Ubud Hanging

... for 15 years and live just outside of San Francisco. We are a double income no kids couple who loves food, entertaining, and hanging out. We're not sure how it evolved, but we know we enjoy the challenges of vagabonding. Our first long-term adventure ...

... on Bali and is famous for its artist colony - even Western European painters have found a home in these magical surroundings. Ubud Hanging gardens consists of about 30 villas on the slope of a mountain overlooking an old Buddhist temple. Each villa ...

... even a pathway that wound down thru the rest of the property with houses along the raised river pathway across a hangbridge through the hanging roots of a mature relic looking mangrove tree then up a few concrete steps and into the backside of town - ...

... afterlife that showed what could happen to people who didn't live a decent life. Worryingly when we asked why there were a few people hanging upside down from a tree we were told that they were people who chose not to have kids!    ...

... to rise out of the lake.  Again, the overcast skies didn’t allow the proper lighting for great pictures, and fog was hanging around the area.  Still, the fog lifted long enough for a few quick snapshots before we left. We then make the 1 ...

... Jones. There's these statues carved into the rock on 2 sides of the river in between. There's these amazing trees again with vines hanging down, this ace bridge across the river and the river is amazing too. Probably best to just look at the photos but it ...

... Sanctuary which is on one of the main roads of Ubud.  There were quite a few macaques that had left the park and were hanging out in front of it.  We didn't bother with pictures because we knew we would be going to this park another day. ...

... ; at the edge of the lava field -paying the woman to look after the car- and brushing off offers to guide by the few sleepy locals hanging about by saying we were just going for a walk and off we went.   We were soon lost in the mounds of hot, ...

... takes you down a steep winding track, across the rocky river, and up some even steeper stairs with huge tropical looking spiders hanging in their webs to a large secluded temple courtyard where two men greeted and welcomed us. The temple is not part of ...

... . They looked equally impressive in the shop as they did flying high up in the air. There were many local guys just hanging around shop either chatting or sleeping but when they saw a tourist, they immediately jumped in to action and called out ...

... of dances and we picked the one called Legong Dance & Ramayana (80,000Rp/about £5.70) at Ubud Palace.  We bought the tickets from the guys hanging around outside and sat down the plastic chairs in the 4th row.  There is a story line about ...

... another bemo do 10minutes and into another terminal where theres 20 bemos and drivers standing around.Get out of the bemo,ask the blokes hanging round which bus goes to Kandi?......NO! not from here,no bus unless you "charter" a special one for 20,000 ...

... with crossed legs discussing what seemed to be very profound notions as they all looked at each other with great intensity, hanging on each others every word and nodding in agreement. In between converstaions some would stop and mediatate, while others ...

... promptly picked it up and started sucking on it!  Poor Benji was distraught..... Following the monkey forest experience we hit Ubud market.  The children learnt all about how many rupiah there are to a pound and loved spending their 80,000 ...

... flowers, fruit and incense burning.  No wonder these folks are all smiles, they are living in paradise! Ok, it's 8pm and I'm barely hanging on (this is the time I usually goto bed).  I arrived in town, had some tea with my Guest House host ...

... don't visit. It was a dark little store with all sorts of unusual edibles, all wrapped in clear plastic. The Dodols were tied on a string, hanging out in the open air. I bought 5 of them for the equivalent of a dollar and change. Later on I opened one and ...

... a liking to our fivesome. The band kept asking us to get on stage and sing with them, but we just wanted to dance! After hanging out there for several hours we decided we wanted to go swimming. Unfortunately none of us had a pool at our hotel, but the ...

... set around garden courtyards. Eva and I check out a few and opt for Teba House with its garden of frang-y-pani, epiphytes and hanging orchids. It's cheap and peaceful, bar the cockerel crows and the hum of my laundry on spin cycle. In the midday sun, ...

... , we decided to change our flight to leave from Bali, and miss out Java completely. Walking through Ubud it almost looks like a film set, lanterns hanging everywhere, chic little shops, chilled out restaurants and lush rice paddies. In fact the town had ...