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Bali Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bali, Indonesia
Quiet side
This is a top pick! With a plan to try and fly out of Bali to Sydney 1 day early, we headed off to Sanur, near the airport but more of an upmarket beach resort in oppose to Kuta. We set off to find Quantas in the straining midday heat only to be told that the service had ...
Gunung Batur and Pura Besakih
This is a top pick! ... the jeep and headed up the Gunung Batur volcano. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Batur) It's the largest and most sacred volcano on Bali, it's erupted two in the last 100 years. At the top is a big crater, with two big summits inside it, and ...
Giggling..
This is a top pick! ... that would enable me to get past his desk. Apparently , I still had to procure a VISA to allow any kind of entry into Indonesia. They are $25USD and enable you to stay for thirty days. 'Even though I was only staying in departures for 4 hours?!' ...
Bintang Beach
This is a top pick! ... group of temples built on a cliff face for the sea gods. It was typical Hindu/Angkor style with ratless Ganeshes in abundance. Being Bali, there were loads of little monkeys everwhere. We took our shots and then it was time to move on to the airport, but ...
Rice fields upon Rice fields
This is a top pick! ... restaurant (Arie's Warung) and had black rice pudding with coconut milk for dessert which was really tasty. Today (Monday) we're going to head towards Lombok (the next island to the East of Bali) and visit the small Gili islands for some beach ...
Flower baths and tropical views!
This is a top pick! Spent the afternoon of the 27th at the Cendana Spa having a traditional Balinese massage, flower bath, jacuzzi and sweet ginger tea! All for less than $25USD and with tropical paradise views. The rooms are open to the outside but shaded with a view of ...
Hello Kuta
This is a top pick! ... of clubs and bars. It is intense. We saw the memorial there to commemorate the 200 or so young people who were killed in the Bali bombings of 2002. Pretty sad. We learnt that one of the bombers was tracked down and shot near Yogja. It is super cheap to ...
A Big Green Dream
This is a top pick! ... dying for business. How sad that California is so far away! Would love to come for weekends, or a week here, a week there. Indonesia is a mixed bag, especially since it is basically a series of islands. All of them somewhat different. Bali is 95% ...
Amed, Padangbai
This is a top pick! ... trumps. We relocated just across the road and onto the sea front side settling for a beautiful detached bungalow at Junkung Bali. With a incredible outside bathroom with palm trees and shower water coming out of a bamboo pipe it was ...
Far North
This is a top pick! Ubud to Lovina, one word of advice, if you book your ticket through Perama, book a ticket with a stopover i.e. a ticket to Lovina with a stopover in Ubud, saves you alot of money. We found out the hard way! Lovina was hot, so hot and black volcanic ...
Happy Halloween in Bali
This is a top pick! Happy Halloween from Bali! Not really celebrating it here but if I was staying in Kuta I could because yesterday I saw a huge sign for the all night party this one particular bar is having. Kuta seems like a huge tourist scene on the beach...think Cabo ...
Bali
This is a top pick! ... one has accumulated over the last few years adventures I actually had enough miles to fly for FREE in business class to Bali. Unfortunately Singapore Airlines had managed to lose a few thousand air miles of Martin's which meant he only had enough ...
Lost
This is a top pick! ... , and in November the phone rang. It's Dave here, get your bags packed and ticket booked as we are going diving in May in Indonesia !!! Being one who likes to collect countries, we didn't say no. The seeds were sewn, a dive a trip was planned, now all we ...
Still, still chilling in Kuta
This is a top pick! Yes I'm still here in Kuta. Still hanging out by the pool, on the beach, daily spa visits and eating at great restaurants with obnoxious sunset views over the beach. I've bought three watches and a pair of sunglasses on the beach (nice ...
Reunions
This is a top pick! ... back, hopefully to see Jo tomorrow. The Next Day We walked a bit around Kuta, stopping to see the memorial for the Bali bombings. Loads of Aussies killed. Very sad. As the arvo dragged on, we went back, found out our mate Davey had booked in, ...
Go to Bali
This is a top pick! After booking our ticket to Ubud, we decided to do some Kuta style shopping, well we had a fair while to go. After bartering hard, purchases were made, lunch was eaten and then we were packed onto our sweaty minibus bound for Ubud. As we set off inland ...
Bob's Wedding
This is a top pick! ... before I was planning on leaving for Costa Rica on my way to spend a year in South America, my buddy Bob tells me he's getting married in Bali and asks if I can make it. Of course, I say yes, when is it? June 10, 2006. So I scrap my plans and book a 1 ...
Senses Overload
This is a top pick! The moment we arrived in Ubud I fell in love. The streets are lined with cute boutiques selling local artist designed jewelry, yoga style clothes, aromatherapy soaps and other handcrafts; not to mention that every other door leads to a spa, guest house ...
The sights of Bali
This is a top pick! ... out three totally slow ones. It's more expensive but worth it! I met three women there who are teaching in Indonesia right now. They were on holiday in Bali. I joined them for dinner at an Indian place and we had a fun night. One of them had been to ...
Beautiful Bali
This is a top pick! ... have masses of crowds and competition getting into the better accommodations in the town. Ubud is the cultural centre of Bali. Saw a gamelan dance show (traditional dancing based on stories from the Hindu scriptures), with a very trance-like music ...
Riding
This is a top pick! ... so was the rain, but we carried on, and the trip was great. It didn't matter that the bikes were shitters, this was the backwaters of Bali, and there was not another tourist around !!! Back in Ubud, we ate, I complained, and then it was time to leave !!! ...
Kecak Kecak, Quack Quack
This is a top pick! ... of course. The memorials were very cool but the scenery was also amazing. This is what I thought of as Bali. Rice fields, beautiful green jungle, rivers and waterfalls. We were led to a waterfall, past homemade bee hives and ...
Monkey Forest
This is a top pick! At markets in Bali they offer special morning prices or sunset prices and if you make the first purchase of the day they'll take your money and rub it all over what they're selling for good luck. Today we were all hurting from twisted knees and ankles and ...
Today we had an EARTHQUAKE !!!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... rest of the day past with no more shaking, it turns out around 50 people had been injured in other areas with building damage too but we had been fine. We got some food then in the bus to the airport, definitely won’t forget Bali in a ...
New found Shangri la
This is a top pick! Today i got the feeling back for traveling that I first experienced in Mexico City 6 months ago. Although i completely loved New Zealand and Australia, I wasn't real travel and seemed just like being back in England with the western culture and easy ...
Relaxation
This is a top pick! ... to appease them all. After that we rode to Jimbaren for lunch. Jimbaren is where 2 of the latest bombs went off in Bali. We noticed that Japanese people have a separate menu with prices even higher than ours. We thought we got overcharged. The surf on ...
Couchsurfing Bali
This is a top pick! ... get ready for the night out. We did a little pre-partying at our villa, drinking “arak” cocktails, a drink native to Indonesia similar to soju. A few played drinking games while the rest of us viewed the day’s photos on my laptop. A few ...
Sleeping, Chilling, Surfing
This is a top pick! 17:38 I thought I set my iphone alarm for 10 but it went off at 11 as I hadn't changed the time. I just got some breakfast though and went to the beach and got a bodyboard and joined in with trying to catch some waves. In the 2 hours I was out I only ...
Being bums in Bali
This is a top pick! Well after that mammoth journey at last we are here. The room I had booked online was horrid so we got up in the morning and moved to the place next door - it was cheaper and much nicer. With that done we headed out for a wander as it was cloudy ...
Bali at Last
This is a top pick! ... this leg of the trip only to soak up the sun, relax on the beach and try go get better at surfing. Dave had never been to Bali before, but I was done being ambitious when it came to traveling so we did not sway far from the beach. We did, however, make ...