Considering where I live, to me Bali is not such an exotic destination.  I mean, Kota Kinabalu in Sabah is exotic in her own right, so Bali doesn’t excite me as much as it would if I had never been to Kota Kinabalu.

Nevertheless, today we are jetting off to beautiful Bali, Indonesia. Well, sort of.

“Oh”, you might say,  “you’re taking advantage of AirAsia’s new direct flights from KK to Bali, right?”  And I would have to say “err… no.”

Truth is, we are flying on AirAsia, and the flights are dirt cheap.  However, they are as cheap as they are because we booked this holiday last year September already.  Unfortunately, last year September there wasn’t even a rumour about the direct flights from Kota Kinabalu to Bali yet.

Actually, we were supposed to go in March, but then the Malaysian elections came up and Julia, being the award winning journalist that she is, had her leave frozen to cover it.  We managed to change the flights and we got 30 April.  Little did we know then that the new direct flights would launch May 2.

Flight changes on AirAsia being as expensive and pointless as they are, we didn’t bother to change it again and thus, this evening we are jetting off to Kuala Lumpur and tomorrow morning to Bali.

Beyond having read copius amounts about beautiful Bali, we have made no other arrangements. Yes, this holiday, we are winging it.  It suits me fine.  I anticipate no culture shock in Bali as the people and language is vaguagly similar to Malaysia, and Bali aparently more so compared to Sabah – so to give the holiday that little edge of adventure, we’re going in blind.

On the agenda we have a few nights in Kuta, Nusa Lembongan – an island off Bali – for a bit of diving, Ubut to absorb some arts and crafts and back to Kuta for a pre-return breather.

We’ll have to see how it goes, but it has fun written all over it.