Travel Diary Indonesia - Day 2

Got up early as our Taxi was supposed to pick us up at Ruslan’s at 8 a.m. Oka was our friendly driver who drove us to Padang Bai, a 2 hour journey dotted with a wonderful balinese breakfast, an unsuccessful shopping stop and tons of interesting conversations! Oka took us to a local school canteen instead of a conventional warung (small restaurant) and his wife served us freshly made “Utte” (a flat vegetable bajjji like thing) which was excellent with our red chilli karam podi! In the car later, Vishu tried to give Oka a crash course in website creation when he told us that he had five kids and needs to gain customers! We plan to help him out when we return to Bali on the 17th.

When we reached Padang Bai, we were hustled into a public office where we booked our tickets to Senggigi. We were told to hurry as the ferry would leave in 10 minutes, but the Indonesians seem to follow our concepts of time as well. 10 mins turned out to be 45 mins after which we waited another 1 hour for the ferry to actually leave the port! So I suppose we felt right at home! :) 

 

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Travel Diary Indonesia - Day Zero

V - For our first day in Bali, me and Sruti Akka will be hosted by a lovely Russian couple, Ruslan and Katerina. They asked us if we could cook a nice Indian meal for them. So we, brilliant cooks that we are, have decided to make them a traditional Telugu meal of dosa and karam and also some rasam to wash it down. Now, this posed a minor conundrum because neither of us are very good at it! So we decided to practice and learn from the masters – Amma and Yvonne aunty. Whether we succeeded in this quest or not is besides the point but we had a load of fun.