Indonesia Animals and Nature

Riding elephants is often touted as one of the top "must-do" experiences in Bali. Is it everything you would expect? Yes! Should you still do it? Um, maybe not.

OMG, OMG! So, we were lucky enough to visit a sea turtle sanctuary earlier on in our trip to Bali. But this was a whole...

We were travelling from Legian to Ubud, and we stopped off at this butterfly park in Kemenuh. The entry price was a little higher than an average entry price to a tourist attraction in Bali, but we had heard good things so we thought we would give it a go.

Well, the Bali Elephant Safari Walk was an experience, this elephant park is based in Taro, Ubud. I wanted to have an experience of riding an elephant but also wanted to go to a place, where they respected the animals as well.

Before we start, I had done some reading on this place on a particular Facebook group (i won’t give them any exposure because I thought the page was poorly managed and freedom of speech was not allowed).  They had mentioned being bitten by the monkeys and having them climb all over them.  I was feeling quite anxious about heading up here.

We love a good botanic garden.  We have certainly been to some of the best in the world (Cairns and Singapore spring to mind more than others). So when we were asked if we wanted to visit the botanic gardens in Bali, we just couldn’t say no.