We’d had quite a full on day the day before, so decided to take it easier on our second full day. We started off with breakfast, which was a banana pancake and a platter each of fresh fruit! Mum had an hour of massage the day before and followed it up with another one today, the previous day was foot massage so today was an hour-long full body massage for only £4! We tried to find a reiki practitioner who we’d seen the day before, but the two times we tried to find him to book an appointment for the following day, he wasn’t there… I had a coffee while mum had her massage 😉
After the massage, we went for lunch, which was a shared portion of nasi goreng ayam (fried rice with chicken) and a portion of sate ayam each (chicken satay with peanut). Delicious!
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We had a bit of a wander around the markets, mum bought some flip flops, I bought a t shirt, and wandered until teatime. As we were wandering, we went past the reiki man’s place and checked again – he was apparently on his way back, so we waited for him, and mum had an hour long session with him. Two treatments in one day; luxurious or what!
We had booked a table for tea at a local place which supported local children, called Fair Warung Balé, set up by a Swiss German man and which was cheap and popular! We weren’t a big fan of the decor, as we had hundreds of flies dive bombing us and dying in the light in front, but we were there to give to a good cause rather than the quality of the place. Food was alright, pudding was better 😊 We then headed over the road for a cocktail – well I did, mum was having a healthy day so she had some tea without milk.
Day 3 started off again with breakfast, this time rather than giving me squash like I had been given so far, I was presented with a mango “smoothie” which wasn’t like any smoothie I’d ever had before; it was nearly solid, like it was part gelatine. If you lifted the straw out and dropped it back in, it didn’t sink… Mum saluted the straw 😂
We had planned to go to Monkey Forest today, and we decided to walk it, even if mum did moan about being hot or making us walk on the other side of the road for a while, etc… In order to prevent any monkey-related catastrophe, I’d decided that we shouldn’t bring our bags or any water, but instead just ourselves wearing long trousers, the room key, and money for the ticket. I checked online the night before and it said it was 30,000 entry so I brought around 70,000 rupiah with me. Got there, and it had gone up to 40,000 per person! I tried to explain to the woman that the official website said otherwise, but she just shrugged and turned away. I offered mum to go in without me, but she said no… What else could I do… I literally begged people to give me 60p! Probably a new low in my life, but one Aussie woman gave me 20p and a Belgian man gave me the 40p, so we coul go in!
First thing we saw upon entering was a woman with a monkey on her. Then later, a different woman, onto whom a monkey leapt, pulling her hair, crouched on her chest, scratching her arm, and biting into her water bottle. Felt quite pleased we’d packed light!
Wandered around the temple complex, which was so humid you could hardly breathe, you could see lots of monkeys just chilling out, and people being stupid towards them. Towards the end, we walked past the cremation ground, and mum walked past some monkeys at the end. This following few moments are now referred to by mum as the “menacing monkey” incident although I disagree. Mum was walking towards me when a monkey got up on its hind legs and very slowly began following her. Its arms were in the end but it wasn’t trying to get her, otherwise it would have just lunged/jumped like the others did. Mum slowly did a crab walk away, with the monkey slowly following her. Mum didn’t scream exactly, but did let out a brief high-pitched noise. I on the other hand was just laughing 😂 Eventually I clapped my hands and the monkey ran off. I think the monkey was just having a dare with its mates to see if it could freak out my mum without actually doing anything… Which it won!
We went for a juice and coffee to recharge after the monkey experience (after returning back to the room to get the bags of course, as I had no money on me!) Mum did her standard thing of tripping over every slightly different surface; between the bathroom and the room, corridors, stairs, etc. We then went for a look around the Ubud Palace. Lots of Chinese tourism there, lots of rural people pushing us out of the way.
We went to have a quick beer before returning home to get freshened up. Finally, that evening, mum decided she wanted to go back to her favourite restaurant, Hujan Locale. For starters, we had sate babi – we wanted to take a picture of it but it was just so delicious, that I only got a picture of mum scraping the plate clean! I had duck leg for my main and my mum had a curry. We also had more delicious cocktails! It was our last proper night in Ubud (as we would have to have an early night the following day) so good to go out with a bang!