Shopping in Seminyak

Finally - shopping! We walked to the next town North of us here in Kuta - Seminyak - which is known for being fancy and having loads of fabulous shops and restaurants, high-end hotels. It's a bit of a treacherous walk, there are not many sidewalks in Bali and there's a surplus of mopeds whipping about your ankles at any given time. But we haven't been hit yet...knock, knock.

Anomali Coffee

Silly us, we took directions from an Indonesian again and wound up far from our desired destination. However, we found some beautiful paved stone alley ways and even a few rice paddies!

After a few hours of shopping we break for coffee. We are very pleasantly surprised to stumble upon a Western style coffee shop (there are virtually no coffee shops in Indonesia because all the restaurants serve it), with magazines, air conditioning, ample seating and amazing coffee. Thank you Anomali! You can choose which Indonesian country you'd like your beans from, and then how you want it prepared: French press, drip, or something known as a wood neck. They roast beans on site, and offer Luwak coffee for your discerning palette.

Pretty rice paddy

More shopping, followed by dinner at a new restaurant: Locale. The Bali Hai beer was awful and flat, stick to Bintang. The food, however, was amazing. For $1.70 we caught a cab back to Legian and took a late night swim in the pool - not a bad day!