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Bali Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bali, Indonesia
Bali Fever
This is a top pick! ... of my own. It is strange that with all the recent media hype around bird flu we thought very carefully about coming to Indonesia, even though the human impact has so far been very slight. Over 20,00 people have contracted Dengue fever in Indonesia so ...
Christians in Bali
This is a top pick! ... congregation was about 600 strong, remaining steady, if not growing a bit. Marcus also explained the heirarchy of the church Indonesia and how the cathedral had been built in 1959. I was pleasantly surprised when Marcus volunteered to drive me to ...
Our Encounter with the Local Constabulary
This is a top pick! ... They have been friends ever since and Renate flew to Indonesia to meet up with us. She and Elenka wanted to see how Indonesia and its wonderful inhabitants might have changed after almost a quarter of a century. Back then, leaving Kuta for the ...
A lot of new experiences...
This is a top pick! ... and many Balinese that I spoke to said that the normal June-August high season had not happened this year because of the Bali bomb last October.Consequently, each tourist that was on the beach got harrassed by lots ov vendors selling wood carvings, fruit, ...
I almost missed this!
This is a top pick! ... Mongolia's 3-0 or not. I guess Mongolia is still in the lead due to the fact that I scored an away win against Indonesia, answers on a postcard! While checking my emails the evening before I was leaving I found an email from Air Asia. Basically they'd ...
USS Liberty
This is a top pick! ... came into view, and your typical Balinese postcard views arrived. It took over 4 hours to do something like 90 ks, but this is Bali, and we were no rush. Once in Tulamben, we were measured up for our wetsuits and BCDs, changed and then into the water for ...
Off for the Weekend to the beach!
This is a top pick! ... . So we stopped and Gabe and I had a Boston Creme donut. And I got an iced coffee too. Bali really isn't infected at all with corporate giants or gigantic white resorts, and it was surprising to see something familiar ...
Pradha Guest House
This is a top pick! So seeing as I have made the Pradha Guesthouse my home for 3 weeks (Feb 18- March 12) and Bali is hurting for tourists, and the staff has become my family, and they asked me nicely everyday to post pictures so that all my friends in America will come to ...
Monkeys everywhere!
This is a top pick! Monkeys on my head, monkeys opening my bag, reaching down my shirt, monkeys sitting on my lap! That was how I spent my day. I went to the Monkey Forest (and I'm going back again tomorrow to do it again because I loved it so much). In ...
Off to Singapore tomorrow
This is a top pick! Tomorrow I am taking an evening flight up to Singapore. I've been reading up on the city/country/state (who knew it was all three?) today, and I expect that I'll stay there about 5 days. After that I'll head up to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ...
Bali Farmers Market
This is a top pick! One morning I got up early and visited the Farmers Market in Ubud, and this is what think I thought I ...
Still chilling in Kuta
This is a top pick! ... sarongs and sunscreen. The nightlife is great, tons of great restaurants and bars, and the best bit is - it's all still at Bali prices. Not nearly as cheap as Ubud and Lovina, but you can still get a nice dinner in a nice restaurant for ...
Last day in Ubud - More Monkeys!
This is a top pick! ... we'll all hang out for Easter weekend in Kuta. After that, who knows? Maybe I'll use my last two weeks in Indonesia to bounce up the islands and head toward Thailand island hopping. It might be cheaper, and more fun!, than a flight up ...
Ceremony in the Ubud Temple
This is a top pick! So, this is not a tourist thing. I was given specific instructions on how to dress and act in order to attend a ceremony in the Village Temple in Ubud. There are ceremonies all the time, I think sort of like how Christians and Jews visit ...
Tourist central!
This is a top pick! ... from the swimming pool, where everybody heads after coming home from the clubs! I'm off to one of the Gili islands tomorrow by speedboat- a sort of paradise island with only 800 people for 2 days before returning to Bali Sunday for one last ...
Would you like an egg in your coke?
This is a top pick! ... he told us what things should cost for the rest of our trip and talked about the US election and how he didn't like the Bali bombers. It was a little challenging for me to pay attention at 3 a.m., but Travis was the center of attention, so I didn't ...
On the Island of the Gods
This is a top pick! ... . As I no longer have a camera you will have to look at their website for pics! (http://www.ritzcarlton.com/resorts/bali/) It was difficult to tear myself away from the infinity edge swimming pool overlooking the Indian Ocean, but somehow we found time ...
Kuta Part 2
This is a top pick! ... head off for a short break, try and recover and then get back to Kuta for a little more before surfing before leaving Indonesia. The night before I left though there was another terrorist attack. I actually heard one of the explosions but I didn't think ...
I'm falling in love with Ubud
This is a top pick! ... to think, but the price includes breakfast too (not continental, a real sit down eggs deal) I just can't believe it. Bali is not a wealthy island, but Ubud is filled with folks who make money off the tourists, and so they are among the ...
Chapter 22: "Yes taksi?"
This is a top pick! ... the town with an eye towards stability rather than interesting architecture. Not that I blame them. The flight on Garuda Indonesia airlines to Bali was pleasant enough and fairly short. Customs & passport control went smoothly and efficiently, so ...
Beaches, Babes, and Bombs
This is a top pick! ... up in Kuta on the wonderful island of Bali and decided to pause for a day to collect ourselves. More than any other country, Indonesia required quite a lot of advanced planning. Mostly because it has so many islands. So we had to reserve a ...
Paradise Found
This is a top pick! Denpasar and Ubud Arrived at the airport with a place to stay in mind and a vague plan about spending a few days in Ubud and then going to the Gili islands for a bit of beach and diving. Well we never made it to the Gili islands but then you can't do ...
Soccer in the temple
This is a top pick! ... is the Mother Temple of all Balinese Hindu temples, and its at 1026m on the slopes of Mt. Agung, the highest mountain in Bali. We had halftime when a funeral procession going up into the temple cut through our makeshift pitch. Later the summit of Mt. ...
Paddies
This is a top pick! ... after, we arrived. We took a room 20 minutes out of the centre, and outside were paddie fields. Were we experiencing the real Bali? Well, the main road kind of felt more like Byron Bay, full of new age shops !!! We jumped into the monkey forest ...
Travel from Ubud to Lovina, with a few stops...
This is a top pick! Traveling from Ubud on the south side of the big volcano in Bali to Lovina Beach on the north side of the island means going up and over the biggest volcano on the island. On a road barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other, with no line ...
Bali part 2 ------------- well i have had a ...
This is a top pick! ... dart out and catch moths and flies keeping the place mossie free for us! Anyway gotta go, hope that satisfies your curosity about Bali a bit, I am loving it and am planning a quick dart to the Gili Isles tomorrow for the perfect beach that i have ...
Modern Traditional Dance
This is a top pick! After our flight arrived at the Bali airport we caught a taxi to Kuta and then a shuttle bus to Padangbai. We had been here before, briefly, while we waited for the ferry to Lombok. This time we had popped back to do some diving. But ...
Two month anniversary - deep and meaningful
This is a top pick! ... to the day that I left comfortable ol' Sydney and hit the beaten track for thrills, adventure and a little internal analysis. I'm in Bali so it's taken me 60 days to travel to one of Australia's favourite overseas holiday destinations - all of 8 hours ...
Arrived in Kuta today
This is a top pick! Today was just a travel and errands day. I took a 9am shuttle from Lovina to Kuta, and shared the ride with a nice couple from England that have been traveling for a few months as well. They were just in Thailand and Cambodia so I picked ...
Bali
This is a top pick! ... a shuttle the second day to Ubud the nearest city in Bali to my hotel. I can't say enough about the people of Bali, especially Dek. Indonesia is a third world country and you can defiantly tell that as soon as you arrive but the people have a kindness ...