UBUD

Ubud is small district (Kecamatan) that formerly was a small kingdom but has become a famous tourist resort in recent days. The development of this village had begun with the arrival of Walter Spies, a Moscow born German artist, in the years of the twenties, and he established an artist group "Pita Maha". Later, Rudolf Bonnet, a Dutch painter, was appointed by the institution of the museum to manage the traditional painting gallery in this village, which now is known as "Puri Lukisan" museum, where the best traditional paintings are housed. Ubud is famous for it is the "Center of Arts", as well as its monkey forest, and its suspension bridge over the river of Campuhan.

Campuhan (this means "the meeting of two rivers") is a beautiful river, where the people, either the visitors or locals, go to bath in the open air behind the shady bushed steep banks.

Another particular aspect of Ubud is the artists, to whom everybody could easily ask to paint their portrait whitin an hour or even less.

Unlike the other resort, Ubud is a typical Balinese village which is "still going strong", untempted by the tourist flows but keeping its atmosphere as what it naturally should be.