Ubud. Culture vultures

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Ubud....or Ugbug as I first thought...the capital of culture in Bali.
In Emma's words 'it's proper mint 'ere, like, loads of art, boss places to eat 'n' muzik, innit', I think I understood correctly, she very much appreciated the creativity and history in the area. Emma, being a true Yorkshire lass haggled the price of our first night of accommodation down, as we couldn't get into our room until 8....So we started by dropping our bags at the the hotel, Villa Saraswati, before heading to the centre of Ubud. Villa Saraswati is owned by Dean and Robyn, an Aussie couple and the place is incredible...lovely cooked breakfasts, great decor and an infinity pool. There's always staff on hand to get any drinks or food you might need, do you need any drinks? I do, one Bintang beer please mister. One of the workers at Villa Saraswati is Wayan and he invited us to the village temple on our first morning, it was brilliant. Balinese people are predominantly Hindu, they are such welcoming, friendly people. We visited the village temple and even got involved with helping them to prepare for a celebration that occurs only once every 100 years. The locals were very surprised to see westerners helping, so they filmed us to show the next generation in another 100 years time...Which we obviously charged for. We visited monkey forest, there were long tailed macaques there...bit of trivia, they are most widespread and successful of all primates...as side from humans, of course.

Today we went on a bike ride, I know what you're thinking and yes, we did get one with stabilisers for Em. We started by visiting a coffee plantation, that was fun. We tasted various coffee and tea. I even tried one that the beans had passed through a creature from the civit family. I wasn't sure at first, but apparently they spend big bucks on the stuff in the US, $100s of dollars per cup, so for the equivalent of £3, I thought I'd give it a blast. Catpoo coffee hmmmm, de-lish. I'm going to recycle it tomorrow and sell it on CatAlPoo coffee. We took in some great views, looked around a typical Balinese family home and visited rice paddy fields, all whilst cycling. This evening we bought a painting - 'that's mint, that, like' said Em, so we had to have it. We're having a massage this evening, the cycle downhill really took it out of us both. Until next time, bonsoir.

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