After a great nights sleep (I always wanted to sleep with the nets over the bed...how romantic!) we're off through the Monkey Forest to the town of Ubud for a day of shopping. But first we stop at the Alam Wangi Spa to make appts for our spa treatments later that day. In one of the clothing stores, in Ubud, I happened upon an English lady who complained of being tired of shopping (blasphmy!) and bargaining. Bargaining?? I'm so glad I ran into her as I had her teach me how to bargain. It was an art that I was soon to master. Think they are charging too much? They tell you how much it is, you give a price you are willing to pay, they will counter, and so on. Sometimes just walking away saying it's too much and they will come chasing you down the street (or yell from one vender to the other) to get you to come back and buy it at your price. Ahh, this is working!
The Monkey Forest - exactly what the name implies - is in between our resort and the town of Ubud. The monkeys are called Balinese Macaques. The forest is their sanctuary and they ask that you not feed them although at one entrance they sell bananas just for that reason. Right now, there are only 300 but as you can see from our pictures there are a lot of babies this year.
After a hard day of shopping we're off to the spa for the Javanese Lulur treatments. Side by side we get traditional deep tissue massage followed by a body scrub and rub down with yogurt then to a flower bath. Life here is so hard .
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