We overslept, but that’s ok when you are tired, on vacation and have no plans. So we went looking for a place in Ubud to have breakfast at 10:30.
We stopped at The Seed Of Life where we had a raw organic breakfast.
Banana Pancake
Breakfast bowl: jackfruit chocolate granola etc.
Some kind of organic drink
Some sweet weird organic beverage
With our bellies full we rode to Goa Gajah to visit the Elephant cave, a complex which dates back to the 11th century.
The entrance of the Elephant cave
One of the two twin water spring pool
Apart from the cave from which the place takes its name it has a water spring pool and some ruins washed by the spring water.
After this historical excursion, we decided to have give a visit at the Ubud best known trek: the Camphyan Ridge walk.
Sparse crowds, aesthetically rich vistas, and (maybe the only attraction in all Bali) free!
The walk consist in a 2km trek which brings on a ridge in the middle of two rivers with a great view on the jungle below.
Aerial view of the ridge walk
Despite her temporary disability, Sara was able to walk all the way up the ridge, and back down.
So proud of her.
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Exhausted by the walk under the sun we stopped on a restaurant close to the entrance of the trek for a quick snack. The name was Murni Warong.
Carrot cake.
The cakes were surprisingly good, while the yogurt wasn’t bad at all.
Yogurth with fruit
Home made cheese cake with strawberry
Despite Sara really enjoyed the drink, Antonio had to order a beer to wash the taste of that think from his mouth.
Rice milk drink with green pieces of rice sweets
The restaurant also offered a great view of the forest on its back. That’s quite surprising as the restaurant front door was on one of busiest road of Ubud.
As we were recovering from the cakes Sara expressed her desire to go on a swing. We looked for a near and not so crowded one. Hard to find but not impossible. We rode to Terrace River Pool Swing, a place that combined swings, luwak coffee, bamboo nest, and rice terrace.
The luwaks were kept in cages in couples and only fed coffee beans. I used all my will to not walk away from that place after seeing that.
Swinging from 50m, by two ropes knotted to two palms. What can go wrong?
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The rest of the place was fine. Sara had her swing, pictures in the nests, and we enjoyed the view of the terraces.
Suspended nest
Aerial picture of our love nest
On the way back to Ubud we stopped on a rice field to take some pictures and to fly the drone a little more.
Rice field on an unnamed road
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Once reached Ubud we had a walk in the market. It was almost 7pm so most of the “shops” were closing. That was fine as there were no tourist around,and the street vendors didn’t try at all to force stuff on us.
Done this other chore, we searched for a place where to enjoy our last dinner in Ubud.
The choice fell on “Balinese Home Cooking“.
3 starters, Sara’s fruit juice and my Bintang
And we were so happy we’d gone there. Friendly staff, amazing food, beautiful place.
Pork Ribs
Some veggies and chicken Balinese combination
At the end the owner came to greet us and ask if everything was ok: we were almost in a food coma… For only 300idr! (Barely 18 euros)
3 desserts…
Tired but happy we went back home to prepare the luggages as tomorrow we’re gonna move to another city!