Monday, May 23

Bali - Ubud


Enough of touristic Kuta! We headed to Ubud which is about 2h drive north of Kuta. Ubud has been so much nicer!

We had our awesome Bungalow hotel (SRI Bungalow, can recommend if anyone is looking for a quiet place for about 40 Euros a night) located in the "Monkey Forrest" area. It's called monkey forrest because, well, it's in a forest full of monkeys. When holding food out they went really crazy but otherwise just monkey around :)

Hotel pooooool
Monkey Temple and...monkeys
There are MANY Hindu temples around Bali since the majority of the people are Hindu. We stopped by a few temples, this one here is over 1000 years old!
Nature is rich in Bali and it's like a big jungle everywhere. What is cool to do in a jungle? Rafting!! We went down a 10 km slope for 2 hours. Was really cool! Never done that before. Stefan manage to fall of the boat when it bumped pretty hard into the mountain wall but nothing happened thanks to a quick Kari who pulled him up in 5 sec. The camera in his pocket didn't even have time to take damage.

Was a long and sweaty way to walk down first
Down we go!
On the way home from rafting we stopped by Balis biggest waterfall. It's called the Git Git Waterfall and is about 100 m high. We went swimming under it. It's actually pretty cold and noisy under a huge waterfall. I also manage to drop my sunglasses. Was sure this one weird guy who kept filming me with his phone nicked them but found them later between some stones.

3 fatties and a waterfall!
This has been a really nice trip. Thank you all for making it worthwhile, Kari, Stefan, Frank and Janina. Too bad it was so short!

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