Ubud, Bali

We ended up leaving Kuta and heading for Ubud on a holiday(which we didn't know about), therefore no buses were running, so we got a car to take us about an hour north to Ubud (the town that was on Eat Pray Love) It is a very chill, not so many tourists, traffic, clubs/bars etc. It was just what we were looking for.

When we arrived we went to lunch, I got a ayam pelecing, which was sliced chicken, Balinese sauce with cocnut milk and rice. The restaurant was playing very peaceful meditation music, and they had tables and pillows that you could just sit on the floor... very relaxing.

We walked around a bit and ended up walking to the sacred monkey forest sanctuary, where there is more than 605 masaque monkeys living. We walked through, and you could feed or hold the monkeys at your own risk. They come very close, and we even saw them jump on some visitors. Some of them were very aggressive and the mothers were very protective of their babies.

When we got back to our stay, we chatted with some Indonesian tourists, who told us a bit about this holiday, and that the man who runs the place we are saying is a famous priest of Ubud. That there were 50ish people parading through the streets all day, making there way to our stay (to the temple next door)to make an offering and to receive a blessing (from our “stay dad”). We weren't allowed in the temple without proper dress, but we did stand in the street and we watched the people(mostly men dressed in white) parading to the ceremony.