Sunday, February 6, 2011

Eat. Pray, Love

Ubud, Bali.

Rice fields, monkey forests, waterfalls, natural hotsprings, fire dances, roast suckling pig, and temples--Ubud and surrounding areas have got it all.  We kept ourselves quite busy in our time in Ubud, hiring a driver for a daytrip tour of Northwest Bali on our first day. Just driving around the narrow winding roads of rural Bali was cool in itself, not to mention all of the stops we made. Our driver was also happy to explain to us the meaning of the many Hindu ceremonies taking place in the various villages we passed through.

The highlight of the first day was definitely our stop at Angseri Natural Hotsprings, located seemingly in the middle of nowhere! Down a very sketchy dirt road that had about a 75 degree descent at the very end of it. The hotsprings were well worth the grimaces of our driver though.





The monkey forest the next day was another highlight of our time in Ubud. Monkeys everywhere in a beautiful and sacred forest surrounding a famous temple in the middle. Some great pictures came out of our walk through the forest. We ate a traditional meal of Roast Suckling Pig for lunch, where you eat just about every part of the pig imaginable. We ended the night watching a Cultural Kecak Fire Trance Dance reenactment of the Hindu Epic Ramayana. The dance and music were something else!


 

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