Hi, it’s Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com. I’m currently sitting in this beautiful location in Bali. I’m actually in my resort right now and I just wanted to share some really interesting things that I’ve learned just from being in Bali for the these last few days. This is pretty much near in the end of my trip and I’ll be heading back in Australia very soon but for the people out there, this is rather than a technical it’s going to be anything about outsourcing. Today, I just want to share with you more about holiday tips and things that I’ve learned along just coming through Bali.

Now, I just want to ride through three tips about the things that I recommend doing and also just keeping your eye up while you’re traveling. These are more or less travel tips if you want to say, part of the lifestyle kind of thing about what I talk about on my blog. So the first thing I want to just share with you is when I first arrived in Bali, I arrived in the evening around about the 9:30 kind of mark. About 9:30 to about midnight, it’s actually peak time and something that I learned and I realized was if you come on a peak time, it’ll take you very, very long time just to check out and even get your visa completed at the airport.

It took us about an hour and a half to be able to get out of the airport once we arrived. So you don’t want to get into that if you choose to arrive in Bali like that. So one thing I recommend doing is trying to arrange the flight around about mid morning to about afternoon. That’s when is the quietest time to come in. And, to get your visa is a pretty big thing. If you don’t have a visa before you actually come in, you can bide on the spot but to get on the spot and get through all those lines is just humongous and the lines and the cues are really very long. But once you get passed that visa part, the visa part was probably say three quarters of the time and then ten minutes left to just pickup your luggage and catch a cab. That’s how long it took.

I think if I count it correctly, there are over a thousand people that arrived to the airport. And because the terminal was quite small, it took a while to get out. So tip number 1 is just to arrive into Bali or any location probably around about the mid morning to about afternoon time. That way, you can avoid all the cues and enjoy your trip a lot more.

Second tip, I just want to provide for you is just make sure that when you, before you hop onto to any cab or going to any truck or van that you take, negotiate and agree on a certain price because what I found is that they have one price for meter, and one price just to take you to one location. And, if you’re staying at a hotel or staying somewhere that is quite nice as well, they’ll put a surcharge on top of that and you’ll be expected to pay extra 20 to 30% on top of what you expected to pay normally.

So what I would suggest to you is if you’re going to catch a cab, say for example from your hotel, don’t ask your hotel to get you a cab because what they’ll do is they’ll charge you to double the price. Just walk outside which is what I did. Two minutes outside of a hotel and just wave for a cab and they’ll just give you a definite price.

And to get that, you’ll probably see…let’s just say for example, if you’re getting from say Nusa Dua all the way over to Kuta, it’ll probably cost you at most 80,000 in a van or a taxi. So just keep that in mind, and that’s 80,000Rp which is roughly about $10 AU or about $9 US. So that’s one thing that I recommend, second tip is just to make sure you negotiate and you agree on one certain price.

Then the last thing I want to recommend you to do, the third final point is just make sure you buy your own water because your body might not be used to the water that you have, drinking around the local water and you may get certain stomach problems. So I highly recommend if you’re going to travel, just buy bottled water all the time because bottled water is usually refined and purified in the factories before they get shipped out and put into the bottles. Once you’ve done that, then you should be safe. And, the bottled water at most probably say 20c if you want to look at in terms of dollars but it’s very cheap to buy. You can buy bottles and bottles of it.

That’s that we’ve done, we just bought bottles and bottles of water and just drunk purified water from the bottles. That’s very safe and obviously I’m still sitting here right now.

Yeah, so that’s the last three tips I wanted to give you — three tips that I highly recommend before you do travel and also during your travel just to prepare those things and make sure that you’ll have it beating on hand. So I’ve had an excellent trip and I’m really excited to come back home also as well but I’m not looking forward to coming back to cold weather. The weather here is roughly about 25 to about 30 degrees, it’s beautiful tropical weather, location’s great. You’ll probably hear the kids running in the background where I’m staying but what I’m doing right now is just relaxing and having a great time. I just want to spend a few minutes just to share with you what I’m currently doing.

So, I’ll talk to you soon once I get back to Australia. And, hopefully there you’ve got anything that you want to leave — feedback, comments, your experiences probably if you’ve come to Bali as well, this is my first time so I’ve been really, really enjoying and having a really, really relaxing time and spending time with the beach, been also shopping and also checking a lot of tours as well and been doing a lot of exciting things. Today for me, we went on rafting so it’s pretty much adventure day for me today. All right, any feedback, any comments, just leave it right below here and I’d love to hear your stories as well if you’ve been to Bali.

That’s it for me today, have a great one and I’ll catch you soon. Bye for now!