Super crazy busy Seminyak

As the last stop on our amazing trip through Bali and Lombok, we decided to spend a few days in Seminyak, Bali, mostly to see what the fuss is all about. 

This is the #1 destination in Bali on TripAdvisor (ok, Seminyak prob earned this title because so many people come here - hence, it get loads of votes) and we felt like we kind of had to see south of Bali too.

But the journey here was way longer than I expected. We left our hotel in Senggigi in the morning, got dropped of at the harbour and got on the fast ferry.

The annoying part of this trip is that the boat stops at Gili Air and Gili Trawangan on the way, to drop off and pick up more people. Because of this the whole boat ride is, of course, longer. I dont know if it's because of the fact that it's low season now, but we couldn't even find a fast boat that went to Sanur (the much more closer harbour choice if you're heading to Seminyak) so instead we got to Padang Bai. Here a shuttle bus waited and with horrible traffic it took ages for us to get to Seminyak. 

But 8 hours after we left our hotel in Senggigi, we were finally there and what's the first thing I see when I get of the bus? A magazine with a vegan resto ad!

We quickly checked in to our hotel, dropped of our bags and went straight to one of the places we saw in the magazine - Happy Falafel.

I don't know if it was because I was starving after not been eating anything all day, or if it really was one of the best falafel (and hummus) places I've been to.

Here they'll give you a pita bread with falafel and you get to fill it yourself with whatever veggies and sauces you prefer from their amazing salad bar.

Giving a hungry vegan free access to hummus, means that it won't be much less for anyone else..

Three layers of hummus and loads of different veggies later I didn't even see the falafels in the bread anymore. It was more like a veggie overly stuffed pita with loads of hummus and falafel in the bottom - but oh my falafel it was gooooood!

Other than the falafel and the vegan friendly food I must admit, though, that Seminyak isn't really my cup of tea - something I really noticed when we walked down the busy road with crazy traffic, to find the even more crazy packed Double 6 beach. Trash and tourists as far as the eye could see and everything is way more pricey here than other places we've been in Bali.

But okay, I'm not gona complain, we did kind of expect this and chose to come here. And even though this doesn't even feel like Bali it has it's sweet spots. Plus, the sunset was beautiful and Double 6 beach is MASSIVE. From here you can see Kuta (which is even more crazy busy than Seminyak) and easily walk there along the beach.

But does it deserve to be #1 on TripAdvisor? Nah, not so much. This is way too westernized and busy to earn that ranking. But we're gonna have a great time here anyway :)