Last day in Ubud

We made it a slow day today. We walked all over town. Looking and people watching. We had a nice lunch and we found ourselves a few miles from hotel lol and took a taxi back to the local market.

        This is a Luwack, the coffee animal.

         Minnie Mouse

We searched the market for a couple hours for a certain bracelet for a friend Trinity with no luck. 

Blog is not letting me put any more pictures in. They keep making changes. 

We saw monkeys in the street and some cool stuff. Took a nap and went out for dinner and had locals singing to people. Our song was hotel California. Came back to hotel and watched the Bucketlist and Eat  Love Pray. 

Good shit

We met our driver/tour guide right at 9am. He is very sweet, chatty and very informative. Spoke English very well.. This is his only source of income, but helps his family farming. We learned a lot about his family and  Balinese Hindu culture. He also learned about America.
 We Headed to our first stop the Tegalalang  rice terraces. It’s was very beautiful. We learned about the growing to table process. 


Yes Davina and I did the swing!! Tim opted out. It’s was amazing! I’m a free bird. 

Then we headed to the Holy water temple. We learned about the Hindu praying culture and these are blessings.
 

This is the Sacred Banyon tree, The roots grow above ground,

This is a natural spring holy water. The prayers start at one end and go to each faucet down the line, except the last three, those are for death and cremation. They also have a separate area where pregnant women go for blessings of their baby. 

Coverups where required.
 
Then we were off to the next step, the coffee plantation. We learned about the different coffee beans, cocoa beans and teas (spices) that are made here.

Bali is famous for the Luwack coffee, this is where a wild cat like animal eats the coffee Bean and poops it out. Then a worker that is paid very well, collects the coffee bean. The animals digestive system purifies the bean. It is very pricey coffee. 

The Luwack is a wild nocturnal animal, so they cannot produce the coffee in mass amounts, this is why it’s so pricey. $100 usd for 3 ounces of dry coffee. This is the coffee that Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson talked about in the movie "the bucket list" they drank it and stated good shit. So, the locals here took that to heart and they call it cat poo chino and "good shit!"
This Luwack is only for visitors to see what the animal looks like.



Roasted Luwack beans
 

We tried several different coffees and spice "Tea" throughout the stop. And some various chocolates.
So you have not experienced Bali until you have tried the Cat poo Chino. Aka Good Shit!



And everyone knows how much I love coffee....I was VERY hesitant to try due to the process.. Tim and Davina tried it and they don’t like coffee... so I did!!! Smelled like coffee, tasted like coffee....It’s was strong!
 

Next stop, we went to the volcano Mt Batur and witnessed some beautiful views from above. 

This is where we had a buffet lunch and this was our view. 

Next we visited the Tegenungan waterfall. This is the first waterfall we have seen in Asia.

We finished our wonderful day with Wayan and took Tim to his very first fish spa. Tim really had no response lol unlike me my first time. :)


Then we went and got ice cream at Dairy Queen. And chatted about our day a little bit.

While we were sitting there this guy came up with the sign and I asked to take his photo. It was pretty funny.
 
Davina went on for another massage and Tim and I went back to the hotel room for a little bit then head out for dinner where we had some margaritas.
Tim can’t live without his sports.
 
We have made a Indonesian friend . Wayan Midun Thanks for a great day!

Ubud

Beautiful first day in Ubud, Bali. Indonesia! Tim finally arrived to our villa at 3am, we got some sleep and was up for breakfast on the patio at 9am. 

He traveled for 3 days to get here so, to keep it a easy day,I scheduled a spa day for us. The Spa car picked us up and we headed out for our 90 minute couples massage. private room with shower and bathroom.This was Tims very first massage, so I ordered a gentle relaxing massage for him. I didn’t want  to scare him off with a traditional Balinese massage lol I went for the traditional and I am so sore! 

So by the time we got back to the villa  it was lunchtime so, we decided to wander and find some food. (apparently Tim didn’t want a easy relaxed day!!! Lol)and found the palace 

Tim bought tickets to a fire dance show for tonight and he hired a car n driver for tomorrow’s adventures. 

We went to the market, and got lost for awhile. Tim bought me a lounge dress and some oils. Seen some interesting bottle openers too. Penis everywhere! 

Tim originally said that he didn’t want to go to the monkey sanctuary but, then changed his mind. So we walked there.

Tim petted this one. Lots of mommas n babies. 

It was nice n cool-in the forest.

Tim had to hit a ATM and now he is a multi millionaire. Lol  3 million Rupah = $217.00 USD

We walked to the show and it started raining. How romantic walking in the rain. :/ rain didn’t last long at all just enough to temporarily cool it off a bit.

Balinese traditional fire dance 

The man on the left.. note his feet, he walked through hot coals many times, kicking them around. 

After the show, we had a very nice traditional Balinese meal.

It was wonderful. The atmosphere was perfect for our night out. It was so good, I ate it all. I got so full that I couldn’t even get the planned ice cream after dinner. (Rain check!)

Walked Back to the home stay, where we discovered a small waterfall and stream in our backyard. 

So, Tims first day in Bali was anything but relaxing lol.  :) We love it here. Tomorrow is another adventure.