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Communicating in Indonesia: Slang terms
Indonesia is rich with languages. The national language itself, Bahasa Indonesia, is a conglomeration of over a dozen languages. As in every language, new words and slang terms are rife.
Many Indonesian slang words are simply shortened versions of the ori
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Puri Cendana Hotel Seminyak Bali
My friend Toby from Oregon is visiting soon, with his young daughter. Man is he in for a shock! Extremely hot and humid right now, and just eating today, I was sweating profusely. Lucky are the local people who work in an AC environment.
The others, who w
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Beautiful Bali Indonesia tourism catchphrase
Indonesian VP Yusuf Kalla has made a request to the island’s tour operators, and the Culture and Tourism Ministry, to start using the expression ‘Beautiful Bali Indonesia’.
Many people in the tourism industry have complained for a long
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Bali Forum Threads for the week of December 4, 2006
Check out these topics currently being discussed on the Bali Forum at BootsnAll:
In Perth, philosopher caught a whiff of something that reminded him of Bali. What out-of-Bali experiences have you had that transported you back?
PeterCatchpole will be livin
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Hari Raya Kuningan in Bali
Selamat Hari Raya Kuningan. Saturday December 9th is Kuningan, the end of the Galungan celebration, in which ancestors descend to Earth. On this day the Gods and spirits return to heaven. Around Bali, people will be attending ceremonies at their family tem
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Bali to be World’s top destination by 2011
Bali is to be one of the top 10 destinations, if not #1 in the world, by 2011. That is the goal of local travel industry big wigs.
The Bali Times reports, that even though Bali has been hit with 2 major terrorist attacks in the last 4 years, it still beat
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Bali ideal locations for conferences
Bali has so much to offer a visitor. Like a chick who can count, owns a Jag, juggles 6 balls and can tie a knot in a cheery stalk with her tongue, Bali is a multi-talented babe.
One aspect of the travel industry that most of us are unaware of, is conferen
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Climbing Gunung Abang in the highlands of Bali
Gunung Abang is located across Lake Batur from Gunung Batur in the highlands of Bali. At 2153m it is over 400m higher, but way less visited. Gunung Abang is known as Red Mountain and the climb is very different. While is rather barren and affords sweeping
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Riding to Lovina Bali
Wanting to escape from Seminyak for a day, late saturday afternoon I packed my bag and hit the road for Lovina, on the north coast. The route I took went thorugh Kerobokan towards Tabanan, and the road to Bedugal.
Starting my trip at 5.30pm, I knew I only
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Hotel Banyualit Quality Resort in Lovina Bali
Lovina is a sprawling strip of coast, that includes several villages. I have stayed in western and central Lovina, now I wanted to try the central-eastern end. The main road wasn’t that inviting, last night, but I spotted a sign, on the corner of a s
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Volcano Bar & Restaurant Lovina
Lovina always felt kind of dead to me in the past. The main drag a scattering of hotels and dive places, the warungs never that busy. Nightlife in Lovina was as far from my thoughts, as kangaroos in Kaliasem. Just a kilometer from where I was staying to th
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Thoughts on the Lovina coast
Lovina was originally a string of villages, that collectively came to be known as Lovina, after the last king of Buleleng, built his holiday home in Kaliasem, and named it ‘Lovina’. Riding from Lovina towards Seririt this morning, I pulled off
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Mountain pitstop at Sanda Butik Villas Bali
A pitstop made in heaven is too good to miss. Sanda Bukit Villas, just south of Pupuan, has been mentioned on this site many times, and today I visited while passing through. A pot of ginger tea and a large bowl of potato and leek soup were just the ticket
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Heading into the jungle in Pupuan Bali
Call me an inquisitive devil, but I can’t resist riding my motorbike down narrow country lanes. Not exactly sure waht I’m expecting to see, or even hoping to see, but the draw of discovery pulls me along. After Sanda Bukit Villas, Antosari, a j
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Petrol stations in Bali
Just out of Seririt today, I stopped at a petrol station. Man, these things are popping up like villas (I can say that in Bali!). You will find sparkling Pertamina stations all over Bali, along many main roads. In Seminyak there is a relatively new one at
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Controlling malaria and dengue in Bali
Wet season in Bali means hot humid weather, flooded streets and puddles. Ideal conditions for mosquitoes (nyamuk) to breed and spread disease.
Bali does have malaria and dengue fever, and I have met Balinese locals who have had both. The fact that Bali a
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Bali weather forecast in December 2006
Here in Seminyak Bali we had a shower last night. Short intense showers have become a norm over the last week or so, with strong sunshine and clear skies during the day.
Its noon on Monday, December 12th, and outside the sky is overcast but bright. The ch
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Dating a Javanese girl in Bali
Bali has expats from all over the world, including what I sometimes refer to as local-expats. People from Java, Sumatra and other islands, come here for work and that adds another dimension to the social scene. For a westerner thinking about dating a girl
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Greenpeace ada ‘cojones’ besar in Jakarta Indonesia
A friend of mine once said, “Its really dissappointing when you wake up one day, and realize the world is run by greedy bastards.” I’ve already woken up, and here in Indonesia, its free for all for greedy bastards. Fortunately, the dark s
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Indonesia’s Monica Lewinsky scandal
We all know Indonesia is a big Muslim country, with some hardliners who want to turn the country into an Islamic republic. People back in the US and Europe, who have never been here, probably believe everything they see on the news, about bombs going off a
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