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Finding answers for a Bali tourist
Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree message board is one of the busiest on the web. Once is a while it can be intersting to see what comments people post. One recent post asked a question which I thought would be fun to answer.
‘I’m travelling to
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Camera Shopping in Kuta Bali
As a lot of travelers have figured out, cameras are a pain in the ass. You spend a lot of money on them, then have to worry about them getting stolen, lost, damaged. You will probably run into situations where your power runs out, you have nowhere to downl
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Bali Forum Threads for the week of February 12, 2007
Check out the topics currently being discussed on the Bali Forum at BootsnAll:
Dietary restrictions can sometimes be a challenge when you travel, especially if they conflict with the cuisine of the place you’re going. Fakeplasticdreams is a practic
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Visiting Tanah Lot Bali
A sunny afternoon turned into a cloudy afternoon. That didn’t stop Devin and I from making a trip to the coastal temple of Tanah Lot. From Seminyak we headed to the small village of Beraban via Canggu, before hanging a left and finishing at Tanah Lot
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Warung Segara: Tanah Lot Bali
Tanah Lot is overloaded with commercial stuff, but today I did buy something. As Devin and I checked out the fresh water spring at the base of the temple, it began to rain. The obvious thing to do was to head for one of the warungs overlooking the temple a
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Its ‘handbags’ as graft commission investigate Mahendra
Former Minister of Justice, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, the same guy who introduced the VOA fee, reduced the Tourist Visa from 60 to 30 days and tried to abolish the Department of Tourism, is having it out with another member of the Indonesian government. Mahend
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Perama Bus: The user friendly travel service for Bali & Lombok
Perama Bus is the private bus line that serves Bali. Visitors to Bali usually make their first contact with Perama, at the small office located at the bottom of Jl. Legian in Kuta. What Perama offers, is a comfortable bus, that has a fixed timetable and se
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Interview with Devin from Oregon USA
Devin Skolnick is a 29 year old repeat visitor to Bali. He enjoys nature, art, good food and genuine people, over the party scene. I asked him how this latest trip to Bali is going.
Baliblog:
Devin how long are you travelling for?
Devin:
I’m travell
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Roads in Bali: Keep your eyes peeled
Learning to ride a motorbike in Bali, is also a crash course in Balinese road design. My neighborhood particularly, Seminyak, has been massively affected by road construction for several months. Things are looking up though, after the new storm drains were
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Australia warms citizens about Sulawesi
Australia has warned its citizens to avoid Sulawesi, which it says, could be the target of new terrorist attacks. Australia still has a travel warning out on Bali. I guess you can’t blame them after the Sari Club, but you’ve got to read between
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Visa changes in Indonesia
The VOA (visa on arrival) system is now well understood, both by the tourists to Bali and the people who implement it. I personally think it sucks (charging people to come into your country!!!), but what the heck, this is what they do over here.
Indonesi
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Bali weather: February 19th 2007
We have just had a decent weekend of weather, with mostly sunny days and scattered clouds. Days have been steamy, uncomfortable for people without AC, but just something to live with for expats.
Yesterday I was strumming my guitar in my upstairs room, swe
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Jakarta: A tourist’s impression
Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia. I have been through Jakarta at night on a local bus and flown in and out of the airport. Both views of the city reminded me of Los Angeles, big, a ton of traffic and brown smog. A French expat once told me you can’
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Lombok: A quiet alternative to Bali
Lombok and the islands to the east are an adventure waiting to happen. People wanting to get a feel of what Bali was like in the 1970′s should catch a ferry to Lombok and step back in time. Recent visitor Adam reports getting around was easy, even fo
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Guitars in Matahari Kuta Square
This afternoon it clouded over and threatened to pour. Stopping at Matahari department store in Kuta Square, I went to the sporting goods section on the 3rd floor for a soft guitar case. My neighbor, Barbara from England, is learning guitar and gave me enc
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Flu bug in Seminyak Bali
Illness an occasional fact of life in Bali. This weekend Ika has been down with a fever. She has a massive headache, fever interspersed with chills. Strangely her sister is down with something as well. Many illnesses share similar symptoms, so its anyone&#
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Trail bike in Bali
Back to renting a scooter for while. This afternoon my friend Palu and I went along to meet the owner of the trail bike I was intending to buy. Having the money ready I was interested in his opinion.
After few minutes of riding it and looking it over, he
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Ubud: The perfect base for a peaceful Bali trip
Visitors to Bali looking for an alternative to Kuta, Seminyak, Sanur or Nusa Dua, need look no further. Ubud is close by, but on an entirely different direction than those other places. The temple dances, upacara and costumes are taken more seriously in Ub
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Central Java dengue hotspot
The wet season is always associated with a higher incidence of dengue fever. Right now Central Java, including the place Ika is from, Semarang, has more than its fair share of the disease. Here’s more from the Jakarta Post.
C Java has 2,767 dengue f
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Meeting Kore Petersen in Legian Bali
Kore Petersen is a Baliblog reader who has been coming to Indonesia for years. Kore’s Indonesian family is from Malang in Java and I got to meet his in-laws as well as his wife Lucy and son Evan. Kore and family are staying at one of the family apart
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