Monday, February 24, 2014

Eat Pray Love in Bali

Pretty woman, Julia Roberts starred in Eat Pray Love Movie adapted from Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir. Juliaplayed a divorced and depressed writer who travelled to Itali (Eat), India (Pray) and Bali (Love) to seek solace and find herself. Bali was the last place Liz stopped after stuffing herself with pasta, pizza and gellatos in Italy and prayed in India. I couldn't help but get all excited watching the movie, tracing the places that Julia Roberts had gone in Bali. There is something common that I share with Julia and Liz. We straddled bikes in Ubud and fell of the bikes. In my scene, I was not knocked down by Javier Badiem but I lost control of my bike on a steep road in Monkey Forest. After visiting Bali several times, I upgraded my bike to a cute but rugged jeep which is similar to the one Felippe was driving in Eat Pray Love.

In the movie Julia visited Pak Ketut Leyar, a toothless dukun (shaman) who taught her about looking the beauty of life through her liver (heart). A toothless Pak Ketut was hillarious in his broken English. Pictured (top) was a scene where Julia visited Ketut. If you go to Penastanan Village in Bali's central foothills, a dull, blue-stained signboard points toward the house of Ketut Liyar,a ninth generation of medicine man. Ketut is now famous with Julia and Liz's fans seeking for his advise and for palm reading.

Shooting of Eat Pray Love were done in Banjar Bentuyung, Banjar Nyuh Kuning, Pengosekan, the Ubud Art Market and Monkey Forest Park, all within Ubud/Gianyar Regency and some other venues including Jimbaran and Uluwatu in Badung Regency.
Pictured below is Julia Roberts and Javier visiting Ubud market.

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