Now migrated a bit further north – away from the beach to the cultural center called Ubud.

Nice “Wayan Master” picked us up yesterday and drove us the three hours north, stopping at the rice paddies, the silver works, the word craft center, the waterfalls and the painting collective – we were encouraged to buy at every occasion ;-)

ONce in Ubud we wandered down on foot to the Sacred Monkey Forest where we got mauled and abused by the malevolent monkeys – at least they were trouble until we ran out of bananas at which point they ignored us and started fighting with a random dog!

Settled for the night in a nice hotel, not bad for 15 quid a night each including breakfast. Off in a couple hours for a bus ride and white water rafting – heard good things and its raining too so should be nice and fast!

Haven’t been using the camera much but will try and get some more pictures to bring home!

Planning to head to the beach tomorrow but we’ll see how it goes…

James – http://www.dancingwithloons.com