my first Bali and Diving

Ok, to be honest this is my first journey to Bali. Ya.. it seems very late, but better to be late than never. I'm going to get PADI Open Water diving lisence, I'll take a diving course. Thanks to my friend Rere, she asked me to go with her for taking diving lisence in Bali. And I said, why not...? Then here the trip began. Rere fly from Timika on Saturday January 22 by Airfast. She spent a night by herself in Bali, because I took off from Jakarta to Denpasar the next morning by Merpati Airlines (I think it was the sampe type of Merpati plane that crashed in Kimana on the next May). We stayed at a nice-clean hotel at Poppies Lane 1 in Kuta. We reserved a four days diving certification at MolaMola Dive Centre in Nusa Dua.

1st day Sunday January 23 - First day just arrived and we're ready for beaches. We're getting around by car, drove by Rere's friend plus Rere's friend's friend. Totally we visited 3 beaches; Lilo, Geger, and Balangan beach. All of those beaches are on Uluwatu direction. We didn't do much activity there, only sight seeing and play around the beach. I wasn't in the mood for swim, because I just arrived this morning. But swimming around is one of the activities you can do in those beaches, don't expect to do snorkelling here. The current is fitter for surfing.

2nd day Monday January 24 - Second day in Bali and first day for my diving certification class. We walk around in Legian before we went to Nusa Dua for our diving class. The first day we only studied in a class room. We're going back to hotel in the afternoon. Then again we're getting around in Legian by walk, before we decided to rent a motorbike (according to Rere), we ended up at a luxurious restaurant in Seminyak.

3rd day Tuesday January 25 - The second day diving class, it took place in a pool. We're practicing what we learnt from the theory yesterday. After class, we rent a car from one of a master dive at our dive centre, he also drove us around. We decided to come back to Balangan and did some more photo sessions :p

4th Wednesday January 26 - The third day of diving class, and finally we're going to the sea. We're going to Nusa Dua for our diving practice, for real now. It's located about 2 km away from Nusa Dua coast, it took less than 15 minutes by boat. It was my very first experience diving in the sea. One word 'AMAZE'.

5th day Thursday January 27 - The forth day and last day of our diving certification class. The MolaMola guys  pick us at our hotel, and took us straight Tulamben. It's about more less one hour driving from Kuta to Tulamben. Tulamben diving spot is a shrink ship from World War II. The last day, and finally we can fill our diving log book. No diving tomorrow, so it's time for late night sleep.

6th day Friday January 28 – First day of no diving-related activity day. We rent a car plus driver to explore more beaches and see more of Bali culture. Spent the morning till noon in Dreamland, lunch at Jimbara, and see more Bali culture in Ubud. What a complete day :D

7th day Saturday January 29 – Yups last day, we’re only walking around Kuta and Legian. Visit to one shop to another, not always buy something. I try a short surfing lesson, which ends with an accident.

Rere fly to Jakarta at 7 pm, and i fly to Timika at 1 am.

So, that was my 7 days holiday in Bali early of 2011. Lot of new stuffs i found here. Definitly i’ll go back here, to do other new cool stuff i didn’t do last time. Gunung Agung, bungee jumping, and Menjangan are still waiting for me :)