Ubud Sat Sep 20

Ate lunch at a place called the Dirty Duck Diner. It was an open air restaurant where, guess what, they actually serve dirty duck- a crispy, spice covered duck dish. The ambiance of this place was terrific. This was the view from our table. You can see part of our table in the picture. There were working rice paddies right there.

Visited the Ubud Monkey Forest. They are actually long-tailed macacques.

Ubud is an inland region in the mountains. The Monkey Forest is a sacred Balinese Hindu site -the site of Padangtegal’s Pura Dalem (a temple). 

The monkeys are all over the place. There are even three distinct macaque territories, the place is so large. There are human caretakers who feed the macaques things like sweet potatoes, and cucumbers in addition to their natural diet, etc. Visitors of course try to feed them all sorts of things. We just left the monkeys alone and they left us alone. 

And let us not forget about the bats.  We saw this group of  bats trying to sleep amidst the rafters of one of the buildings. I have no idea what kind they are but they looked like small fruit bats.I should point out that we saw large flying fox fruit bats at the Bird Park as well.

There was even a short trail to see more of the forest.