Alas Kedaton

Super cool hidden gem, we were almost the only people there. Hundreds of monkeys, not aggressive like in the touristic places. You walk with a local guide through some shady paths and small temple structures in the forest and can feed the monkeys peanuts. At the end there are a few tame bats you can hold. Prices: Ticket 30.000 Peanuts 5.000 Guide: tips Holding the bat and giving it juice: 20.000 Professional printed picture with bat: 70.000 Can be hard to get a taxi afterwards. Ideally talk to a driver that you can call when you're done so they come pick you up. There are toilets at the site, and you can probably store luggage at the local guide's shop, but when we were there, there was no food for sale.

Sep 20, 2024

Full of monkeys and they are not aggressive. The tour guide is nice and she can handle the monkeys so that they won't disturb the visitors. We feel safe visiting there.

Oct 13, 2024

Perhaps this place was more catered for tourists in the past. The day we visited, there was some kind of festival which was interesting to observe. We were approached by someone who we thought was an official temple guide who took us around the grounds and feed some monkeys, but in hindsight I didn't learn much about the temple from her. In the end she turned out to be a shop keeper from the delipidated shopping area of the temple grounds, borderline begging us to buy something. For a better monkey feeding experience, I'd rather visit Monkey Forest. There are also better looking temples with more historical interest around Bali too. Alas Kedaton was definitely not my favourite stop on our day trip, perhaps it's more a place for locals.

Oct 19, 2024

Mostly abandoned but still nice atmosphere, a lot of monkeys and a big family of cute flying foxes there. You can rent a local Bali hat to make a picture. Entrance ticket 30k.

Dec 13, 2024

Lots of monkeys and bats. The guide was friendly and spoke pretty good English, the animals are cute, not at all agressive and they don't steal things from you!

Oct 06, 2024