Ubud

About Ubud

Ubud has drawn artists, healers, and seekers for over a century — and for good reason. The town sits at the intersection of Bali's artistic and spiritual traditions, surrounded by terraced rice fields, sacred temples, and jungle-draped gorges. It is the home of traditional Balinese painting, wood carving, silver work, and dance forms that are performed nowhere else on earth with the same depth of tradition. Yet Ubud is not a museum. It is a living town where these crafts are still practised daily, still taught in family compounds, still offered to the gods at temple ceremonies that happen every few days somewhere in the surrounding villages.