White water rafting & rice terraces

On our last day in Ubud we were looking for adventure and found just the right activity - white water rafting.
For those of you thinking it's a gentle float down the river, think again. It was 2,5 hours of us against nature. Thankfully we had a very competent guide steering us around the 18km long route down the river but he surely made us paddle enough. There were also a few drops along the route that weren't for the light hearted and made us flop inside the boat.
Approximately 1/3 along the way we stopped for drinks. Conveniently that's also when it started hammering it down with rain for approximately 10mins . Before continuing our journey we did a little spontaneous photoshoot in a picturesque waterfall.

After lunch and a little well needed rest we decided to stay in the area and found a beautiful little hike around the Sidemen rice terraces. A few minutes into the hike we met Sammy from North London, who had mobility issues, and ended up doing the walk through the rice terraces with him. Despite our best efforts to keep him from falling into ditches, Will had to pick Sammy out of a small river when he lost his footing.
Poor guy, but very impressive that he completed the 3km hike on terrain like this.

To end the day we had some very tasty Indonesian food whilst watching the sunset (well not really because it was too cloudy but the view was very pretty anyway).Read more