Ubud for Lunch
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 19 Sep 2016 22:57
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Ubud for
Lunch
  Our driver came promptly at twelve to
pick us up from our villa in the Sideman Valley. A wiggly, rainy, busy and bumpy
two and a quarter hours to Ubud -
The town of Ubud, in the uplands of
Bali, Indonesia, is known as a centre for traditional crafts and dance. The
surrounding Ubud District’s rainforest and terraced rice paddies, dotted with
Hindu temples and shrines, are among Bali’s most famous landscapes. Ancient holy
sites include the intricately carved Goa Gajah (“Elephant Cave”) and Gunung
Kawi, with its rock-cut shrines.
   Very soon we found ourselves in skinny streets, memorials and shrines at every gap alongside trendy
eateries.
  We found our own eatery for lunch complete with a garden
for a back wall.
  The ladies toilet
door(s) were a bit of an event and a picture on the wall showed a market scene from years ago.
   We went for a bimble passing ornate doors and arches. A modern art
event in a shop doorway.
 Old and new
being fused together.
  Tourist
services and narrow
alleys.
 An ugly piece of
tat.
 We cut through the
market en route to the awaiting van.
 We were ready to leave and found a quiet shortcut.
 Another shrine.
  We saw this heavily
laden motorbike on our bimble, later we overtook
him as it began to rain.
 A very busy
picture on the way back to Beez.
ALL IN ALL TOO CRAMPED, TOO MANY PEOPLE AND TOO
MUCH TAT
A VERY BUSY TOURIST
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