Monkey Forest, Bali

Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud is home to over 600 long-tailed macaques. Here in Bali they live freely within Monkey Forest and have a contact with humans on daily basis. From time to time they like to wander into local rice fields and village, but then they can become pests. Monkeys are protected by Balinese as they believe in their power against evil spirits. They may be a little naughty and snatch various items from tourist...

Gunung Kawi Temple, BALI

The same day after visiting Goa Gajah, we headed to Gunung Kawi Temple which is an ancient rocky temple. To get to the temple you need past over 300 stone steps down passing by incredible beautiful rice terrace. Going down is very easy, but not when you think about coming back up specially when is really hot and humidity. When we visited Bali in September there was loads of ceremonies going on in temples. In some of them we could see preparations like in Gunung Kawi.

Welcome to paradise! Bali!

Bali claims to be paradise on earth. There is everything from hills, mountains through sandy beaches, volcanic hillside to incredible green rice terraces. The landscape is dotted with temple and each day is punctuate with religious rituals. Bali is Hindu island which belongs to the most Muslim populated country in the world. Their Hindu religion has more common with the ancient form than in modern India today. Even Balinese people admit that Hindu is very difficult religion as they practice it a lot more than any other country.