Twenty Reasons to Visit Ubud

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Kick-start your visit with an iced cappuccino at Casa Luna, part of a guesthouse and cooking school run by Australian expat Janet DeNeefe.

For a hot, hip caffeine hit, head for Seniman Coffee Studio to sip siphon-dripped creations from recycled glasses.
Ubud's ultimate "coffee temple" is FREAK - Fresh Roasted Enak ("delicious" in Indonesian) Arabica Kintamani (a Balinese mountain) Coffee, which you can have with "cashew, cow or coconut milk".

The Bali in “Eat, Pray, Love”

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The Bali you encounter when you first arrive at Denpasar International Airport couldn’t be further from the one depicted in “Eat, Pray, Love,” from steel-grey waters and trash-covered beaches in Kuta, to the disproportionate numbers of foreigners in could-be-charming places like Seminyak, to the blatant commercialism that has nearly wiped out the semblance of anything local around the island. It’s hard to imagine, upon arriving there, why Julia Roberts would hang out in Bali, let alone film the movie “Eat, Pray, Love” here. -

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