Our last two days in Bali were spent by the water in South Kuta. Swimming, reading and drinking watermelon juice at our hotel pool, and laying down at Balangan Beach. Both days we rented a motor bike from our hotel in the afternoon to explore. We rode to Uluwatu Temple, one of six key temples that are believed to be Bali's spiritual pillars, to experience th[...]

We asked our driver to drop us off at one end of the Jalan Raya Ubud, the main street that runs through the center of town. We did some temple sightseeing, had lunch, shopped at the market for souvenirs and afterwards met up with our driver again who drove us to the famous monkey forest. The Monkey Forest is definitely on the top of the must-see list in[...]

While traveling through the Thai Islands on a tour in 2016, I really wished that a cooking class had been one of the activities included!! So when I planned our trip to Bali I knew that I wanted to find a cooking class for the husband and I to take part in. We both like to cook, so I think this may become a traveling tradition. I went with Lobong Culinar[...]

After visiting Batuan Temple, we continued on to Taman Ayun Temple followed by a stop at a near by plantation to try the famous Luwak Kopi (coffee). Pura Taman Ayun was built in 1634 by the Raja of Mengwi, I Gusti Agung Putu. It is a family temple, where the deified ancestors of the Raja Dynasty of Mengwi and important gods of other temples are honored.[...]

Our first full day in Ubud we hired a driver from the villa we were staying in to take us around to multiple places on our list. We visited a few temples, tried Balinese coffee/tea, explored the Monkey Forest and shopped at the Ubud Market! Batuan Temple, a local Hindu temple located beside of the main road from Denpasar to Ubud was our first stop. For o[...]

On our second full day in Seminyak we decided to book a tour with NEWbali, something we never really do when we travel. A fellow blogger friend, Margo from The Overseas Escape did it when she was in Bali and it looked amazing. What I hadn't realized is that it's a private tour!! It was just the two of us, the driver and our travel host. Once we arrived in e[...]