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Bali - island of wonder

Bali island is located in east Java, Indonesia. As Indonesia has thousand of islands, Bali offers one of the best. Despite the bombing tragedy in previous years, tourists still choose Bali as one of their destination. Bali offers good sandy beach, world class surfing (you can't find this in Malaysia), Hindu culture, temples, rain forest, volcanoes and Bintang beer.

As I have not much prepared for the trip, I looked for recommended itinerary from Lonely Planet show. As the show is not available for showing in my local TV channels, I've downloaded it instead. The rough guide was excursion around Kuta, stopped at Ubud, scaled the volcano mountain of Gunung Batur, chilled out in less touristic beach and temples visiting (see map for road traveled as indicated by red line).


SY and I started the trip from Kuta. Then proceeded to Ubud - a place full of arts and crafts. After that, we traveled north to Lovina and finally came back to Kuta.

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BTW, the word Bali could simply means BAnyak LIbur due to various religious celebration throughout the year.
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:34:00 PM
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