foreign
my top tip for visiting Ubud do not look at a monkey in the eyes for too long do not smile and
show your teeth to a monkey they are vicious and they are scared of no one we'll get more into that
as the day goes on but welcome guys welcome to the beautiful cultural capital of Bali Ubud is quite
a bit more in land a bit more north than a lot of the popular places that most tourists like to
stay the attractions you'll find around the boot are very much the postcard beautiful Vistas that
you see of like rice paddy Fields amazing temples everything is green and Lush there is an actual
Town site and that is where I am currently staying it is a really beautiful place in and of itself
with lots of things to do so in today's Adventures I will be taking you guys around some of the most
you know popular things to see and do a few are off the Beaten Track and of course of course I
will be telling you everything I have learned so far about monkeys but first and foremost I
wanted to share with you guys the amazing guest hosts that I am staying at here in food because
it is a steal this is my own personal balcony and how perfect is this guys this is just like Lush
nature we're just off the main road it's just out that way and then coming into the main room
also very lovely very spacious everything is really clean and they can easily help
you with laundry and all of that kind of stuff the washroom is more or less pretty basic but there is
hot water so at the end of the day everything you need oh and by the way literally one of the best
selling points for me is that they have amazing internet they have literally I think some of the
best internet that I've found here in Bali so who would have known a little guest house thank you
thank you foreign
this is my personal favorite breakfast place that I have tried here in Ubud but to be honest there
are so many great places this is just one of many but I really love the choices that they
have here for breakfast I especially love the Mexican breakfast wrap which is only 45
000 rupiah which is more or less like three and a half U.S dollars which is wild their
coffee is also really good here I like to get a cappuccino or an Americano and then the best part
is that they actually have a lot of different juices and smoothies if you're into that sort
of thing they even have like the proper cold pressed juices they have like elixirs they
have regular juice that does use a little bit of heat I usually like to try the gracious green
foreign
has arrived guys I am telling you it is so good it is so delicious and to be honest coming here for
lunch and dinner is also highly recommended they have really good options so all in all a great
way to start the day now I think it's only fair we start off this video with the main attraction of
Ubud which is the sacred monkey Forest sanctuary there's a very good chance that you'll see plenty
of monkeys just on the streets of Ubud as you walk around the town but if you want to be amongst 700
of them then definitely go to this place as I mentioned earlier in my video I had some prior
experience you could say with monkeys uh back when I was in jimbaran area staying at the Ayana Resort
where they have a few monkeys that are around the property and at this time I just let my instincts
get the best of me where I saw this monkey perched up on this pillar and they just look so cute you
know they just look so cute so my reaction was to go oh my gosh so cute you know look at the monkey
straight in the eye smile at it move closer to it and of course what does the monkey do he basically
leaps towards me like he wants to attack me thankfully it was just a warning and he or
she didn't ask actually attack me but I learned then and there that there is the rule that you
should never look monkeys in the eye because they see it as a sign of aggression and same
with showing your teeth other maybe not as well known things is that you should never have any
kind of plastic bags around monkeys because they associate that with food obviously make sure you
never have food on you when you are around monkeys because they will know they will smell it and they
will do whatever they have to do to get that food but all in all going to the monkey Forest
is a pretty fun experience I was just a little bit jumpy since I did almost get attacked and I
have seen other people get attacked most common is people getting their glasses taken or their cell
phones but usually if you're in that situation and they take something of yours do not chase them
do not try and grab them back usually once they realize that it's not food they will drop the item
but outside of seeing the monkeys the monkey Forest itself is a beautiful place to go walking
around in it's actually a fairly large area and there's also lots of really beautiful temples
in here and I was very lucky to be there in time when there was a traditional procession going on
all right guys so now we are going to head to the main downtown area of Ubud this is where
you'll find a lot of the main attractions that are right in the city like Ubud Palace the Art
Market Saraswati Temple there's a lot basically in one area but a very important thing that I
want to mention is that if you are planning to go see any of the temples a lot of them you can
actually enter you know walk around in but one thing you have to know is that for both men and
women your shoulders and your knees have to be covered some of the places do have sarongs you
can borrow you know just to go into the temple but not every single one so I would recommend you know
wearing some kind of like shirt a long skirt or pants just so you don't come across that problem
foreign
there are so many good restaurants literally an abundance of them but one place that I
definitely would recommend to you guys is just across the street actually from
where I'm staying we're gonna go there right now it's called Cafe Wayan and
it is a local Balinese restaurant that's been around since the 1980s
thank you
all right guys so we have the menu here since 1986 home style cooking let's take a look
tells the story of the cafe and while everything is delicious here I would definitely recommend
checking out the Nasi kampur platter that's actually probably what I'm gonna get today where
you get like a rice sampler served with chicken curry Balinese vegetables saute saffron eggs
sauteed coconut tempeh corn fritters you basically get to try everything which is a great sort of
introduction into the cuisine and then I would also recommend the Balinese special which kind of
has you know more expensive things like seafood as you guys can see I am a bit sunburned but
um another thing I recommend you try is this Indonesian drink that is called Jammu it's
like an immune boosting sort of juice where they take a lot of different things usually
like ginger turmeric boil it for a long time on the stove and it's supposed to have like immune
boosting benefits and it's actually quite tasty so if you get a chance give it a go
so my meal has just arrived and it looks absolutely spectacular look at all the
different things you get to try we've got the corn fritters chicken saute some tempeh different
kinds of vegetables I think there's some kind of lentils in here as well just keep in mind
that Balinese and Indonesian food in general can be quite spicy so I actually forgot to
ask for Slice on the side but you know what gonna make it work still super super delicious foreign
of why I would highly recommend spending quite a bit of time in Ubud is because it makes it easy to
do a lot of really fantastic day trips that are more in the north and in the east of the island
nothing in this video is obviously sponsored but I just wanted to give you guys some suggestions
of things that I did and really enjoyed starting with a photography tour that I booked on Airbnb
that also gives you a tour of one of the most famous temples in all of Bali called the Gate
of Heaven not only is the location of this Temple absolutely breathtaking with a literal volcano in
the background but it's definitely one of the most famous places in Bali to take the picture
between the gates where they then use a mirror to make the bottom look like you're standing on
water now one very important thing to note about going to this Temple is that unless you get here
before 7 30 a.m you are going to be waiting two to three hours to take the famous said picture coming
from Ubud I got up at 4 00 am to be on the road at 4 30 to then make it to this Temple at 6 00 am
very tiring but very worth it and definitely one of the most beautiful Vistas that I had seen on
this same tour we went to some other absolutely beautiful sights like the Water Palace and also
the two CAD sapon waterfall followed by the famous rice fields just outside of Ubud so a very long
day it was literally a 12 or 13 hour tour but I was really happy with it because the photos were
absolutely fabulous that I got and it was just so great to see so many places all at once thank you
the second day trip that I would recommend is probably the most famous day trip that
people do from Ubud which is hiking the active volcano called Mount bittor what's interesting
about this tour is that it is a sunrise hike meaning they pick you up around 1 30 1 45 you
get to the base of Mount petore at almost 3 A.M you start hiking and hopefully your
group gets to the top before the sun rises around 6 00 a.m I'm not gonna lie to you
guys it was actually more challenging than I was expecting uh because you literally are in
the dark there's obviously no street lights there and the flashlights that they give you
don't really help you see where you're going and the path can be a little bit treacherous so make
sure you wear some really good shoes and try and get as much sleep as possible before you start
to book this tour you can easily just go to one of many tourist offices in downtown Ubud almost every
single place offers it and usually you can join an existing group even if you are a Solo Traveler to
get a much better price I ended up paying 30 US Dollars which I think is very reasonable because
it includes the pickup from your hotel a guide to help you hike the actual volcano I would not
recommend doing this by yourself a quick breakfast at the very top and then also your transfer back
now the last thing that I want to recommend to you guys is my favorite walk in all of Ubud it really
starts very close to downtown and is just this beautiful nature walk which is called kampuhan
someone's still around
me
so that is it my friends this brings us to the end of my Ubud and Beyond video I hope you enjoyed it
I hope you found it helpful the top thing that I will say about being in Bali now for about
three weeks is that I completely overestimated how much I would be able to see and completely
underestimated the amount of attractions and interesting places on the island I think I
could spend a whole year on Bali and not see everything so I've already kind of made the
decision that I'm not even going to bother to try to jump around you know 20 different places
in the span of like a few weeks I'd rather just enjoy enjoy the places you know where
I am to the biggest extent that I can compared to changu I like Ubud much better it's much more my
style much more relaxed I really like all the greenery and I like having the other Northern
attractions much closer than if I was down in the South so let me know in the comments if you
have been to Ubud what was your experience and as always I'm sending you guys so much love I hope
you're having a fantastic day and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys thank you