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| Ever since the German artist Walter Spies arrived here in 1928, UBUD
has been a magnet for any tourist with the slightest curiosity about
Balinese arts. The people of Ubud and adjacent villages really do still
paint, carve, dance and make music, and hardly a day goes by without
there being some kind of festival in the area. However, although it's
fashionable to characterize Ubud as the real Bali, especially in
contrast with Kuta, it actually bears little resemblance to a typical
Balinese village. Cappuccino cafés, riverside losmen and woodcarving
shops crowd its central marketplace and, during peak season, foreigners
seem to far outnumber local residents. There is major (mostly tasteful)
development along the central Monkey Forest Road (now officially renamed
Jalan Wanara Wana), and the peripheries of the village have merged so
completely into its neighbouring hamlets that Ubud now covers some nine
square kilometres, encompassing Campuhan, Penestanan, Nyuhkuning,
Peliatan, Pengosekan and Padang Tegal. |
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