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Both adults and children dream of visiting a real chocolate factory. This opportunity is provided by the island of Bali, within which there are two chocolate workshops. You will have the opportunity not only to see the process of producing chocolate products, but also to taste them and purchase the delicacy you like. Therefore, if you are a chocolate lover, then do not miss this opportunity.

Charlie's Chocolate Factory

Located on the ocean coast among palm groves, Charlie's Chocolate Factory is one of the most interesting and visited places in Bali. It received its name in honor of its founder, Charlie, who arrived on the island from California itself. He was so amazed by the beauty of the tropical region that he decided to rent land here and open his own business.

The fabulous design of the factory territory will appeal to both adults and children. Here a feeling of another reality is created, which is why time flies simply, unnoticed. Near the factory there is a soap factory, where soap is made using coconut and aromatic oils.

The territory of the factory is thought out to the smallest detail. Fairy-tale houses, reminiscent of hobbit houses, are surrounded on all sides by tall coconut palms.

At Charlie's factory, chocolate is made only from natural ingredients, which makes it one of the most delicious. There is nothing unnecessary in the composition, no dyes or flavor enhancers. At the entrance to the territory there is a cafe where you can order chocolate and coffee drinks, average cost which starts from 35 thousand rupees.

A wooden ship is installed near the coast, which serves as an excellent decoration and goes well with the dark volcanic sand. Anyone can walk along the deck of the ship or look into its cabins.

It is best to visit the factory on weekdays, as the number of tourists increases significantly on weekends. Entrance to the territory is only 10 thousand rupees, and this is if you do not plan to purchase anything in factory stores. If your goal is to bring some kind of memorable gift with you, then you can get to the factory completely free. It is open from 9 am to 5 pm.

What can you buy?

The range of chocolate products produced at the factory is presented in a local cafe. There you can buy several types of chocolates or enjoy a glass of aromatic coffee. The establishment sells:

• chocolate bars with cashew nuts;
• chocolate spread;
• hot and cold chocolate;
• different kinds coffee;
• coconut syrup and milk.

Note! Charlie chocolate can be bought not only at the factory, but also in company stores located in Ubud. The cost of products in such shops is sometimes lower than in the factory itself. Product prices start from 35 thousand rupees.

Soap factory

On the territory of Charlie's factory there is a soap production workshop. The soap products are also completely natural; no artificial additives are used. Soap from Charlie's factory is especially popular not only among tourists, but also among the local population. Balinese often come here to buy proven natural products.

The range includes about 10 varieties of soap. Each product differs in both smell and weight. Due to the fact that they are used exclusively natural dyes, all soap products have a certain expiration date. The following products can be purchased at the soap factory:

• soap with a variety of scents, including chocolate, coconut, cinnamon, and various herbs;
• sun protection cream;
• oils and lotions.

All purchased products are wrapped in organic packaging. The only drawback of the soap factory is the relatively high cost of the goods.

How to get there?

Charlie's factory is located in the eastern part of the island. That is why the road to it will be long. It takes at least 1.5 hours to get from Denpasar by your own transport, and about 2-2.5 hours from Kuta. Excursion tours are organized here every day. To go on such a trip, you can book an excursion to east Bali on this website.

See the location of Charlie's factory on this map.

Chocolate Factory Pod

The Pod factory is located among tropical forest, which is why there is always a quiet and calm atmosphere here. There are never many people here, which allows you to fully explore the territory and get acquainted with the chocolate production process. You can observe this procedure through glass. You will witness what ingredients are added to chocolate, how it is all mixed and poured into molds. During the tour you will have the opportunity to taste 4 types of chocolate. The most interesting thing is that on each tasting jar it is indicated what and in what quantities is included in the chocolate bar.

In front of the chocolate factory there is a cafe where you can not only taste different types of products, but also purchase the option you like. There is also an aviary with a bear and a cage with birds. Another interesting service of the factory is elephant riding. It is not provided free of charge, of course, but a lot positive emotions will give guaranteed.

The Pod factory is open every day; it welcomes its first visitors at 8 am, and at 4 pm its doors close. Price entrance ticket is 95 thousand rupees. And if you decide to order sightseeing tour for the factory, you will have to pay 250 thousand rupees.

What can you buy?

Today, the Pod factory produces more than 20 varieties of chocolate. These can be products made from cinnamon, mint, chili pepper, cranberry, sea salt, rosella flowers, cloves and others.

The cost of chocolate products starts from 48 thousand rupees. For this price you can buy regular chocolate bars with various fillings. The cost of the gift package, which will contain 6 different chocolate bars, is 200 thousand rupees. The price of a kilogram of chocolate is 300 thousand rupees.

Pod can be prepared at the factory chocolate candies according to your special order. You need to choose what kind of chocolate (dark or milk) they will be prepared from, and then decide on three types of fillings. There are a lot of them at the factory, these can be various types of nuts, marmalades, coconut shavings, etc.

Note! The entire process of producing chocolate products is done by hand. You will feel the difference in taste with machine-made devices after the first tasting of the products.

How to get there?

The Pod factory is located 19 kilometers north of Ubud. Finding her will not be difficult, as there are signs with her logo throughout the city. But even if you take a wrong turn, you can always turn to local residents who will show you the way.

You can go to the factory either as part of an organized tour or on your own. In the first case, you need to contact any excursion agency and select the date you like. During the tour there is usually a Russian-speaking guide who will tell you a lot of interesting and useful things.

Solo travel also has a number of advantages. You will not depend on anyone for time and will be able to stay at the factory as long as your heart desires. See the exact location of the Pod factory on this map.

A visit to chocolate factories can significantly diversify your leisure time in Bali. These are the places where you can taste truly delicious natural chocolate and see the chocolate production process with your own eyes.

All chocolate lovers will definitely love the unusual chocolate factory, which is located in the east of Bali. This wonderful place creates the feeling of a real fairy tale and delights not only children, but also adults. What could be more beautiful - five original bamboo huts on the ocean shore, where they make delicious natural chocolate. Just the limit of imagination for a lover of chocolate and exotics!

Small houses with conical roofs and round windows are surrounded by tall coconut trees. It is here that the production of Balinese chocolate is located. The factory is open to the public and here you can buy any delicacy you like.

The factory's helpful employees will definitely treat you to something delicious. The range of sweets here, of course, is small - chocolate, coconut syrup and honey, but this is perfectly compensated kind attitude, exotic setting and beautiful tropical landscapes.

It is not at all surprising that this chocolate factory has become one of the local attractions that tourists who come to Bali are sure to visit.

It so happens that this is not the first time I have been to Bali. Therefore, most of the attractions there are already familiar to me. But you still need to have fun somehow! So we decided to experiment and go to a chocolate factory called “Pod”. The factory is located near the town of Ubud. You can get to it from the center in 10-15 minutes. Theoretically, the factory can be found even without using a navigator, since in the vicinity of Ubud I often saw signs with the factory logo. And local residents will be happy to show the direction of travel with their hand, since this place is known to everyone. We arrived at the factory at about four o’clock in the afternoon. And I must say, we are very lucky, since their last chocolate-making session starts no later than four. Knowing the Balinese, this time can be safely reduced by an hour. So, if the road is not close, you should take care of the time in advance and calculate everything so as not to come in vain.

Arriving at the place, I could not think about anything other than chocolate. Its sweet aroma wafted everywhere! At the reception desk we were shown cocoa fruits, told about their types, differences and methods of preparation for making chocolate. Of course, I tried each of them. The taste was very different from the chocolate everyone is used to, but the aftertaste remained exclusively chocolate.

Next, we were asked to fill out questionnaires and choose materials for making sweets: milk or dark chocolate and three fillings to choose from - from all types of nuts to coconut flakes and gummies. My choice was milk chocolate with peanuts, cashews and hazelnuts. And while the confectioners were preparing our sets, we could watch the chocolate being made. The guys poured it over surfaces and shapes so carefully and soulfully that it seemed that their chocolate would come out even sweeter and more pleasant than usual. Still goods self made very different from the factory ones. Having mixed the chocolate on the table to the desired consistency, the confectioner measured its temperature with a special device-gun and poured it into small bags.

Watching this process was so unbearable that I ran to a local cafe-shop, where you could buy everything that could be made from chocolate. Armed with a chocolate bar and a mug of hot chocolate, I went back to waiting for my tools.

After a couple of minutes, my molds arrived and I began to carefully place the nuts in the molds and fill everything with chocolate, periodically tapping them on the table. The activity is both incredibly simple and exciting. And if you take into account the fact that periodically chocolate ended up in my mouth, I would have been doing this all day!

There was one child with us and, it is worth noting, that he was completely captivated by this entertainment. We used the leftover chocolate to draw mustaches and beards on each other and coat our hands. And now the forms are filled, the fillings are eaten, and it’s time to freeze the candies. Despite the fact that the freezing lasted only about 15 minutes, we were out of sight for half an hour, or even more. The fact is that around the factory there are wonderful places for walks.

Do you think hobbits live here? But no! They make dark chocolate here and the soap is not hobbits at all... And the smells are such that you want to eat both!

This fairy tale for adults and children was created by the enterprising American Charlie. His name is Charlie. He had been looking for something all his life and when he got to Bali, he found it. He fell in love with this place and first built a small soap factory here 15 years ago; about 5 years ago he began making chocolate from the fruits of the chocolate tree grown on the island. Then coconuts from palm trees began to fall into his hands, and he set up the production of coconut body oil and “tasty creams.” But they say that he fell in love, for the most part, with a beautiful surf spot in the Ocean))

And it’s a fairy tale not only because it’s delicious, but because there are houses all around with bizarre broken shapes: either huts or spaceports made of dark wood. Charlie himself calls it BAMBOO PYRAMIDS. You don’t immediately understand where you are. His friends helped him build his first pyramids; now he is building a ship-cafe to pamper tourists with hot chocolate overlooking the waves.

Fabulous, because every respectable guy can jump off the swing between the palm trees and fly towards the waves, even with a big belly!! The swing is simply huge! To climb them, they even made special steps. They forced me to ride twice to overcome fear and have fun. Happened.

Unlike the swing on the lookout above the Buyan and Tamblingan lakes, where I posed, frozen over the cliff, here you do what we called in childhood, “Moon”. You swing 180°. And one boy in the yard was doing “Sun” and broke his hands, but that’s a completely different story...

It’s nice that no one fusses over anything here, but they willingly show the production of chocolate with 65% cocoa content, I talk about “my Nutella-Nuteresa,” and the workers bang with hammers, tearing down architectural patterns.

Soap from Charlie In my hands I have the fruit of a chocolate tree The same chocolate

It's a pity that Charlie himself was not at home - he went to Jakarta. I was very interested to know how he came up with the idea of ​​packaging soap in this romantic story "A Soap Story By Salvador BALI" It would seem that there is no greater pop - handmade soap in Bali, but all the supermarkets are overwhelmed! And he managed to present it so subtly and creatively! And the prices are quite reasonable.

You can see not only how soap is made, but also how it is packaged. In total, the factory employs 14 people. And it seems that half of them are Balinese, who hand-pack every piece of fragrant, while their babies crawl around. Very old-fashioned - homely.

For Christmas we decided to go to one of the most famous (advertised) attractions in Bali - Pura Tanah Lot. This is one of the seven water temples that protect the island from evil spirits. The temples are located in a chain so that they are visible to each other (only I didn’t notice the neighboring temple). Usually tourists are brought here closer to sunset, because the view immediately becomes much more picturesque, and at dusk they put on a performance, you can watch Balinese folk dances. We wanted to come during the day so that it would not be so crowded. We were mistaken, there are always crowds of not only travelers, but also Balinese themselves from all over the island, because the temple is very revered.

During high tide it is impossible to approach the temple; the road to it is flooded. And we arrived at low tide (it happened by chance), so we were able to walk a little next to it and admire the crabs. They are not allowed inside, you can only walk nearby. What I liked most was another entertainment - standing on the rocks and admiring the breaking waves that periodically splash over tourists who come too close to the edge.

It is impossible to walk for a long time near the temple because of the heat, and there is almost no shade. We quickly walked around the park, admired the rock, a kind of “natural arch”, on which the Pura Batu Bolong temple is also located. In a matter of minutes, we drank all the water we brought with us and headed back. In total, it took us an hour to explore the sights, and entrance, by the way, costs about 600 rubles. for two. It seemed to me quite an expensive pleasure compared to other prices.

The following weekend we headed to the east of the island to visit Charlie's Chocolate Factory. According to information from the Internet, Charlie (American by birth and surfer by vocation) moved to Bali and organized environmentally friendly chocolate production. It is obtained by cold pressing cocoa beans, which grow right there. It is believed that raw cocoa powder is the most beneficial, it is rich in antioxidants and magnesium. Actually, there are 4 chocolate factories in Bali, excursions are organized there, you can see the entire production process from the very beginning and, of course, taste the product. I chose Charlie's Factory because of 1) the bamboo houses, which are somewhat reminiscent of fairy-tale gnome dwellings, 2) the picturesque location on the ocean, near one of the most beautiful beaches islands, 3) swings.

We drove to the factory for about 2.5 hours on a moped, the fifth point was pretty tired during this time. But we looked eastern part island, which is much quieter and cleaner than Kuta, here, it seemed to me, there are more local residents, and not immigrants from other islands of Indonesia. The eastern side of the island is mainly chosen by those who want silence, lovers of scuba diving and snorkeling (snorkeling). All major diving schools are located here. The road is quite picturesque, passes through the jungle and small villages, construction of new houses and hotels is actively underway.

Google maps let us down a little; we didn’t turn straight to the factory, but a little earlier, we had to walk along the embankment. As it turned out, it was for the best, because cunning local guys, when approaching the Factory, stop cars with tourists and demand a bribe for travel.

While we were driving, we were pretty hungry, and we were also late for the excursion, which takes place at 9 am (we arrived around 11). We decided not to be upset, but to drink cold chocolate (like hot chocolate, only cold) and eat pancakes with coconut syrup. The guy, who was at the same time a caretaker, administrator, salesman and cook, quickly organized drinks and pancakes for us. And that’s when a local beggar, a huge goose, started pestering us. This insolent fellow did not leave our table, hissed, pecked at Carimajo’s leg and tried to reach the plates. He didn’t react to our indignant cries; he didn’t care much about blows on his beak with a boot. The feathered insolent reacted only to the call of the multi-functional guy, immediately ran to him, but as soon as he realized that there was no treat in sight, he returned to us to continue the terror.

Besides us, there were several other visitors, so the guy was simply torn, but at the same time he looked absolutely calm. After we had refreshed ourselves, we went to taste the products. The assortment is very small: round dark chocolate candies with 86% cocoa content, crunchy chocolate, dried Goji berries (sour), crushed cocoa without sweetener, chocolate spread with the addition of coconut syrup. To be honest, we tried a lot, it’s not for nothing that we traveled so much! The chocolate is delicious, the mood immediately lifted, and we went to test the swing. Absolute delight!

After the chocolate factory we went to the white sand beach or Virgin Beach. I read that this is almost best beach on the island. You won’t be able to get to the beach itself, the road is blocked, you need to leave the bike in the parking lot, give some money to the local guys (about 100 rubles) and go down the mountain. Along the entire coast there are restaurants that offer free sunbeds and showers if you order food from them. Prices, by the way, do not differ from Kuta; lunch and drinks for two cost us about 800 rubles. I want to say that we really liked the beach: clean and, most importantly, cool azure-colored water, sandy bottom, absence of waves, a picturesque rock on the side... This beach somehow reminded us