If you walk 1km due south from the central crossroad of Ubud along Monkey Forest Road, Bali’s most famous shopping and eating street, brings one to a small grove of ancient trees and winding paths around a death temple and graveyard which is sanctuary to a fearless troop of long-tailed macaques. The monkey forest would be a most peaceful sanctuary had the resident monkeys not become so fearless of strangers in recent years. Some say these monkeys are vehicles for the capricious spirits of the yet unsettled dead, and wise visitors leave it to others to bring gifts of peanuts and bananas