Ubud Favorites

Favorite thing: While in Ubud make sure you pop into Kenko for a massage.
After walking all day it's a wonderful opportunity to have your legs and feet feel normal again.
Being a reflexology massage it's interesting to find out what those painful spots on your feet mean!
After they have finished with your legs & feet roll over and your back will be massaged (no need to take clothes off).
It is finished off with a neck and head massage as well. Heaven :)
A cup of ginger tea is the perfect way to come back to reality.
This one hour massage cost me 75,000rp. What a bargain.

You will find Kenko in Jl Raya opposite Ubud market or in Monkey Forest Rd next to Komaneka Resort.

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Favorite thing: The Ubud Tourist Information is a great source of information and the people that manned the desks are very helpful. They offer also tours that are competitive prices, all written in the bulletin boards.

If you want to know on what cultural shows are available on the evening, they can easily give you info and direction.

The location is just next to Ubud Market, and almost opposite of Ubud Palace.

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Favorite thing: You will have to experience a Balinese massage. No..no.. not once but everyday! ....if possible.... Its so good and worth every penny! You can get it from the shop, the hotel/resort or you can arrange with your landlord to have the masseur/masseuse go to your lodge. A variety of choice of massages at different range. You can have the simple balinese massage or the sophisticated spas with treatment of exfoilation scrub, steam, floral bath and many more...
Most of the massages will run from 45minutes to 1.5hours - cost about usd10 to usd15 while the spa treatement will take about 2hours or so - cost about usd25 to usd35.

Therapeutic Massage
a) Balinese massage - 60minutes (long kneading strokes, deep tissue massage, acupressure)
b) Aromatherapy massage - 90 minutes (treatment of essential oils with massage)

Beauty Treatment
a) Javanese Lulur (Mandi Lulur) - 120minutes (traditional, luxurious massage followed by exfoliation paste with blend of rice, tumeric, sandlewood and a touch of jasmine, leaving the skin gently scented. Finished with yogurt application and a warm flower bath laced with rose petals)
b) Milk bath - 120minutes (soothing massage followed by herbal scrub and milk body mask. Warm milk bath scented with fragrance of sweet rose flowers)
c) Boreh Bali Massage - 120minutes (traditional spices of temulawak roots, clove, ginger, rice to warm the body followed by a flower bath. Treatment is concluded with a massage for the back, neck and shoulder)
d) Mud Body mask - 120minutes (Full balinese massage - body mud mask, body steam and finishes with a cold flower bath laced with rose petals)
e) Bunga Mawar Facials (Rose Flower) - 90 minutes (Use of essential rose oils, floral waters and special rose petal mask. The facial includes a cleansing, exfoilation scrub and steam. Warm towel steam throughout the treatment)

Recommended : the Mandi Lulur or the Javanese Lulur!

Fondest memory: Aww..... how else can i express it...

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Favorite thing: The palace is located in the center of this village. Landmark. If you go to inside of this village in the late evening, the sunset shines on the tower of this palace. So the mystic mood..
Anyway in this palace some Balinean entertainments are held everyday 19:00-

Favorite thing: The Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, located at Padangtegal, Ubud is one of the must visit places when you are in Ubud. It is also known as Mandala Wisata Wenara Wana. This sanctuary is inhibited by a specie of monkeys called the Balinese macaques. The forest serves not only as important component in the spiritual and daily lives of the villages, it is also a site for several research and conservation programs. The monkeys are very important to the Balinese culture - it is reflected in dances and stories such as the Kecak dance and the Ramayana, in statues, carvings and folk tales.

Besides being a dwelling place for the macaques, the forest also house 3 temples : The Pura Beji (Holy Bathing Temple), The Pura Prajapati (funeral or cremation temple) and the Pura Dalem Agung Temple. You can spend at least half a day here, exploring the surroundings and watch the monkeys

Address : Jl. Monkey forest, Padangtegal, Ubud, Bali
Phone : +62-361-971304
Email : info@balimonkey.com
Website : www.balimonkey.com
Opening hours : 8am - 6pm
Entrance Fee : 10,000/Rp

Fondest memory: watch the interaction between human beings and monkeys.

Favorite thing: Ubud is away from the noise of Kuta, and it's a fantastic base to explore traditional Balinese lifestyle. The villages and rice paddies are just a stone throw away where you see the locals minding their own business.

Fondest memory: Want nirvana? Having traditional Balinese massage amongst the dense forest and flowing river, complete with aromatic oils. Priceless. Attached is the picture of the massage table.

Fondest memory: i can not help but smile everytime remember about greetings from local that we've got while staying in ubud. first, a smile and continue with "transport?!!" of course we do understand very well, these were drivers who offer us a trip and transportation. but sometimes we like to make jokes like, "no, no, no .. we are @rie and nick, bukan [not] transport." yes, they're very friendly :)

Favorite thing: The friendliness of Ubud residents is matched by the helpfulness of its Tourist Information staff, who go out of their way to giving you great information for almost everything. Performance schedules and tickets, organized tours, spas, and even where to have a taste of authentic local cuisine - name it, they have it!

All these with their genuinely warm Balinese smile!

Ubud's Tourist Information Office is located at the heart of the town center - corner of Monkey Forest Road and Jl Raya Ubud.