Garden View Cottage
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Garden View Cottage from our 5 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Ubud
Temples, monkeys and bed-busting fatties!
... we’ve booked a shuttle bus and boat to the Gili Islands. We’re getting up at 6.30am to go to Gili Air for a couple of days of snorkelling and relaxing before heading onwards to Lombok. Dee, Becca and Sarah left for Gili Air yesterday so we hope to catch up with them again. Our final night at Depa homestay will be sleeping on the (nice and thick) mattress on the floor as we broke the bed again! Clearly all the Indonesian food has turned us into bed-busting fatties!! ...
U.... Bud and then we did Tanah lot!
... local and asked for his wife to be photographed with her!
We finished the day in Uluwatu, our home for the night also. This hostel was basic (no air con!) but very friendly. We enjoyed a traditional indonesian tea and felt very welcome in the environment.
The following morning we explored Uluwatu coast and enjoyed watching the throngs of surfers take to the waves. A real surfers spot.
Getting a taxi in this place, ...
Wednesday 25 July 2012 – Saturday 29 July 20
... live music in a bar with a bunch of other people which made a change from Kuta where everyone pretty much kept themselves to themselves.
On the recommendation of a guy Helen had spoken with in Kuta, we spent Friday at the Bali Bird Park and Reptilanarium. I wasn’t expecting much but it actually turned out to be really good. Helen had her volunteering hat on so after we’d been there about 15 minutes Helen had a huge Hornbill landing on ...
Mush Into Sticks
... magazine. We used mortars and pestles to grind the ingredients into flavorful pastes. Working that mortar and pestle made me realize why the women here are so good at massage. We also molded the chicken satay mush onto the satay sticks. "This task is traditionally performed by men, as it is a phallic symbol as well as a symbol for war weapons" - Casa Luna Cookbook. So please let me know if you notice any significant changes in my ...
Way down south where bananas grow
... a small stream bed. There was another guy down there looking around, having discovered the place in much the same manner as we did. He was a film maker from Los Angeles named Mitch, and we stood discussing the unusual geometric patterns of the ravine walls. Neither of us, of course, had the least qualification to make competent assessments, but we did anyway, like two guys at a cocktail party trying to impress the same woman. But Mason ...