Adventures in Southeast Asia

As promised at the beginning of our trip, here's a post with more details on Changi Airport in Singpore.  Apparently rated the number one airport in the world there's certainly a HUGE array of things to do here, free and not so free. After a relatively quick two and a half hour flight from Bali, we arrived at Changi around 6pm.  Our first order of business was to check our bags so we didn't have to lug them around with us for five hours.  We were able to do this pretty seamlessly in about a five minute walk from our gate for about $8 USD.  Once our bags were secure, we headed out in search of food.   On our first trip through Changi we'd notice a second floor street food food court and there was a dish that we'd missed during our trip through Singapore, so we decided to start there.  We ended up with a meal of mussels, fried rice, boiled eggs, and the missing dish, carrot cake, which isn't at all what we think of as carrot cake.  It's l...

I'd tried to arrange our short time in Bali such that we would have the last day and half pretty free to do what we wanted.  We woke up Tuesday morning, lounged around and had breakfast and decided to spend the early part of our day in Seminyak .  Seminyak is a really busy town full of stores, vendors, restaurants and bars.  It's kind of tourist central, but we knew we wanted to do some shopping and this was a great central spot to do so. Unlike Yogyakarta, which is a predominantly Muslim community, Bali is predominantly Hindu.  You find these small offerings on doorsteps and driveways of nearly every home. We took a Grab into town and browsed around the stores.  We actually ended up walking down a side street that dumped us back at the Motel Mexicola , the restaurant recommended to us on our first night by our Grab driver.  Unfortunately, that night the restaurant had been crazy busy and we'd ended up at Shirmp Is, which I wrote about i...