AOE: "Bebek Tepi Sawah", Ubud.

"Tourists don't know where they've been, Travelers don't know where they're going."

- Paul Theroux

Bali is always be the most favorite destination in Indonesia for international or domestic tourist. I and my friend chose it for our holiday as my girlfriend is also originally from there. Even though Bali is my girlfriend's hometown, we randomly went to some new places without observing it first. Once we decided to have a lunch at "Bebek Tepi Sawah" in Ubud. It is known for its beautiful scenery. It has a rice field decorating the place. We could walk through it because there is a way splitting it. It is really beautiful as people say.

Beautiful scenery that "Bebek Tepi Sawah" has makes its price of foods quite expensive especially for us. We didn't bring much money because we planned to travel in backpacker way. Forcefully we just ordered some beverages there. We canceled our lunch moment and chose to take some pictures there. Our hungry stomach didn't stop us enjoying the place. We never regret to visit this place. As Paul Theroux says, "Tourists don't know where they've been, Travelers don't know where they're going." I think we just applied that aphorism in this journey. Hehe.. 

AOE: A little journey to Daulatabad fort.

Daulatabad fort, 2011.

Hello, How are you doing? As you can see from the picture above, I'm not gonna share about Sydney here but India. There are so many differentiation between those two. If Sydney uses their high-technology to support their attractions, India uses their own nature and temples as their attractions with ordinary support, I mean the transportation is not that high-technology generally. The picture above was taken in Daulatabad fort, India in 2011. I and my friends experience something quite amazing.

Daulatabad fort is a 14th-century fort city in Maharashtra, India. It is about 16 kilometers northwest of Aurangabad. You could take a bus from Aurangabad to the fort like pictures below. It spent approximately an hour and it was very cheap like below 50 rupees (2011).

The bus that can take you to the fort.

The bus from the inside. It was comfort enough to take this bus.

As I told you before, the transportations in India are not that high-tech generally even though New Delhi has a Metro (underground train) that I think is good enough. But, it is not matter if the transportations are high-tech enough or not as long as we have a passion to travel and as long as the attractions are undoubtedly amazing. It is cheap though. So, now I want to show you some pictures of Daulatabad fort. Here they are.

We looked around in the fort. It is pretty big enough to be explored. We took a walk for couple hours inside it. There are also white monkeys around it. You could take a picture with the monkeys but be careful because they used to take our bag for food. By the way, I succeed to do it and I did it with their king! Why do I know that it was the king? Because it was the biggest monkey among the others. Here is the picture.

And one more thing, when we was looking around inside the fort, suddenly a bunch of local people gathered and asked us especially my friend from Bulgaria, Katya, to take a picture with them. We was shocked and laughed at Katya because of it. Maybe the reason was Katya was the only one non-Asian tourist among us. Haha.. Forgive us, Katya.

So, How is it? Is it worth enough considering the ordinary transportation as I told you? Is is worth enough to be in your list?

AOE: New Year's Eve in Sydney.

Spending New Year's Eve moment in Sydney is one of the most favorite itinerary that travelers usually do. That is what I and my gf did. Australian government, especially Sydney, spent so much dollars to make this great event annually. It becomes their strategy to attract overseas tourist to come to Sydney. The result is no doubt. A massive tourist waves attack Sydney every New Year's Eve. Million of people fill every point. They were willing to wait from the very early day like 24 hours before the show. They built a tent at the point they stood by. In welcoming 2015, Sydney's NYE carried "Inspire" theme with light bulb effect.

SYDNYE to 2015

At the end of the show, we just could say 'WOW'. It was really stunning, breath-taking, or whatever. We had not ever seen firework like that. It is worth it to witness the event at least once in your lifetime. We would not regret that moment obviously even though we must walk to the nearest station to go back home after all. (it was not that near actually, it was like 2 or 3 kilometres far away).

Thank you for reading my blog! See you on another journey!