Ubud Monkey Forest: A Place To Meet Adorable Friends and See Their Natural Home

Ubud has a lot of famous places as tourism object. Spending your holiday in Bali without putting Ubud on your holiday list maybe will be your regret. Why? because Ubud will show you something different than Kuta or Seminyak. If Kuta is famous for the beach, sunbathing, malls, then Ubud will show forests, rivers, traditional markets, and other cool places. One of the most iconic places in Ubud is Ubud Monkey Forest Bali. Over 100.000 tourists have visited this place each month, Amazing right?

If you wondering what is that place? That is a home for our adorable friendly friends. Their home is a natural rain forest and you can see they are playing and jumping from one tree to another tree, or you can see how mommies monkey takes care of their children so well, or you will fall in love with the cuteness of babies monkey. The point is in Ubud Monkey Forest Bali you can see monkey’s natural habit in monkey’s natural habitat without disturbing them. Animal lovers maybe will put Ubud Monkey Forest on the list of their favorite places in Bali.

Ubud Monkey Forest is located in Padangtegal Village, Ubud Bali. You can go there by your self using maps with your motorbike or with a tour guide. For your information, If you use online transportation, you only can use it when going there. For turn back or if you want to go around Ubud, you need to find a local driver and guide tour there. So, I think it will be simple to book a tour before going there. From Kuta, you will need around 1 hour to reach Ubud Monkey Forest Bali, but it also depends on the traffic. Some cool places to visit nearby Ubud Monkey Forest are Ubud Traditional Art Market, Ubud Palace, Tegenungan Waterfall, Tegalalang Rice Terrace and Coffee Plantation, and some traditional famous restaurants.

Ubud Monkey Forest is a home for over 700 long-tailed monkeys with more than 180 species of trees in 12,5 hectares of forest. The monkeys divided into six groups and each group has the leader and their own territory. You also can feed them with the food that you can buy inside. For completed know this forest you will need two until three hours. If you are brave enough you can ask the staff to take a cute picture with the monkeys. The most requested picture is a selfie with a monkey. So on your picture, the monkey will look like hold the camera and you will behind the monkey. It looks so adorable. Make sure to have this kind of picture.

Another unique thing in Ubud Monkey Forest is this place not only a home for the monkeys, but a forest is also a holy place for Padangtegal’s villagers. Why? because it has three temples inside it. The names of the temples are Pura Dalem Agung Padangtegal, Pura Beji, and Pura Prajapati. If the temple held a ceremony, you can see it directly. If you visit this place, you will meet the adorable friends and also get to know about the Balinese temple. So for the village resident, Ubud Monkey Forest is an important spiritual place, economic, educational, and a conservation place.

For all the reasons above, this place is really interested to visit right? Make sure to visit Ubud Monkey Forest and meet the adorable friends.