Ubud overall

What can we say? We want to live here.

Ubud is the place to love yourself. Endless spas, yoga and meditation classes provide this - as after all, you can only love someone as much as you love yourself. 

Everything from the never-ending line of shops to the infinite number of restaurants makes Ubud the perfect place to relax. We've spent a week of luxury here, compared to bumming around on the beach, having reflexology, massages and facials, as well as visiting temples, markets and watching Balinese dancers.

The market was definitely an experience - 7am is far too early to be spying fish guts and pig heads out of the corner of your eyes. The smoke was choking and I doubt we saw one smile, yet it was interesting to see the locals bartering with each other... and we managed to grab some prawn crackers so all was good.

Ubud is FULL of market stalls; we are now pro barterers! Yet we cannot help but blow the budget everyday on smoothies, bags, t-shirts... and maybe a couple of billabong bikinis.

 

Every morning the locals put there offerings out on the streets of Bali, which is cute and makes the entire jungle city smell of incense.

Once again, we made a trip to the temple.... which meant passing the terrifying monkeys, though we squealed and ran for our lives, all was well when we discovered them pier jumping from the trees into a pond, hehe.

Afronisia!! An amazing african/reggae/jazz band we went to see with a bunch of dancing hippies; their music was incredible and wild dancing in the crown only heightened the AMBIANCEEEE.

A show of traditional Balinese dancers was amazing to see! Jod: I studied these back in the day during drama and it was fantastic to actually see them in the flesh.  An elderly man screeched down a microphone as the voice of many of the characters and they moved frantically about.  Their eyes were wild and darting and their hands outstretched and shaking continuously.  Definitely got my Artaud on. 

Treating our bodies as usual to a post-yoga raw honey lassie or whole coconut.

Our last day in Ubud was a little different from the rest.  Rather than spending six hours of our day in meditation of some form, we raced up the rice paddies on a quad bike! Not steady in the slightest but a very very fun way to see the scenery of the town.

LOVE FROM BALI
jod + meg

Emergency blogspot!: Sound healing/Ecstatic dance in Ubud

As we sat in what has become our local in Ubud, an Eco-friendly and veggie-friendly cafe (of which you'll find in copious supply here), we couldn't stop smiling at how amazing our day, and our lives in general are! We had to tell the world/our mums are probably the only ones guaranteed to read this post.

(We are at one with nature hahaha) but really, we are asked to free our minds and press our heads to the ground in thanks to Mother Nature but at the yoga barn, it doesn't seem so silly! Trust.

We had just finished an ecstatic dance class!!! Probably the best kind of meditation that anyone who loves to party should be able to relate to! It's a wild, bare-foot, free-for-all dance party! All the best bits of going out and none of the crap; no snogging, no dolling up, no judgment (sports bra and saggy leggings combo is considered a 10/10). Definitely the best dance moves in Ubud. There's no chatting, just letting your body feel he music and go wild and shout or sing if you want! Anything goes!

The perfect end to a perfect day.

After vinyasa flow that morning, we headed to 'sound healing' - once again, incredible!!! Three of what you might consider full-on hippies (yes, one did introduce herself as white star) played music, sang, blessed us as all the beings in the East, West, North and South by exhaling the Tobacco from her pipe, with water and with crystals. Mm hmm, indeed we were crying by the end as we sang 'we are a circle' holding everyone in the class.