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Travel Blogs from Ubud
A Suckling Pig a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Finally, we made it. Sharon may have been dreaming about beaches in the last few months at work, but this was my dream. Ever since I watched the Rick Stein series when he came to SE Asia I knew I wanted to come to this particular place. Why you may ask, well the answer is simple. There is a restaurant here that serves one dish, and that dish is …
Back to Ubud
... morning we decide to do one of the walks around Ubud. Although we wake up very early, the heat is already killing us. You should not start a walk by 9 AM but by 7 AM here! In the Ubud palace small children are being tought the traditional Balinese dances. Very cute. We quickly find the track, heading for the rice paddies and get into an interesting conversation with four young guys from Nusa Dua on the southeast coast. Our path leads us along the 'gold coast' of Ubud: on the one ...
Ubud and Monkey Forest
We all did Balinese massages in the morning at the hotel. In the afternoon we walked through Ubud to check out the shopping and the Monkey Forest. Monkey Forest is a pretty park where packs of unruly monkeys hang out waiting for food. There are signs all over that say don't feed the monkeys, but locals sell food so that tourists can feed the monkeys. Monkeys will attack tourists if they smell food on them – we saw it happen a couple of times. ...
A long way round
... lanes. We were actually stuck in a jam for 15 minutes because the stupid coach in front of us cannot move due to cars parked at the side of the roads. Grrr.... Dinner was at Sawah Indah which as the name suggests is surrounded by picturesque paddy fields, but seeing that we are having dinner there, all we see is .... nothing. I quipped to Abah that they should call it Sawah Gelap for dinner guests. We were the only ones there, but later when we were finishing another group ...
PARLER INDONESIEN
... j'erre... Le tout au cours de transports en commun locaux,de lieux communs (!). Apres bientot deux mois de ce traitement, de retour en France, quelques sessions au laboratoire de langue de Beaubourg (gratuit). Puis les sejours repetes. Le bahasa indonesia s'avere plutot aise pour le debutant. Grammaire reduite : des adverbes indiquent le temps (passe, present, futur), les verbes eux, sont invariables. Pas mal non ? Pas de ...