Bali's picturesque town Ubud, where the cosmic and the commercial meet

Neeta Lal steps into Ubud, a town where the cosmic and the commercial meet

Ever since I watched Julia Roberts cycle through Ubud’s lush landscapes in Eat, Pray, Love, I’ve been dying to do the same — bike through the region’s green rice terraces, drink in a beautiful ancient culture and breathe in its fresh mountain air without fretting over AQI and SPM.

No place in the world could be greener than Ubud. A picturesque town, it nestles amid rivers, valleys and rice paddies in the cool uplands of Bali, one of Indonesia’s 17,000 islands. Neatly rowed rice fields, shiny foliage and moss-sheathed brick walls pepper its landscape like confetti. The rainforests are speckled