Eat, Play, Laze in Bali: Ubud

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. I remembered reading this book years back and sighing ahhh.. she found love in the end, how romantic. Fast forward to date, little bubbles popped. With a clearer head, I had summarized my 3 month vacation as Eat, Play, Laze instead. Eating in South Korea with my sister. Playing and meeting strangers in China and of cos nothing happened in Bali as I spent time lazing under the sun.

And Bali is really a good place to love laze. With good sunshine, green open paddy fields, clean beach with blue sea and lotsa time on hand, it is a place to find one's inner peace. Who would not have fall in love here WITH the place?

Puri Bayu Guest House: A nice and clean Balinese guest house sets beside the rice paddy field with a great sunset view. Dewi is a great host and I enjoyed the breakfasts made by her. It was great lying on the divan out on the veranda, reading a book, enjoying the occasional breeze and the rustling of the grass.







Vicious cycle: Here I participated in an interesting food chain. Human > rice > duck > human.



Campuhan Ridge Walk: A 2 hours quiet walk in the early morning through the tall alang-alang grass in search for more rice fields. Blue sky, green grass, soft breeze, sunshine and beautiful me. Ahh.. Ubud, I'm in love with you...One Love - Loveholic.

Remember to bring an umbrella as it get hot towards noon. I followed The little pink journal blog to find the trail.









Fields of Gold: May is harvesting time and you can see farmers busy among the many rice fields along Jalan Bisma.









Spiritual Balinese: Bali is a land of thousand temples. You can see temples in almost every household. Local people pray and lay offerings on the street daily to their Gods so remember to watch your step.





On the monkey trail: Down Jalan Monkey forest to visit the lazy monkeys and up Jalan Hanoman in search of restaurants with rice paddy view (there are plenty).