Bali Sight Seeing and a day in Ubud
![Bali Ubud rice paddies](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_3332-300x300.jpg) |
Rice Paddies in Ubud |
Bali sightseeing and a day in Ubud
Ubud in the centre of Bali is an area of great natural beauty, filled with rice paddy fields on steep ravines. It would be a real shame to go to Bali and not visit Ubud. We went for the day, but next time I plan to stay for a few nights at least.
![Bali Ubud Palace sightseeing](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_3306-300x300.jpg) |
Ubud Palace |
The scenery on the drive up to Ubud is spectacular. Famed for art and culture you can visit local artist’s studios, silver smith and gem houses and batik making artisans. Ubud Palace and the Monkey Forest are also worth a visit.
![Bali Ubud Palace sightseeing artist studios](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_3312-300x300.jpg) |
Inspiring environment at the artists studios |
Ubud is full of culture and each small village has a special art, craft or artisanal skill they specialise in. In artists village I visited Dewa Putu Toris, a tiny but exquisitely decorated studio, housing the work of several local painters and craftsmen. These studios also double up as gallery and selling space.
![Bali Ubud sightseeing ornate decoration](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_3317-300x300.jpg) |
Every building is elaborately decorated |
Over the years Ubud has become quite a tourist hotspot, especially since many of the scenes from ‘Eat, Prey, Love’ were filmed here. There is something very spiritual about Ubud, go for a walk amid the paddy fields and take in the lush greenery. Shopping here is totally tourist driven, think silk sarongs and wooden locally carved sculptures.
![Bali Ubud batik studios fabric](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_3268-300x300.jpg) |
Batik studios |
![Bali Ubud coffee plantation](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_3329-300x300.jpg) |
Coffee tasting at the coffee plantations |
Coffee connoisseurs should visit the Kopi Luwak plantations. Home to the worlds most expensive coffee which is made from poo! Or to be more precise Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee, is made from beans that have been eaten and passed through the digestive system of Palm Civets, which are little weasel type rodents. Oh yum!
![Bali Ubud Seminyak scenery view mountain](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG_7198-300x225.jpg) |
Breathtaking scenery on the drive from Seminyak to Ubud |
![Bali culture Durian fruit eating](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/p20110925-184550-225x300.jpg) |
The infamous Durian fruit, eat at your own peril! it smells like sick! |
![Bali women cloth carrying](http://thestyletraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/P1030845-300x251.jpg) |
Who are you calling cloth head? |
Bali, sightseeing and a day in Ubud |
A local rice farmer |
actually kopi luwak is not coming from bali the source is starting from sumatra due to the tourism almost come to pulau dewata so the people trying to provide it
thnks for informations