 finally back in the US after being away for more than eight months traveling around the world this was my longest adventure ever and the last country I was in was Indonesia where I hosted my first group trip it was a dream come true ten wonderful people joined me to explore the beautiful island of Bali together where we spent eight days enjoying everything that Bali has to offer we hiked snorkel visit temples did a lot of climbing and it honestly exceeded every expectation I had about Bali and I couldn't have asked for a better group trip my next group trip is happening in January of 2024 in Egypt and then right after that February 2024 in Iceland so if you are interested in joining me on an epic adventure check the first comment in this video with detailed itineraries and if you're interested in tagging along be sure to request your spot as soon as possible and take advantage of a reduced price right now Indonesia was the last country I was in and for eight months when I was traveling around the world I couldn't really buy any souvenirs because with 40 liras backpack it's kind of hard to find space and so when I was in Indonesia I decided to do some shopping before I wrap up my adventure and when I was there right before heading to the airport I asked a local lady about a good place to go shopping she suggested a mall and I was like okay thank you but I'm not really interested in going to a mall to shop for souvenirs or there's a taxi just to go somewhere else but then the taxi driver ended up suggesting the exact same place but this time he explained to me that it's not a typical mall as we know it with generic international brands but rather it's a complex with a lot of local handmade souvenirs at very reasonable prices and so I decided to give it a try and so today I want to share with you everything that I bought from Bali I did a similar video about things I bought from Morocco in the past and a lot of you guys enjoyed it so I hope that you enjoyed this one as well this is the name of the mall if you are in Bali I highly recommend going there even if you're not interested in shopping just go in there for the experience it was fantastic plus there were not any Western travelers there it felt as if it was mostly for people coming to Bali from other parts of Indonesia if not other surrounding countries they have so many things clothing articles snacks beauty products it was fantastic and I was so overwhelmed because I am not a big fan of shopping in general so my strategy when I was there was to just follow what everyone else is doing and it worked it worked very well this is shirt that we got for Alex it just looked like a nice shirt for mid-season here in the Bay area it's not really cold right now not really warm he felt really nice it fit very well they do have a lot of articles of clothing for men women and kids especially if you are interested in buying real traditional Indonesian clothes usually in Bali if you want to enter a temple you have to be covered by wearing a serang so you can find those there you can find the head wraps and the head that Indonesian men usually wear in important occasions and then the tops that women would wear alongside with the serangs for ceremonies beautiful colors beautiful options and mostly the prices are really good okay so okay this is interesting because at first I had no interest in buying pies but then I noticed that everyone there was grabbing big numbers of these pies so I saw this family they grabbed like not one not two but like ten dozens of them and so I was like they must be really good so these are called pie susu and this seemed like they had so many brands actually available at the mall but this is the one brand that everyone was crazy about and when I look at it first I thought it looks kind of close to pastel de nata in Portugal but when I tasted it it didn't taste like that so it's all right for my liking personally I think it would go nice with morning coffee or morning tea I ended up grabbing two gifts to the one already and I'm still left with one and let me know by the way because I don't know if this is particular to Indonesia or it's pretty common around Asia because they were certainly a lot of other agents visiting and they were just crazy about it so yeah so this is one and then because they have other brands I'm like wow this this must be really good I'm gonna get more I was just going crazy I was getting influenced by everyone else so I was like well I'm gonna buy more so about more buy susu other brand haven't tried this one yet but I also grabbed some chocolate I love the packaging I think the black and golden red it's just fantastic and it's a great representation of Asia in my mind and by the way Indonesia is the first country I visit in proper Asia so I was fascinated all the time and I just felt like this country opened my eyes to really wanting to explore other parts of Asia I don't know what country I will be seeing next in Asia I really don't I don't know but I'm really excited to travel in that part of the word again but this is a set with the chocolate bars one two three four five them goodness of the archipelago so we bought this one as a gift for our neighbors I'm super excited for that I think they will like it and snacks got some mangoes I try to pick things that are local or ingredients that I would see around the island so mangoes were pretty calm as I was like you know what we're gonna try some dried mangoes this is I grabbed this one for Alex because he likes dried mangoes and this one is more on the spicy side I'm honestly not a big fan of spicy food in general but that coated in sugar so I have a feeling it would be more bearable so a dried mangoes and then snakeskin fruit chips I just grabbed them because I was very curious and I just tried them a little bit ago when I filmed the first take but my camera wasn't working when I thought it was recording and this it tastes really good it has a citrusy taste to it not really sweet not salty at all because I feel like maybe it's salty but this was really good I think this is a favorite for me so far and I got some peanuts I tried something similar to this when I was still in Bali and oh my gosh it was amazing it wasn't the exact brand and I can't even tell you what's in there because I don't know how to read the language but it felt like I want to say roasted peanuts but it felt more like fried peanuts even though I don't know if it's really a thing and then it's just mixed with a bunch of spices and herbs I can see that there's a green leaf right here if you guys can see it I don't know what that is if you know please let me know in the comments but I'm hoping that this is going to be a good snack that I can probably take with me on the trail on a hike soon because I haven't hiked in a very long time these are popular coffee beans in Bali Luwak and before you consume these beans they are actually digested by this cute animal right here and they are valuable in Indonesia they're very common so I decided to give it a try and oh my gosh I can smell the beans are very very strong Arabica Bali coffee I think I will keep this one for ourselves and we'll give it a try and we'll let you guys know on our Instagram stories if you're not following us already on Instagram check tracking pals on Instagram I will be sharing with you updates about how it tastes okay they do have a lot of beauty products too this set handmade natural soap coconut base two pieces and you can see the frangipani right here when you're traveling in Bali you will see these flowers almost everywhere and I just love grabbing them smelling them and putting them on my hair it's really cute they have a map of Bali right here a set of two 80 gram each and it's Jasmine I'm a big fan of Jasmine so I'm gonna go with Jasmine more bars more soap because why not this is also frangipani I thought this one was cute with this little fake flower right here it's usually white with yellow in the middle like this is this is how you see it around Bali but this is this is cute so I will be keeping some of these for myself and I will be gifting some to friends and family more so because apparently apparently we love soap so this one though is an exfoliating luffa soap which is more of a bar with the built-in luffa I've never seen anything like this but I tell you I'm really excited to try and see and see if it's really fun to use so two of these and on the beauty product side I picked a body butter because moisturize it is important and this one is white mask I always love the smell of white mask and how it feels in your body usually with perfume so we'll give this one try and see if it's any good and see a more soap all right this is this is getting pretty funny like a lot of so okay so soap soap is how you say soap in Arabic I was surprised to see here and actually most of these edible products are labeled as halal because in Tunija 90% of the country identifies as Muslims and but in Bali though in the island of Bali it's mostly Hindus but even around Bali you will find restaurants and markets that cater to people who eat halal so a lot of these products are labeled as halal but I was so surprised to see the soaps labeled as halal I'm like are we eating soap now what is happening but anyway so three bars here frangipani and jasmine and I hope this was the last set of soap because otherwise this is becoming embarrassing in sense because you cannot go to Bali and not get in sense it's this package has 100 sticks without like how to fit 100 of them right here so we'll have to open it and see okay so this was a surprise to me when you're walking around you will find small containers square shaped with a bunch of flowers and crackers and sometimes incense and these are offerings that the Hindus would make in the morning maybe throughout the day too but you will find them everywhere in front of almost every store all the houses the temples they are beaches they are literally everywhere and you have to be careful because sometimes they are on the road as you are walking be careful to not step on them because that that's disrespectful I mean don't do it intentionally if it happens by accident it happens but these are offerings that the Hindus offer to the gods for blessings and spiritual connection so this will be nice to burn around the house there are a few things here that I actually picked later on from the airport is like last-minute purchases I don't really remember exactly which ones but this one right here is lemon grass tea I was actually sick when I was in Indonesia for a good amount of time the second half of the trip and the climate is very different it was very different for me it's unlike anything that I've experienced before it was very humid more humid than I had imagined and so I think one of the things that got me sick was moving from like really hot temperature when you're outside in a veteran all day and then you go to your hotel room and usually the AC is on blown to the fullest and just going from extreme hot extreme cold cause some sort of shock to my body and I was not feeling well so you know taking easy make sure that the room temperature and the outside temperature kind of the same just for you to adjust keys the first few days but anyway when I was sick and I would ask for drinks or tea from hotels or whatever they would offer me lemon grass tea with the ginger and honey and I really loved it so when I saw lemon grass tea I was like oh you know what I'm gonna get it because I need a good reminder of the good old days when I was sick in Bali because something that looks like chili sauce but I know it's not chili sauce it's sambal sambal is this spicy mixture or spicy sauce please correct me if I don't understand what this is but this is something I thought Alex would enjoy I don't really know how I'm going to use it to be honest but I'm thinking maybe serve it with an omelet or maybe some breakfast tacos or if you have other suggestions please let me know because I am the ignorant tourists okay buddy butter from fresh mango yummy that sounds good so mango local ingredients I really try to pick a lot of any ingredients that are related to things that I see a lot around the island like coconut or mango lemon grass you know just like local local ingredients and I got two sets of these cute Buddha statues with the diffusers I don't remember what fragrance this was probably frangipani again I got a set for myself and then I got a set as another set as a gift and I thought it would be a nice thing to just like small nice statue that you can put out there to remind you of the beautiful times in Bali and finally coconut flakes dried coconuts because when I was in Bali every day I would have or not not when I was with the group but later on I would have dragon fruits smoothie balls every day and they are so good so delicious you can feel and taste how fresh every fruit was and I loved how they add coconut flakes almost every smoothie ball so I thought I'm going to recreate the smoothie balls when I get home and grab myself some coconut so this is everything that I got from Bali and I just want you to know everything that I spent at the mall this mall this is the name of the mall I will also share information about the exact location on Google Maps because I want you guys to know whether you are shopping or you're just visiting I want you to know because just being there you will really enjoy how the building the mall looks like and the Indonesian architecture and design and just like you know seeing people out there shopping enjoying an experience in Bali it was just fantastic I really loved my time in there and it cost me about 944,000 Indonesian rupiah so that's less than 1 million rupiah which I believe is around like 60 to 65 US dollars which is a very very good price if you are if you want to buy a lot of gifts and souvenirs for yourself and you love mine I think this is a good option good place to check out this is everything for today hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you guys in the next one bye