Ubud, Bali

The next day was only swimming pool day and little shopping (couple of vests for Steve). We decided to stay four nights mostly because of our lovely pool and that it was so peaceful in there. The last day wasn’t too different to the previous one. We gave another chance to the beach but soon after pictures we headed back to our home base. The close by streets became familiar since we walked around them at nights. After the last night, we woke up early to check out and go to eat something more than just a pancake. We had seen in couple of places advertising shuttle buses to Ubud for 60 000 so we went to ask for timetables.. We booked one for 1 o’clock so we had almost two more hours by the pool!

The minibus picked up other people almost an hour but the trip itself was only like an hour and a half or so.. The bus dropped us of not in the center so we had to walk on the Monkey Forest road. It wasn’t too far tho! We went to check couple of hotels but weren’t impressed with their pools at all! On the third one we settled to pay 175 000 night so we just took it. We arrived in Ubud around 4 o’clock and went to eat and walked to the center and tourist info. We bought tickets to this local Kedac dance show and went to watch that at 7pm. It wasn’t anything too special but nice experience. On the way back we really struggled to find ANY cheap places to eat!

The next morning in Ubud we woke up and ate by far the best breakfast so far! We could choose from 5 different options like jaffles, pancakes etc and also 5 options for drinks. After eating we walked 5 minutes to Monkey Forest sanctuary paying 30 000 each to get in. The forest is a home to over 600 monkeys and couple of temples. After a while of wondering we got bored pretty fast. It was time to catch some more food and go trekking to the famous rice paddies. 

The track was this 90 minutes round trek. Tho first we had to walk to the start which was a bit further away. On the way we saw this hippie woman with a dress on and literally boobs hanging out! :D The first 3 km of the trek was nice! We stopped to have a coconut drinks at the rice paddies. Just when we were setting of again we saw a sign saying Ubud 6km.. We decided to go that way anyway. Soon the rice paddies changed into forest and just boring roads. Exhausting walk it ended up being! So all in all this 90 minute walk was closer to 3 hours and 12 km! Obviously we rewarded ourselves with a large Bintang and a Radler. After showers we headed back out again to buy tickets for this shuttle bus to Amed. The cheapest ones were around 150 000 each.

On the market street in Ubud we went to buy couple of more vests for a price of 50 000, not 180 000 like this one woman was trying to sell! :D Food, some UFC on TV and to bed was our night.