Private charter to Ubud

This friday, I took off for some sight seeing around Ubud, a city a little bit further in land. A bit after 7, I got picked up by Toya, my driver, who took me to all the sights. The monkey forest, the temple in Ubud, the rice teracess, another temple and for a quick peek at Sanur.

 

While I waited for him to turn up, I had a beng-beng, the base of a nutrishous and healthy meal.

After 2 hours drive, we stopped for a real breakfast at a warung. This was probably the meal that upset my belly. Yeah, I thought more than once before digging in to this, but what the heck, you got to try it. And I was really hungry. Toya had something similar, and I picked up the bill which stopped 30.000 rupies (a little less than 3 euros). It was really great though, some things I never tasted before.
Very ofthen here, you get your meal served in a basket like this, with some paper on it instead of a plate.

This is what the kitchen looked like. As you may notice, The chef got a bit embarresed :-)

 
And the display window and the entrance, with all the things on sale.

 

After the breakfast at the warung, we left for the Monkey forest.

A common activity for the monkeys when not trying to steal things from the visitors - pick bugs out of the fur for each other.

There were some people who had as jobs to feed the monkeys to keep them happy. Here they are eating away on some nuts. I bought some bananas to give to them, and one cheeky kid monkey climbed up my leg and tried to stick his little hands in my pockets. :-)

Another monkey hanging around in a tree.

 Hey man! Go put some clothes on!
The kid in the family was kind of amazed that daddys ding dong was out in the free. After a while he grew tired of his curious kid and showed him his teeth which made him lose interest.

 

The jungle itself was pretty cool too. Damp, sweathy and a lot of noise from all the animals. 

The rice teracess just outside Ubud. Really nice place.

 

To enhance the experience you could have babi guling (roasted suckling pig) while enjoying the view.

 

These are pictures of the other temple we passed on the way home from Ubud. Quite a cool place, except for the guy that tried to do the “sarong trick” on me, putting a sarong around your waist while getting your wallet. I gave him a grim look, and he undestood that I understood and backed off.
Toya couldn’t enter the temple as a member of his family recently passed away. Something to do with bad luck I think.

On the way home, we went to sanur beach and saw a gigantic hotel, built in the 60ies with money from Japan as a compensation for what they did during ww2. The beach and its establishments looked very old as well, and seemed to have had its peak some years ago. There were only indonesian people there almost.
After all that I slept for 3 hours when I came home, a compensation for all the bed time I lost during these last days. The heat really makes you tired as well.