A Vacation to Remember Forever Gargi   © Copyright 2022 by Gargi

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After a nearly 18 hour long and tiring journey, we finally landed at the Bali airport. There was a lady named Ms. Wulan, working in a travel agency tied up with that of Daniel Travels, waiting for us at the airport, and escorted us to our hotel. I was literally so exhausted after the flight journey that I straight away headed to my room (which I was sharing with Tori) and slept for a while. My dad called me twice to know the updates, but since I was too busy sleeping, I couldn’t pick up his calls. So, he called Tori and she woke me up in a very annoying manner disrupting my peaceful sleep, but then I talked with my parents and assured them that everything was fine, and then again went to sleep. Three hours passed and I was still sleeping- so my friends got super annoyed with me and did all those awful things to wake me up – and I obviously woke up after that. I freshened up and we were all set to explore Bali. It was around 9 am and we first went to the KICC church for the morning prayers, followed by our visit to one of the biggest temples of Bali- the Besakih temple. Then we headed for Mount Agung, along with Ms. Wulan, who turned out to be a very kind and generous guide for us. The next day we visited Nyaman Gallery and also came across some friendly monkeys at the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary. Then we called the day off and returned to the hotel. The following day we went for sight seeing in Bali, and our guide Ms. Wulan showed us various amazing architectures and narrated many interesting stories as we continued to explore Bali. We were really tired exploring so many things, but I can’t deny the fact that we were also enjoying so much that our joy overpowered our tiredness.

On our fifth day in Bali, we went on exploring different beaches and clicking pictures there to capture the beauty and serene environment around those beaches. At one of the beaches, a thief was trying hard running, disguising and hiding himself as he was being chased by the police for stealing a small figurine embedded with gold and diamonds worth millions. As we were too engaged in enjoying ourselves and playing at that beach, the thief secretly kept the figurine in one of our handbags. When he succeeded in deceiving the police, he came out of his hiding place and started looking for the figurine. Shocked at the moment, he realized that we were gone, and so was the handbag in which he had kept the figurine. He panicked as he received a call from his gang leader asking him to bring the figurine at his den. He shivered with fear thinking how will he face his leader now, so he decided to look for us somehow and get his thing back. He kept roaming on the streets, in search of us when he found us heading towards our hotel. So, he then found out our room numbers and the next day, decided to check each of our rooms to find that bag. All of us now went out to the mall to shop stuffs for ourselves, our parents and our friends, but without our guide because she got stuck with some very urgent work, and since the mall was adjacent to our hotel, we decided to go there. And at that time, he sneaked into their rooms, and again shocked, realized that we took our handbags with us. Here in the mall, when I took out her bag to pay for a traditional Balinese handicraft at the mall, Katty saw something shiny in my bag, and notified me. Then we checked it and found a precious figurine. I, along with my friends, were astonished seeing its beauty and shimmer. We decided to immediately hand it over to the police to avoid ending up in any legal trouble, and informed the local nearby police. As soon as the thief reached the mall, he saw me holding the figurine, so he took out his gun and pointed it on me, threatening me to hand it over to him. I got scared and when I was about to hand it over to him, the police came at the perfect time and arrested the thief. I handed over the figurine to the police and went ahead shopping in the mall. I was still unable to process what ever happened, but anyways we completed our shopping and returned to our hotel.

Our guide came the next day to drop us to the airport, and when she got to know about this incident, got really concerned for us and informed our parents about the same, making them more worried for us than before. But our vacation anyway came to an end and we boarded our flights back to our home. As we were bidding adieu to Bali, all the happy memories as well as that incident were playing in my mind on loop, and we kept on discussing about our vacation throughout our flight- after all it was our first trip together and without our parents, and gave us enough time to rejuvenate and prepare ourselves for a new journey- grade 10^th. It surely was an unforgettable vacation for not only me, but for all of us.