Ubud Village

Ubud is a village in the middle of Bali which considered as the arts and culture center of the island. Most of the villages seem to consist of artist’ workshop and galleries. There are some remarkable balinese architectural sights and artistic gems to be found. If you are looking for culture, comfort, nature and inspiration Ubud is the perfect place. It is located arround 600 meters above sea level and surrounded by rice fields. So it has cooler temperature than coast.

Ubud is famous for it’s regularly traditional dance performance which mostly performed at night. As it’s arranged for tourist attraction, it has a daily regular schedule. The villages are also well known for its bamboo crafts and furniture, wood-and stone carving and many other crafts which mostly retailing cheap reproductions for tourist. Plenty museum and art gallery are easy to find in Ubud. Beside those art and culture sights, Ubud also has a small forrest named monkey forrest. It is a small nature reserve houses over 200 long tailed monkeys. Stroll through to find Pura Dalem Agung Padangtegal, a Temple of the Dead.

Just 3 kilometers away from Ubud there’s a cave named Goa Gajah (Elephants Cave). The entrance of this cave is an ornately carved demon’s mouth. Inside the cave are some fragmentary lingam and yoni (phallus and vagina) statues. The statues stand guard arround pools near the entrance and a little path leads to a waterfall, ricefileds and some Buddhist stupa fragments. It is interesting because the majority of Balinese are Hindus.

Stay in Ubud is easy. There’s a lot of hotel, villa, and homestay ready to accomodate you. Many tourist simply base their entire stay in the city and travel to other destinations from Ubud because of its strategic places in the middle of the island and of course the reasonably priced than stay in the beach towns of Bali.

Ubud is 33 kilometers away from Ngurah Rai International Airport. There are pre-paid taxi from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Check current price on the notice board in the taxi office just outside the arrivals hall. There’s also a shuttle Bus which offers regular direct transfer to Ubud from Ngurah Rai International Airport that are convenient and inexpensive.