Day 7 - Monkey Forest & Ubud Market

Last night we had a great thunder storm, spectacular lighting show, Claire slept through it. After a very yummy breakfast we got the hotel shuttle into Ubud. We then found a very nice driver named Gusti to take us to the Monkey Forest.

We bought our tickets and bananas and headed into the forest. Straight away the monkeys wanted bananas. Claire was fine until a big male came up and he scared her a little. We headed down the track and feed some of the smaller monkeys. One young monkey decided he liked Claire and jumped on her back and decided that her head was a good table while he ate his banana. This freaked her out a little but the monkey was not aggressive he just wanted to eat his banana on her head. I found this very funny of course and lots of other tourist as well were laughing and taking photos. Once she started walking he got off and we continued walking around checking out the temple. We headed down to the river and took a few photos. Claire went to take one of me near a Monkey when he decided he didn't like me and showed me his fangs. This was a little scary but once we where away from him Claire then thought this was funny. We watched the monkeys taking a swim for a bit then headed out where our driver was waiting to take us to the market.

We did some last minute shopping but didn't spend too long as it was very hot and sweaty in the market place. The Ubud market is huge and you can get lost in there very easily but we survived. All our money spent we headed out and our driver was waiting to take us back to the hotel. Back at the hotel we headed to the pool for a refreshing swim.

We had lunch pool side chilling until we go for our body scrub and massage at 3.00pm. After that we will pack the bags and checkout at 6.00pm head to the Three Monkeys Restaurant in Ubud for dinner. We get picked up at 9.00pm for our drive back down south to the airport. This should take about 2 hours then we have the mandatory airport wait for our flight home at 1.15am.

Great holiday, still love Bali and will still come back. Hope Claire got to do all the things she wanted to do, there is always more to do and see. We have had great weather, only one day did it rain and we left that in Kuta when we went to sunny Taro to ride the elephants. It has been a little windy on a couple of days but lucky for us not yesterday when we were on the bikes.

Until next time Bali, Selamat Tinggal