Ubud Ubud is a centre for arts and crafts, it has many courses available on a daily basis from fruit carving, painting and yoga to woodcarving and silversmithing. Having previously completed a course in silver smithing in the uk I was particularly interested in this course. Ed didn't take much convincing either, it was also number 2 on trip advisor on things to do in ubud. We turned up at local house and were happy to see only two other tourists on the course....

We took advantage of the fact we weren't on an island anymore and limited to how far we could walk. We spent ourfirst couple of days in ubud just walking around and taking in all that it had to offer. What an amazing place full of arts and crafts and things to see and do, we were excited about getting out and about. Our first adventure was today 12th September we walked down to the monkey forest. I was a little nervous about going to see the monkeys as I had he...