Destinations

Under the Volcanos | David Clement Davies | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

The Indonesian Archipelego was under a state of alert after the violence that erupted on Malaku and later spread to Java. The army had gone in and three hundred people had died

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Letter from Bali | Justine Hardy | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

I am told I am on Prospero's Isle, where the scent of the cempak flower is said to ease the pains of the world, where frangipani blooms rain down as harbingers of a storm, where even the poverty is wrapped in shiny banana leaves. But I can’t see it for the golf buggies...

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Bali Self-Driving | John Borthwick | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

It's a familiar morning scene in Bali: a vehicle buried to its hubs in sand and sea-water. The driver had attempted a midnight shortcut along Seminyak Beach, just north of Kuta

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Where to Stay in Bali | John Borthwick | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

When winter seems as long as a life sentence, Bali beckons as the perfect escape clause. But, is Kuta Beach's melee of hawkers, jeep jams and ghetto accommodation really the answer

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The Demon Slayer of Kuta | John Borthwick | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

Three weeks full of nothing but Kuta Reef and Ulu Watu point surf lay ahead of me. And so it was. Black rice porridge at Mades Restaurant. Hibiscus heat and dragonfly mornings. Massages on the beach

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My Perfect Day in Bali | John Borthwick | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

It’s dolphin hour and I’m up early, stumbling into an outrigger canoe; the boatman jerks its outboard to life and, along with a score of other boats, we set off in pursuit of the pods of small grey dolphins

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Aman Bali | Caroline Major | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

In London a week earlier my sanity had been thrown into question. The Foreign Office website with its political railings still carries a severe warning almost two years after the event. ‘No. I’m going.’ I enthused.

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Cycling Bali | Andrew Bain | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

The road is a river, awash with monsoonal rains. The midday sun has darkened to a candle of light and thunder resounds like cannon fire across the sullen Bali sky

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Bali: Island of the Gods | Solange Hando | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

In the walled villages, women weave the mysterious double ikat cloth. They learnt the skill from a goddess, explains an elder, and every thread has magic powers

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Cockfighting in Bali | Mark Eveleigh | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

Two hundred men are yelling and gesticulating in what seems like total pandemonium. The air is thick with clove-scented cigarettes and saffron-coloured dust

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