Petulu Heron Bird Colony Watch Point — Attraction in Bali

Great if you're interested in birds or do birdwatching. Bring a camera and a pair of binoculars. It's just a plain viewing deck with plastic chairs. They serve local beer, but that's pretty much it. If you get there early (before sunset), you can talk to the guy that tends to the place, and he will tell you all about the birds. Also do some research and reading about the place before going because they have legends and stories about the herons that nest there. My partner and I enjoy birdwatching. We got to the place before everyone else, so we were able to chat up the guy that takes care of the place, who genuinely loves birds. We didn't have to pay for anything. We just took a motorbike to the place. Aside from the herons there also are a lot of kingfishers and munias in...

So we walked from our hotel in ubud to go see the herons.. we paused a taxi driver who said that the herons won't be there as they were off out on the hunt for food. We nearly turned back, but as we were most of the way there, we carried on We found the stairs up to the viewing platform where there were benches to sit on. We didn't see any herons initially as we were looking in the wrong place. If you look to the left,that's where the herons are. Up in the tops of the trees.There wasn't many but enough to satisfy us. Whether more would be there at dawn/dusk, I don't know It was a nice walk there but take drinks as there's not a...

Was super excited about this.. but let down when I got there. Place is nice.. ans could see a small part of sunset from the balcony.. owners were nice... but unless you run a good zoom lens and camera you wont get any good pictures and see much. Most of the birds actually just flew to forest 300m away so we saw obly large flocks at distance. Not worth the 20 000 unless u really into bird watching (not photography). Best part was playing table tennis at down stairs with lokal teenagers after I left the balcony...