Ubud day 1

We started with breakfast in our villa, I had an omelette and Sam had French toast with banana. It was lovely and even better cause it was free. We then walked through Ubud to the monkey forest.
We saw all the different monkey clans and lots of temples within the sacred forest. We even saw rescued blind monkeys that had lost their sight to snake venom and one that had have 1 arm + 1 leg amputated. One monkey tried to undo Sam’s shoes and another attacked the back of his leg but I guess that makes the rabies vaccine worth it.
We then stopped off in a cafe for a quick coffee before bartering with the sellers in the market. I got a dress and a skirt, some souvenirs and Sam’s got some trousers he didn’t want but was tricked into buying.
We then we headed for some Mie Goreng before heading for silver making.
After we have selected our designed we helped to melt down the silver, wound it a machine to lengthen, bashed it, engraved it and polished it and to end up with two rings. Overall a very fun experience, got to do a lot more than I thought we would be able too and ended up very happy with the end product.

We headed to the rice fields to watch the Sun set and had a nice walk. We then went for a quick swim before heading out for dinner. We had burgers and beer before we went to a live music bar to meet Zoe for some cocktails.Read more