Recommended hotel in Ubud area is Ubud Village Hotel, located at the heart of Ubud. It is around 48 minutes from International Airport Ngurah Rai.

The review said they love the pool, not a large complex, and a funky open air bathroom. See the complete review here.

UBUD VILLAGE HOTEL
Jalan Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Phone: 62 361 975 571
Fax: 62 361 971 333
www.theubudvillage.com

Another best deal in Ubud is Uma Sari Cottage, review said they were paying less than the advertised rate, 8 units in four 2-storey buildings, The pool is smallish but the cleanest I’ve seen in any hotel, anywhere.

See their review here.

Uma Sari
Jl Bisma, Ubud Bali Indonesia
Phone / Fax: +62.361.981538
www.umasari.com

Today around 7.00pm when I was watching local TV News, the screen suddenly change into a warning announced about “Earth Quake in Bengkulu (Sumatra - Indonesia) and a possibility to trigger Tsunami in that area”. Shock with that announcement, I changed the channel, and found several TV also have the same warning.

Soon after, the breaking news announced that there was a 7,9 in scale earth quake shaking Bengkulu and around including Padang (West Sumatra). And the quake also shook Jakarta and as a result, many people runs out from high building and create panic situation.

And the latest news said, that there were 3 serial quake follows and situated in different places. Malaysia, India, and some other country in Asia, warned their citizen to stay away from the beaches. There is no impact to this island for its distance thousand of miles from Sumatra.

As always happens almost every year, Bali will be flooded by domestic tourist from Java for a full week as a result of a week holiday from the government to celebrate Idul Fitri.

So everyone will not gonna missed that great opportunity to go for holiday with the family and Bali is one of the destination. Most of those family travelers will ride to Bali with their private cars and SUVs. Some may in groups by big Busses.

The traffic will be worst at the following streets:

- Jl. Imam Bonjol heading to Kuta Area, bottle neck at the traffic light before the Gas Pump near Gelael Supermarket.
- The By Pass Ngurah Rai Street, Bottle neck at Simpang Siur Circle, Sunset Road.
- and of course streets like Jalan Legian, Jl Pantai Raya Kuta, and Kuta Square.

Try to avoid those streets at rush hours especially during week-end. The Idul Fitri this year will fall on 13th and 14th of October 2007.  If you don’t know those street, visit this site for detail map.