A forest full of monkeys, Ubud, Bali

After the short boat crossing back to Bali, past the mountains in Lombok, I arrived in Ubud, Bali, with Jodie and Mel from Manchester, who I'd met in Gili.

 Leaving Gili T - Lombok's mountains 

Ubud is known to be a good place for trekking and seeing beautiful rice fields. We went to explore the monkey forest. On the way, we passed some temples and rice fields, which at first, appeared to be just waterlogged trenches. I only recognised them as I had seen similar ones in Vietnam. 

The ricefields on the way to the forest

In Bali, 90% of the population are Hindu so the temples are very different to the ones I'd seen in Vietnam (where the population is Bhuddist.)

           A temple 

In contrast to the Monkey Forest I'd been to in Lombok, there were monkeys everywhere here! 

Monkey right at the entrance

These monkeys aren't cute and cuddley  like people imagine, but actually quite vicious! We were a bit wary of getting too close to them as some of them were jumping on people! There was a few monkeys who had little baby monkeys clinging on to them.

A Mummy monkey with her baby

The forest itself was pretty cool though, with lots of different statues and interesting looking trees that gave it a jungle book feel to it. 

     Some of the monkey statues

A load of monkeys playing.. Or picking each other's flees! 

There was also a deer enclosure though we didn't get to see much of this as loads of monkeys started to come towards us, so we didn't stay long! 

      Next to the deer enclosure

We went back to our hostel and chilled out for a while, before booking a trip for the next day to climb a volcano to watch the sunrise! My friend Laura from uni had just got to Bali so we met up with her, and Rich who she was with, briefly after dinner, then got an early night to prepare for our early start!