Indonesia - Bali - Ubud

Ubud is the cultural place in Bali.

On the way there, Paul and his Mum stopped off to see how textiles were made and went to a silversmiths home to see silver and bought a necklace and ring

There's loads of temples to go around

And a monkey sanctuary

The carvings are everywhere

Some quite big

And old style buildings

With lots of history

You had to cover up going in some of them

Most of the Balinese are Hindus

They say the Royal Palace is probably around 1000 years old, but they don't know and things have been maintained as they go along so nothing looks too decrepid

Except maybe the public phones, but aren't they everywhere?

The King's wife had died earlier in the year.  They'd already had the funeral.  It took 2 months to build a house upon which to cremate her.  2 months after that, another ceremony was due and lots of workers in the palace were preparing

With some help.....

This is the public main entrance to the palace

On the corner of the palace, a lookout can be positioned

I look like that sometimes after a heavy night on the town...

Not a path you wanted to meet a fat person on!