Puppets Tropical

Puppets Tropical

Enchanting Ubud

How to get there? Ubud is within 1 hour driving from Denpasar to the north. There are a few ways to go to Ubud. Actually if you want to have more privacy and comfort, you can rent a self-drive car. The cost for small self-drive city car is not more than USD 30 per day. You can also rent car with driver if you are not familiar with the roads and routes. Another alternative is by using regular public transportation called Bemo from Batubulan Station. This is relative cheap and mostly used by the locals. Using taxi from Seminyak, Legian, or Kuta will spend about IDR 200.000 until IDR 250.000.

What to do? Renowned as Bali’s centre of the arts, Ubud is the right place for those who want to enjoy the art attractions, such as dance and shadow puppet performances. Almost every night many places in Ubud conduct dance, music, shadow puppet performances, or occasionally painting exhibition. Ubud is also the right place to learn the Balinese culture. You can join such as Balinese dancing class, Gamelan Music Class, Painting Class, Balinese Cooking Class, or Offering Class. Moreover, many people who visit Ubud won’t miss to try Whitewater Rafting; usually the spot is on the Ayung River at Sayan Villa located in west of Ubud.

Where to stay? Ubud provides a number of delightful accommodations; include individual Balinese-style villas. Many of them have private pools so that the ultimate privacy and intimacy can be maximally enjoyed. Those exotic places are said as slices of heaven on earth. The verdant jungle foliage shades the entire villas, and the villas overlook the serene beauty of the rivers valleys, lush tropical gardens, or terrace rice fields. At the villas you can even listen to the sounds of flowing rivers. Those are beautiful sanctuaries to escape for a while from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan cities. Here in Ubud, you will be transported to different setting of Bali you come for.

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