This is a very popular tourist location where the monkeys roam free and the visitors walk along paths amongst the monkeys. Our bus driver said we should spend between 60 and 90 minutes there. Signs warn you about the rules for the park. They emphasise that you must look after your posessions because the monkeys will try to take them - including hats, spectacles and cameras. They say the monkeys can be quite aggressive. We hadn't walked very far into the park before I felt a monkey trying to get something out of the pocket in my pants. I turned around and yelled at him which made him show his teeth and snarl at me. I moved on quickly. Soon afterwards another monkey snatched the water bottle that my granddaughter was carrying. We then watched in amazement as the monkey twisted the top off the bottle (just like a human). He then poured the contents on the path and started drinking the water off the path. Later, people told us that the monkeys sometimes swig directly from the bottle. We saw monkeys jumping onto someone's lap and other monkeys sitting on someone's shoulder or head. In one case, the monkey was gripping the girl's forehead and seemed as though he was about to gouge her eye. Plenty of people were posing for photos with these monkeys. Towards the end of our tour, one monkey got hold of the bottom of my daughter's dress and looked as though he was going to climb up. We chased him off. This was an amazing expereience.

The Monkey forest is “a must” if you go to Ubud, and I don’t see why it is. Yeah, it’s fun for maybe half an hour to see all of the monkey playing around and everything, but you can even see that from outside without even paying the entrence fee. Also, we thought that it would be much bigger, you can actually see the whole “forest” in about 15minutes. I wouldn’t recommend going to Ubud just to see the Monkey forest as it’s very touristy. But if you are going there anyway, just be careful and follow the rules, one of the monkeys stole my glasses but the staff got it back for me thankfully! 😅 But there is no reason to be afraid of the monkeys as there is staff all around the property, and they are very friendly👍🏻

We felt we couldn’t leave ubud without doing the monkey forest. We are glad we did but Felt it would have been fine to miss it also. You can walk there at the end of the Main Street in ubud. Maybe 10 min walk from the centre of town. We had read and heard so many scary things about the monkeys we were probably a little jumpy and scared. They are certainly cheeky and unpredictable, to the point we felt it hard to relax but the grounds are just beautiful and if you have some distance from them they are a pleasure to watch. My 10 years olds were ready to go out of fear once we had been there for about 15 mins. There was a storm overhead too so that was making them act a little differently. I would do it again but wouldn’t be worried at all if I didn’t.