green and grey all the monkey way

it's hard to believe that we can build something "big" and still maintain natural atmosphere in the area. well, it's not a big problem if we want to build a workplace as the main interest and insert some natural element to make it fell cozy. But something happens when we do it in opposite way. When we find a very beautiful place, and want to build something to make it easier to get or stay there, maybe it’s seems like very good thing to do.  But when money start to rolling and human lost his control,, guess what happens. It will be like the “building” erase the natural engrave, make the tourist feel like the building is the show, not the nature.

mome and her kiddy

But, surely I’m glad to say that Bali has not like that in total yet. Although Kuta have change into a metropolitan area, another place is still remaining natural, or some other maybe say, native. Well, I’ll try to capture those images of native beautiful village next time, but now I want to show you a beautiful place where nature, big-facility-make-by-human, and culture make a balance and beautiful mixture: Ubud’s Monkey Forest

small river in the middle of forest

 well, i'm say it a balance mixture because we can still fell the forest at all,, green lichen, pure river, tree all around all ahead and all above us, fresh air that wont make you freeze like AC do,, but with facility build very well, beautiful-clean-anti-slippery-road, uniformed friendly officer (truly Balinese ^_^), easy access to here,, and they still let the temple and traditional graveyard in duty to be used in local ceremony.. really a good balance :)

take a nap

protecting

watching over

sosialize

"she is mine :p"

the next photograph is not in the monkey forest, i take them on a restaurant not to far from the forest. and the last one?? it's just an ordinary river. you will find many of them if you get lost in Bali by motorbike. if you heading for fabulous place in a fabulous car through a fabulous way, you wont find it

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