Ubud: Cultural hub of Bali

+ Ubud is the small town in the center of Bali, on the hills, where most of artists gather to expose their art. It can be pictures, handcraft, sarongs,... and the best: Massages!! :)  There is a very nice local market with lots of food and plenty of nice places to eat.

+ Each house has its own temple to workship the different Gods. Every morning, they prepare offers to the Gods and they place them in the entrance of the house and the entrance of each room. The offering varies but it normally consist of a banana leaf with: a bit of rice, flowers leafs, a biscuit,... and incense sticks. Sometimes (the good days) they also add a little bit of chicken (??). This way, the whole town smells very good. The process is repeated in the evening. It is really cute to see some many people doing this everyday.

+ We were at a couple of guest houses were they treated us very well. They first room, however didn't have a proper roof and that day (fullmoon) the cocks start "singing" from around 1AM !!! Besides of course of the spiders and others in the room with us...

First House

 
                                                            Second Guesthouse

 
+ The town is surrounded by rice fields where you can walk around, breath the fresh air and relax. The most astonishing is the fact that the rice fields are mixed with palms and jungle in a very tropical style: the "Bali style"

+ Already said before that in Bali there are plenty of temples. Here there is one dedicated to the monkeys. It is located in the forest and therefore called "The Monkey Forest". Watch out for the monkey!! they can rob you, pis on you and bite.... yes, really friendy and cute little animals.

+  We also did a cooking course with mandatory visit to the local market . Spicy spicy!! have you seen Dani? two heads taller than the rest of locals :)