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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.
Bali Nights | Bradley Winterton | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali
“The witch at Batubulan is only illusion,” said the man in the blue headdress and mauve sarong standing beside me in the temple forecourt. “But here she will be for real”
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
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
Buffalo Soldiers | Mark Eveleigh | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali
As they draw closer I notice the painted horns that are flattened along the backs of the stampeding bulls and the carved wooden dragon that rides between their heads
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
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
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...
Morning of the World | Mark Eveleigh | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali
The Balinese believe that when they die they will find heaven to be very similar to the earthly paradise that the gods have loaned them
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
On Writing the Guidebook | Bradley Winterton | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali
Nor will I ever forget sitting and writing, on the spot, words of impassioned rhetoric in praise of the view from the temple of Ulu Watu, while a troupe of sacred monkeys made off up into a tree with my camera
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
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
Waters of Life: Bali Goes World Heritage | Graham Simmons | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali
The word “tirtha” means “water” in High Balinese, and for over a thousand years people have been making the pilgrimage to Tirtha Empul to bathe in and drink the waters of its springs
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