Ubud Again…

Not that I am escaping from the Jakarta blasts (again and again), but I am feeling in a very peace now in Ubud. It has been many times I spent my time in Bali in many special occasions but coming back to Ubud is really different and something. Though the plan was all the sudden, but indeed it really worth to have it as an adventure.

Arriving late at night in Bali (almost 00 am) after a job finished in Surabaya, it was the time catching up a taxy where we couldn’t find the number of a hostel in Sanur that I booked from ‘AustralianHostels’ – it was only, as a local, that the frightening that I was going to be rejected in some hostels in Bali if I just come on the spot was still haunted me. But the $17 hostel is really nice, except the sponge bed, everything is okay. It has a spacious room and spacious bed, a hot water and aircon. And the following day, after having a short look of Sanur Beach, I decided soon to have it left, to the main destination: Ubud.

Ubud, nowadays is much more crowded than 6 years ago when I arrived here for the first time. But the atmosphere is still the same. The cosmopolitanism and the vibe is puh…really fascinates me. It is indeed the centre of art of Bali ( or probably of the world?). Everywhere is just like an art gallery. Thanks God, I was not rejected in the $7 Bungalow near monkey forest which to me is just wonderful – though still, I talked to the staff in English in the beginning, expecting that I am just the right local person to be accepted to be one of their guest.

And I probably am their right guess. At least, one of the staff now has a good hitting partner to play badminton! Voila, this is really a holiday. Played a badminton with a cheerful staff, walked in the rice paddy field near the monkey forest and then just jumped to the monkey forest without paying ( I ashamed doing that but I was just following many villagers who just went back to their home which just at the right back of the forest), and dressed beautifully to have a good night in a live music bar along the main Rd where a couple from Germany invited me for another beer – only to make me stay there longer.

Woke up in the lazy morning and told the staff to bring a coffee, a pancake, and fruits to my verandah…puh… what a beautiful life ( hey, the breakfast is included of the price!). Now the time for renting a bicylcle up and down the hills and the rice paddy field which ended of shopping some masks for my blue wall in Jakarta. Having a lunch in a warung just near the rice paddy field, and finally I ended on a a very cozy internet café and drinking a Balinese coffee. Hmmm…what a BEAUTIFUL world.

Carpe Diem!

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