The biggest industry on Bali next to growing rice and burning everything in sight is tourism. Ubud is touristy but not in the way you re used to. Here in Ubud it s mostly art and crafts, much of it locally made. Everyone, it seems, can paint, carve, make kites, weave, or build furniture. It s amazing.
Different villages have different specialties.
In one village they make silver jewelry. In another stone statues. In Ubud it s art. Every home and store has a sign out front advertising their genre, often offering to make it to order. While You Wait.