Central Bali

We woke up at 8 a.m. and had breakfast at - they served cup of coffee with awful toast (bread with egg). At 9 a.m. the guy named Nyoman took us for Bali sightseeing. Today we went to Central Bali, and the first place we seen was Monkey Forest, Ubud. It was about one hour away from our guesthouse. We paid 20.000 RP for entrance fee. They were selling bananas for feeding monkeys, too. They were nice monkeys, not naughty ones. Some tourists played with them and feeding them. The weather was rather humid than hot. There was ceremonial temple (a ceremony was in preparation while we visit) at the forest, and bathing temple too, with a nice waterfall. Outside Monkey Forest there were many shops for tourist but we didn't buy a thing. Next, we were after some Bali Coffee Agrotourism. A company named Oka set some stalls with fresh Balinese coffee, fruits and spices outskirts Ubud. We bought coffeee, cocoa, dark chocolate, lotion and massage oil for 800.000 with 15 % off. I bargained down to 650.000. It was so expensive anyway. We tried Indonesian fruits - Salak, Passionfruit, Tamarillo and Sapodilla. We've seen many rice fields on the way, and a woman praying to rice gods. After stopping for coffee we traveled to Kintamani village to see Mt. Batur, an active volcano. We paid 3.000 RP for parking. The weather was very cold. We had buffet lunch at Panca Yoga restaurant for which we paid 180.000 RP (75.000 RP per person plus 20% government tax). Next we went to see Tampaksiring, a village where Holy Springs & Temple are located. We paid 30.000 as entrance fee and we saw Balinese bathing in the pool. There were two pools there - one for when someone had bad premonition. The other one is for those who want something good happen to them and in exchange they promise the gods to do good deeds. Before entering the temple, we had to wear sarong. We saw some ceremony again. We walked inside and seen the beautiful hot springs. On the way back we stopped for some shopping in stalls near the temple. I bought colourful small countainers for my colleagues at work (I bargained 100.000 RP down to 60.000 RP for two packages), and small drum (bongo) for my nephew (75.000 down to 20.000 RP). After that we returned back to Ubud to see Ubud Palace and we found lotus garden near café called Cafe Lotus. We sat there for avocado juice and mixed fruit juice (57.750 RP, from which there was 10% governement tax and 5% service charge). At last, we traveled to painting gallery. They had many nice paintings, but expensive so we didn't buy any. Today's trip costed us 400.000 RP. In the evening, we took motorbike to find some place for dinner. We had crab coriander soup and deep fried prawns at Snapper Corner (not far away from our guesthouse). We also had papaya juice and small water. It costed us 96.800 RP. On the way back we stopped at internet café (10 minutes for 3000 RP), but internet was very slow so we didn't browse anything.