Previously, I was on a short vacation visiting my family in the East for the last time this year. It was a rejuvenating journey where I got to re-define my life. The storm was getting better, the tide was lower and the water was calming down.Then,life took me to another chapter where I decided to move temporarily to Bali,Indonesia.

My decision choosing Bali was rather reckless. I don't have much savings to spend nor having a stable job. Not to mention, my status as a student is still undecided until unforeseen future.However, at this point, school is not for me.

I planned moving to Bali precisely about a month earlier where I sorted out accomodation and one way flight by splitting the cost with another digital nomad. I think if you want to be able to afford living around south east asia, splitting a cost could be a great idea.

It was rather smooth transisition. Everything was finely sorted and we have a place to stay until a bit sometime. We've not seen where we would go next, but for sure, we would float around south east asia for now.

We just got back from our seven days trip. During that time,we tried to live as minimum as possible. Not only but, we try to stay within a budget during our stay. Mind you, we are frugal but not cheap.

So, if you want to travel around with a tight budget and want to have maximum fun, you might want to stay tuned with my recommendations.

If you have not been following the news, the Mt. Agung, which was located in Bali was erupting and the ash affected the aviation safety. My travel mate flight was canceled while mine was delayed for about an hour and half.
It was a little bit chaotic because I booked a place to stay for a night and we planned things accordingly. Because this problem, we had to adjust couple of plans such as the hotel booking and the other rental booking. We weren't pleased with the situation but what could we do? it was the nature speaking.

I booked another room for the following day. It was the cheapest one that I could find nearby the airport. I wasn't having much expectation but what I found was a little gem hidden nearby the airport.

I landed in Bali around 3 am, weary and hungry.I initially booked a place to stay but I didn't want to walk just outside the airport and reached the hostel. I was fine with loosing couple of bucks cause that was for the better. I had no energy left walking even it was for 500 meters. The airport was empty and I stayed around praying room to find a shelter before I could walk and got myself a meal, a decent meal.

It was 5 am when I started hearing the airport staffs were preparing before they started their duty. So, I got up and left the praying room to find an open convenient store. The worse thing was, my portable battery and phone were dead. I had no means to contact anyone. So it was a time where I did a lot of monologue and walking around looking afraid and lost.

I visited a convenient store where the cashier was friendly enough helping me find a place to charge my phone. I was staying inside the airport complex about 6 hours before I was too tired and decided to book an online cab, Grab. I thought they weren't available but actually they are. It was rather tricky to find them but you could find them around the car parking lot.

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Much love from the paradise,

macchiata