8Morning broke too early for me 330am Bali time, 530 am Cairns time, I decided that 5hrs sleep was not adequate, so calmed my breathing and woke again at 730am - much better! I showered, packed my day bag and ventured out into the courtyard which was dappled with light and the sounds of cicadas and crickets. The pet Burmese cat groomed then had a drink in the fountain, while ut looked at the little bantam chicks longingly.
Lovely Kadek came out and served us timbals of nasi kuning, omelet, perkadel jagung and vegetables, topped off with fruit platters , watermelon juice and our second kopi tobruk!
After our tiring day yesterday we totally modified our day today. Last night we discussed going to the Holy Water Temple, however that changed when I mentioned that we really wanted to go to the Monkey Forest. Yanick brought the car around and off we drove through the cool winding roads to central Ubud, bananas were purchased at a roadside stall as we knew the prices were exorbitant at the park. We got out at exit 3 and bought our tickets and went off on our humid walk past the abandoned mossy temple to be regaled by the monkeys cute antics.
Highlights of monkey magic, 1. A unfenced precarious path beside the creek was not barricaded anymore, so we had an invigorating gambol. 2. A monkey pulled out a woman's hair weave and climbed down the bridge and off into the rainforest, luckily she roared in laughter, her friend videoed it so she will have years of dining out on that tale! 3. When Ruaela went to get her mangosteen and water from her bag, no sooner had she pulled the zipper when a ballsy monkey grabbed the entire bunch of bananas off her and whisked her mangosteen out of her hand, cracked it and ate it nonchalantly.
Today was our nature day so a flutter in the Kemenuh butterfly garden was next on the agenda. Ruaela insisted that butterflies love sodium and used my facial excess water to lure butterflies onto her fingertip, one was then left to have a rest on my right cheekbone. Morning tea consisted of cendol masquerading as frozen peas encircling a blob of ice, extremely uninspiring we also had empty samosas, to be fair the tempeh goreng was pretty impressive.
Yanick was going to take us to a warung but we were unfortunately too full to take up the opportunity. So we went to stop number three which was the Tegenungan waterfall, I am ashamed to confess that due to the humidity and my sore knee Mali and I waited a partial way down the staircase and Ruaela went down alone to swim, she reported that she had found a temple beside the creek, prior to the waterfall overflow so she enjoyed a secluded splash there.
We trudged up the stairs and we had a little light lunch of roasted corn, martabak and lumpia. After Mali had given an old lady collecting recyclables some money we jumped into the car and drove back to the salon. This time Ruaela had the Balinese massage and Mali and I had a great creme hair treatment that left our heads tingling. I prefer the massage personally and if my credit card worked here I would get one tomorrow. Unfortunately we have to tighten our belts.
Mark Weins Bali food trail inspired us to go to the Gianyar markets and try the nasi campur it was good but not saucy enough for me. The highlight of the market experience was buying a chobek and ulekan for Ruaelas 18th birthday she has waited for six years. The girls were very upset when I bargained with a bag vendor but I got a good deal so it was smiles all round, A durian later beside the car and then homeward bound to Asik house. Yanick was proud of his successful day trip !
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