Just finished 4 nights in Ubud which is in the centre of Bali and now back in Kuta. Ubud was really nice and chilled after the manicness (is that a word?!) of Kuta and our accommodation was a nice simple bungalow next door to the pool.

There were 3 of us in the room, me, Lindsay and a girl called Anna that we had met in Kuta and we had all decided that we after a week of bad food, alcohol and not looking after ourselves that Ubud was a chance to repair some damage! We had 3 full days and we started it off with a spa session - the 'special' package which included Balinise full body massage, body scrub, body wrap, flower petal bath (with ginger tea and fruit - not in the bath though!!), facial, manicure, pedicure and hair treatment. Total cost was under 25 pounds and it took 5 1/2 hours!! Needless to say we felt very chilled and pampered by the time we came out!

The second day we went white water rafting which was really good fun, and the final day we did a full-day cultural mountain-biking tour. This was excellent and we found out all about balinese culture, plus we got taken to a workshop where they processed coffee from cats poo - apparently people pay a lot of money for this kind of coffee, but we didn't try any!!!

The food in Ubud was amazing with lots of fresh ingredients and fantastic fruit juices which were out of this world. I now feel refreshed for my time back in Kuta........although we did have chips for lunch today so old habits die hard!!!