We had breakfast on the balcony by the pool again, the food was delicious and we ate up quickly in anticipation for our 10am pick up, which was prompt and we were swept away to our first activity. We were off to a temple that had a natural spring running in it that disturbed the sand and made pretty patterns along the floor. There was a also an enormous koi pond outside that we spent some time at, trying to spot the biggest fish there - which turned out to be a large white one that was pregnant; she was as big as my arm and horizontally, well rounded.

We left the fresh spring temple and moved on to a coffee plantation, where we were introduced to coffee beans on stalks, which were only pinked when they went red and were ripe, massive passion fruits, lemon grass and a variety of other fruits and herbs that currently escape me. We were shown the nocturnal animals that eat the ripe coffee beans, which go through their digestive system and out the other side, to be collected, washed, deshelled, washed again and then roasted. I had a go at roasting some beans and nearly go roasted myself as the fire was so hot! I gave the woman her wooden spoon back and then had a go at crushing the roasted beans into a fine powder, which I also only did a couple of times as the crusher was quite heavy and I was sure it would be easier to get a machine to do it.

We were then taken to a covered, seated area where we were provided with samples of tea and coffee in tiny cups to try. Edd had a go at the teas and also tried the ginseng coffee. His folks ordered 2 cups of the pooh coffee which we all had a taste of - it was extremely strong and Edd pulled faces as it made its way down his oesophagus. We bought a few pots of the tea and one of cocoa and then left the plantation.

Our next stop was an elephant cave, which turned out was also classified as a temple; we descended down 3 flights of steep stairs to the area and was surrounded by lush vegetation. There were 3 shrines a bit beyond the temple inside the cave, where Hindus could go to pray and worship. there were 3 male symbols (use your imagination as to what the symbols may be) that were in different colours depending on power of the deity they represented. There was another walk up to the Buddhist temple that was in total ruins, but was surround by untouched, lush jungle with a stream that flowed past it. The trip back was quite tiring as it was back up the steep stairs to our minivan, where our driver was waiting to take us into town.

We changed our minds about going to Ubud centre and went back to the hotel instead. I sat and blogged while Edd read the news and we all relaxed on the sun loungers by the private pool. We ordered 2 pizzas to share between us with G&T's all round and then resumed our positions by the pool. At 4.00pm we got up and went and got ready to go out, as we wanted to catch the 5.00pm shuttle into the centre.

We were dropped off opposite the palace and went for a mince around. Edd got 2 new t-shirts as the ones he had been wearing the last 3 months had holes in; he tried one on, liked it and then swopped his holey shirt for the new one, walking out with it on his back, with his old one in their dustbin.

We walked around a bit more; Edd's mum got a beautiful cotton top which she also left the shop wearing as the one she was wearing initially was synthetic fabric and didn't breathe. I went in search of a beautiful electric blue jumpsuit, which we found but looked like a big blue bag on, so we gave it a skip. We had also encountered a issue with Edd's folks bank cards: they'd all been blocked. We spent the next 15 minutes on the phone to England, getting them unblocked with relative ease, bar 1 expensive 'please call me back' phone call.

We then went to the Lotus for dinner, where we also got to watch the Hindu dance we'd seen a few days earlier again. Our food arrived incredibly quickly and were finished before the dancing started, which meant we could sit back and drink wine while we watched.

Edd and I then went off to find sim cards: we were in Indonesia for 3 weeks, which was our minimum amount of time we had to spend in a country before we allowed ourselves to get a sim card in it.

We then ran back to our shuttle, which arrived at 8.10pm to collected us; it had started pouring with rain and we had timed our town exit perfectly. The shuttle had to come back for us as it was full, so we stood and watched other dancing that was going on in a different venue, right where we were being picked up - the door was open though so we could look through while we waited.

The shuttle came back for us and dropped us off at the hotel; it was pouring with rain again and we grabbed one of the umbrellas to ward it off a bit. Mexican Trains and lemon grass tea all round, we played until 10.45pm and Edd won - I came first from the back, by a long shot. It was bed time and we said good night to his parents, making our way downstairs in the rain and then climbing into our cocoon of a bed. Alarms were switched off: it was a free day the next day, sleep as long as you want.