Planning, planning and more planning

We've arrived in Bali with no plan of how we are spending the next two weeks. The only thing we do know is the area we are in right now is far too touristy for our liking to stay long than our 3 nights we booked. We needed to look into the island and other islands around and make a decision of what we want to do while here. The wifi at our hotel is very slow and poor so we decided to do our planning at Starbucks, the only place we plan. With teas in hand we researched heavily and after a few hours have divided our two weeks between staying on two different Gili islands and then coming back to Bali and staying in the capital for the last few days before our flight. We've been booking accommodation in Australia and are unable to afford anything that nice because it's so expensive so with that in mind we've booked into somewhere a bit nicer and slightly higher in price for our time in the capital. We want a little last taste of luxury before our cheap Australia places. After a successful planning trip and some lunch we went on a walk up the beach which has a strong surfing scene and a heavy amount of washed up coral on the beach which was a shame. It feels like a beach that's been run down by tourists and we wouldn't want to swim there or anything so we simply walked up the sand and headed back on the streets when we could. Our walk took us in search of a new supermarket that sells bigger bottles of water so we spent a good 2 hours visiting two different stores across town. Sadly no big water but it felt good to be out and be walking even if you are talked to by shop owners every 10 seconds or beeped at by taxis that you clearly don't want. There are many horse and carts here to pull tourists around but all the horses look so depressed and exhausted without water which has become upsetting to see and there's no way we will ever be using one. We headed to an Indian restuarant for tea and I ordered a korma as it had no meat in it and Nick had a red curry. Unfortunately mine was so incredibly hot, even with more yoghurt I couldn't eat it and it had no bearings of what a korma is or anything like they had described on the menu. Nick's was even worse and tasted as if it contained about a ladle full of salt and he had to send it back so luckily he ate mine instead. We didn't want to risk another so we decided I'd get a pizza afterwards from another place we'd seen. Luckily and rightly so we weren't charged for the salty curry. It was a bit of a shame but then again I had a great pizza after instead so all's well that ends well.Read more