This is our last morning at Hotel La Taverna, we start the day with some breakfast beside the pool. Then it's back to the room & try to fit all our gear into our bags - I seem to accumulate more items with each move!
My daughter hasn't had her hair washed for at least a week (slack parenting hey?) so we head to Salon Rudy on the main street. Its a proper hair dressing salon & my daughter gets to lay on one of those comfy reclining chairs and has her hair washed with a lovely conditioning massage. I had a wonderful hair creme bath & Hubby had a shave. My hair creme bath was much better than the one I had in a beauty salon a few days ago & quite reasonably priced too.
We still had an hour before the driver was picking us up, so I relaxed on the sun beds on the beach while the kids played with their Dad in the water.
Time for check out & our driver is right on time, very sad to leave La Taverna but excited to be on our way for the next part of our trip.
It's lunch time & we don't want to wait around in a cafe for food, so we go to McDonalds for a quick bite to eat. Our driver had never had it before & we invite him to try some. He has a cheeseburger, not quite sure if he liked it or not, think he was quite overwhelmed by the experience! It's my first crappy junk food meal & I feel horrible in the stomach after....
After lunch we head for our next destination, the Temple Lodge at Bingin. We arrive and are welcomed like old friends - we stayed here in June last year for 3 nights & this time we have 4 nights.
This place is just amazing. Bingin is located on the Bukit Peninsular & the Temple Lodge is right on the cliff top. It is a small lodge, owned by an Italian couple with only about 8 rooms, 2 of which are perched on the edge of the cliff - the Gecko Suite & the Coral Cove Suite. We stay in the Gecko Suite, it has a king size antique 4 poster bed with netting & the kids are up in a loft which they call their tree house.
A massive day bed sits near the cliff edge, a perfect place to watch the surf breaks of Impossibles & Bingin or just read a book. Resident cat 'Mow' likes to curl up for catnap here.
A lovely open bathroom and the shower has a view of the ocean as well! Just make sure you lock away anything of value, including your toiletries as the monkeys live in the cliffs. They can climb into your room and they steal things. One lady had her makeup bag stolen. She watched him climb on the roof, open the bag and he proceeded the hand out pieces of makeup to his twelve friends! She later found her face powder floating in the pool! Everything else was gone.
The grounds are full of beautiful flowers. White, fuchsia, apricot & orange bougainvillea run along the white coral walls.
There is a small communal dining room overlooking the water & a black volcanic rock infinity pool.
A wedding is scheduled for this afternoon & they scatter frangipani over the stone pavers. The setting is just beautiful!
The food is just amazing, so healthy & fresh. People come from surrounding villas just to eat here. One of the owners Cristiana makes her own breads, jams & museli. She also does daily yoga classes. Her husband Mario takes people surfing, snorkeling and fishing.
The communal dinner is a fantastic way to meet people from all over the globe. Dinner is a set menu at 7.30pm every night & is a 3 course meal that changes daily. Our first night was prawn risotto, followed by red thai chicken curry & an asian salad. Dessert was chai ice cream with biscotti. We washed it down with a jug of gin & tonic with ginger and lime.
Time for an early night.... lots of discovering to do tomorrow.
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