Uluwatu Temple – Bali Indonesia – Fire Dance & Monkeys

For our last day in Bali we decided to go to the popular Uluwatu Temple. It is renowned for its magnificent location, perched on top of a steep cliff approximately 70 meters above the waves.

Also they have a Kecak Fire Dance, it is an elaborate performance based on the Hindu epic, Ramayana. It’s performed by about 50 people with a large portion of them being tasked with chanting the famous “chak, chak, chak” sound and performing basic routines while seated on the ground.

Best time to see it, at sunset so you have the amazing backdrop of the setting sun, and is when we went. It gets SUPER busy though, so we got our seats an hour before it began.

Exploring the temple was great, but there are a lot of monkey around. They are very smart and cunning and will actually target high value items. Then they will trade them for food or water.

We were lucky that we did not get anything taken, but did have a small encounter with them.

Our next destination is Cairns Australia, where we will have our epic 1501 miles or 2416 km road trip.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching!!