Monkey Forest Ubud

If you are not fussed on rice fields, monkeys or temples it is best not to read on as Bali is full of all of these(as you will soon find out).

To start off the travel blog I must admit that I am actually writing this in KL about 2weeks late, I will try to remember what has happened as since landing in Bali until now it has really been a …

What a crazy day yesterday!   Indonesian immigration gave our ship some problems so we had to change our itinerary to arrive in Bali 2 days early. Big problem for us as we are meeting our friend Wayan to take 10 of us on a tour. Then we find out that the ship does not dock and we are to be tendered 4 miles and 45 minutes away. So much for …

Allereerst vanuit Gili Trawangan: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We wensen jullie allemaal een mooi en liefdevol 2013 toe vol met fantastische ervaringen!

Na Java zijn wij het water dus overgestoken naar Bali, waar we Kuta zo snel mogelijk hebben verruild voor Ubud. Zo konden we een paar dagen op één plek blijven, zonder elke dag weer een lange rit in …

travel 13,000 miles and join a small group of 10 or so to cycle 22 km of rural Bali...thru rice paddies and back roads and who do I meet to bike the countryside with?? Meet Amanda and Matt from Charlotte. Cool huh.?? .he works for Hendrick Motorsports and they are taking a long awaited honeymoon during a rest of race season. Very cute couple !!!

Finally we are in Bali :-) I looked so forward to this island and here I am :-)


We stayed at "Balila B&B" which we booked upfront over Airbnb. A small B&B runned by Birgit an Austrian woman who lives in Bali since 9 years. It´s a lovely place hidden away from the streetside with a small garden and pond. In the evening you hear …

We arrived early Monday afternoon (1st May) after a great day with Nyoman laughing us all the way to Ubud. Such a happy, friendly character like all Balinese people we’ve met.
He checked a few motels rates for us as we reached the main street of Ubud & we found a great one, right in the center of Monkey Forest Rd. The name is true to …

Set in the middle of Bali, Ubud has no beach and is surrounded by rice paddies and jungle. That doesn't stop it from being one of the most eclectic and calming places in the world. We headed to Monkey forest this morning after a large homemade breakfast of fruit And banana pancakes. Our homestay host is named Praety and runs the guesthouse with her …

The first few days in Ubud consisted of
nothing else but eating in many of the organic food cafés, drinking too much
tea and coffee, and being totally engrossed in Shanteram! On the third day I
decided I had to see something of the town other than the inside of the cafes.
So I …

Becca and I flew into Indonesia with no accommodation booked for the trip. On our flight there, we read up a bit on Indonesia and decided on Ubud because it'd be quieter and central.

After 20 hour flights with transit in Taipei, we landed in the hot and humid Bali. The moment we walked out of the airport, we were greeted by taxi touts. …

As we only have 2 weeks here we thought we'd better get moving to our next destination, Ubud, and we managed to get a ride there with the owner of our hotel (for a hefty fee I might add!) Anyway the drive turned out to be quite informative as the driver was a Dutch guy who gave us a lot of tips and recommendations about places to visit and stay at …

... laid back place to hang. Unfortunately I don't the name of it but it's a reggae bar on the 2nd floor about half way down on Monkey Forest road lit up with x-mas lights across from a Circle K (really not hard to find) If you're interested they have VIP ...

... has an amazing view during the day, it is a little too "jail cell" for our taste at night. We move a bit further up Monkey Forest Road to Lumbung Sari Bungalows. A smidge more expensive, no A/C, but so much nicer and, wait, wait for it.....no ...

... an hour and was worth every penny (although an English penny here is worth about 0.000000588 Rupiahs). Our hotel is a short walk to Monkey Forest Road, home of ..... the Monkey Forest. At the gate I bought a bunch of bananas and have never felt so ...

... and foreigners...and it's not cool at all, just as hot as anywhere.     My favorite place here is the monkey forest...a sanctuary right on the edge of town where you can go hang out with the macaque monkeys.  They accost you before ...

... price of 400,000IDR or about £25 for the entire day!     Walking down the main street of Ubud from our accommodation we reached Monkey Forest, which, as the name suggests, is a forest full of wild monkeys (or macaques). As soon as we ...

... is much more traveller-friendly. There are many shops if you're looking for art/sculpture/etc. We took a walk down to the "Monkey Forest Reserve" where Sarah made a friend. Yes, a monkey friend, and Sarah didn't even have to give him food. Today ...

... to the artsy upcountry town of Ubud for a change of pace and scenery. One of the blockbuster sights in Ubud is the Monkey Forest, which is a pretty forest with stone pathways meandering throughout, a few Hindu temples, and full of cute wild monkeys ...

... are stifling me into an early death. Would it be culturally acceptable if I stripped naked and ran the length of Monkey Forest Road while smiling townspeople doused me with freezing cold water? " In retrospect, the answer was probably "No". ...

... it worked.....I'll be double checking my bank balance again though. So after all that we got our tickets and headed for the monkey forest on the edge of town. After James' previous run in with monkeys we were a little nervous of entering "their domain" ...

... I return. Ohh also, I spent a few hours yesterday in a high-speed internet cafe, and uploaded a bunch of the pics i took at the Monkey Forest, so you can go back into that entry if you'd like and check'em out.  I uploaded some more pics into some ...