Visiting Ubud, Bali

Bali is a great World tropical destination with the unique culture of Hinduism. This Indonesian island has many cultures and great nature - and the one famous city of Bali is Ubud. Ubud is located in the middle of Bali at Gianyar Regency, so you cannot find a beach here. It is famous by the beautiful look of rice field terraces. This city population is about 8000 people.  This city is the important place of medicinal herbs and plants. That’s why the name of this city is taking from word “Ubad” that’s mean medicine. In 8th centuries legend told that Javanese priest, Rsi Markendya, who meditated at the confluence of two rivers at Ubud locality of Campuan, found the Gunung Lebah Temple on the valley floor, the site of which remains a pilgrim destination.  

Ubud is the center of Balinese culture such as dances, sculpture, painting, etc. That’s why there are many museum in Ubud, including the Museum Puri Lukisan and the Agung Rai Museum Art. You will find many art shops at Ubud.

The main street is Jalan Raya Ubud runs east west through the center of town, there many top world class villas and restaurant beside the street. 

Puri Saren Agung is a large palace located at intersection of Monkey Forest and Raya Ubud roads. It is the home of Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati (1910-1978) the last King of Ubud. It is also theUbud first Hotel from 1930s. Visitors can usually see the dance performance there at 7.30 PM daily.

Ubud tourism is focuses on culture, yoga, and nature. Contrast from another part of Bali, Ubud has forest, rivers, cooler temperature, and more quiet. Many boutiques style Hotel in Ubud offer a Spa treatment and mountain trekking. Spa treatment in Ubud is Highly recommended with it’s high class service.

Ubud was voted as the best city in Asia for 2009 on Conde Nast Traveller Magazine Readers’ Choice. 25,000 readers were surveyed with avaluation criteria Atmosphere?ambience, Culture/Site, Friendliness, Lodging, Restaurants, and Shoping. Balinese felt very thankful when they heard about the good news. The Julia Robert filming in Ubud (Eat, Pray, Love) making increasingly popularity of Ubud in the world. Many foreigner called this place as their second home. I think it is good to say Ubud is the best destination in Asia.

So welcome to Ubud - Bali  

Original article: Travel Guide: Visiting Ubud, Bali - written by agus putu agung on Factoidz

Ubud is The Best Place in The World For Living

Ubud is the center of Balinese culture. Almost of the Balinese there is expertise many Balinese art, such as Balinese dance, sculpture, making jewelry, painting, etc. The town is beautiful with many rice-field terraces, quite enough for get relax.
This place giving Bali many award for best world destination.

Kokokan Village: Humans and Birds life in harmony

Desa Petulu:The village is situated at 4 km North of Ubud village. In Petulu you can find thousand of herons or called as 'kokokan' in local language. The birds are called ‘kokokan’ in Bali and in English are called ‘egrets’ or ‘bitterns’ or ‘The White Heron Birds’. These herons leave the village in the morning looking for food and return at night to stay on the various trees at the village. It is predicted that these birds came to the village in the year 965.
The best time to visit this village is around 5 – 6 pm at local time, to see them flying back to their nests on the trees after in the day flying out over the island, the villagers provides some places as view points for visitor to see the birds activities. They provide a book about The Village History and also you can buy soft drink from them.
The villager believes that the white heron birds are bringing joy to them and they live together in harmony.

How to find the place?

enroute from Ubud, jalan raya to direction jalan Hanoman but passing through peliatan and turn to the left from a monument in the intersection ubud-gianyar-peliatan. about 5 km away can be seen icon of kokokan village, small monument of the egrets. from here, turn to the left and hike up about 2 km away.  

Ubud the view of rice field terraces

Ubud is a town in central Bali, Indonesia. Ubud is a favourite traveler's destination in Bali and is famous as a centre of Balinese culture, arts and crafts.

The famous from Ubud is the beautiful rice field terraces. 

From Ubud we also can see the beautiful mount Agung view. 

This place have a lot of villas, thats very quiet. Good for you to have meditation in the middle of great nature landscape.

Julia Robert's Make Movie at Bali

Sony Pictures Entertainment will later this year film the Bali scenes of the screen adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best selling autobiography, Eat, Pray, and Love (EPL). Julia Roberts stars, as the book's narrator, and Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner will produce the film.

The Balinese provincial government confirmed on Friday it had issued the permits needed to shoot the film, with Roberts being scheduled to appear on set from Oct. 16 to Nov. 6.

The movie based on Pushcart Prize winner Elizabeth Gilbert's spirituality/travel memoir, “Eat, Pray, and Love” is about her self-discovery and soul-searching after her nasty divorce, exploring through Italy, India, and Bali, the last paradise on earth. After reveling in cuisine in Italy and exploring spirituality in India ashram (hermitage), she will find a balance between worldly pleasures and divine ascendancy in Bali where she will study with a ninth-generation medicine man and immerse in a love affair.

Director, Ryan Murphy, is currently scouting locations in Gianyar, Karangasem and Jimbaran, with much of the filming planned around the hillside village of Ubud. The shoot is planned to take place at the traditional markets and Monkey Forest in Ubud, along with the nearby villages of Demayu and Tegalalang, and in Badung, Uluwatu and Nusa Dua.

Best Ubud View

Ubud is around 45 minutes drive from the international Ngurah Rai Bali. Ubud is picturesque township and visitors have been attracted by its charm and beauty for decades. The Ubud of today is far from undiscovered. Hotels are plentiful; home stays and Indonesian guesthouses (losmen) are easily available to the foreign tourist. Ubud is popular in part today because it is the best place in Bali to break out of the tourist mode and get off the beaten path. Ubud is attractive to tourists for a variety of reasons. On a relatively small island with a horde of attractions, Ubud is centrally located; many tourists simply base their entire stay in the city and travel to other destinations from Ubud. Accommodations in Ubud are also somewhat more reasonably priced than in the beach towns of Bali. But atmosphere is perhaps the major attractions. One writer sums it up this way: Kuta is madness, Sanur is sterile, and Nusa Dua is culturally isolated; Ubud is the place to go.

Beautiful Picture Of Ubud Rice Field (BALI)