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A quantumly different Bali

First light over Pura Ulan Danu Bratan, on the shores of  Bali's Lake Bratan

In Bali, place and direction are fluid in the extreme- particularly around inland Bedugul


Bali Tees

Better known for its jade green rice paddies, powder sand beaches and hauntingly beautiful scenery, Bali has stand-out golf courses that incorporate all of these highly scenic appeals.


Bandung Beauties

Bandung’s biggest drawcard is ugly, smells bad and often can’t even be seen at all.


Carita: Indonesia's Beach of Stories

The volcanic Krakatoa Island is now staging a menacing re-growth

The volcanic Krakatoa Island is now staging a menacing re-growth


Couples, not cowboys, rule in Kuta

Celebrating a Balinese wedding / Bowl of flower petals

The villa accommodation boom is leading Bali's renaissance as a top-end destination.


Eat, Pray, Love, Bali-style

Warung Biah Biah, Ubud

Where else to Eat, Pray, (and) Love? Elizabeth Gilbert’s personal journey in search of self-fulfilment reached its conclusion in Ubud, the spiritual heart of Bali.


Expressly Java

Bandung Station / Toys for sale

Amidst Java’s teeming millions, a comfortable express train is a capsule of calm, if not without hazards of its own...


Golf the Island of the Gods

Three outstanding fields of green have made Bali the world's best golf island. And one of them is located inside a volcano!


Indonesian Papua: Off the Edge

Freeport Mine cableway / Papuan Highlanders

Indonesian Papua is Australasia's last frontier: a little-known land where Muslim Asia coexists uneasily with Melanesia; a land which long concealed the world's richest deposits of copper and gold.


Jakarta Jaunt

Crowning a soaring column in the green heart of Jakarta is a ‘flame’ that never flickers. It can’t because it’s made of gold!


Jakarta: The Big Durian

Pinisi at Sunda Kelapa / Street musicians, Jakarta

South East Asia’s favourite fruit provides an apt metaphor for a city which no longer deserves to be dismissed as squalid, dirty and charmless. However, a rich feast of sticky, custard-like flesh awaits those eager enough to withstand the noxious smell of this football-sized fruit and wrest open the formidable spiked carcass.


Java Brew

Losari Coffee Plantation Resort

A venerable coffee plantation has been reborn as a boutique resort in the mountains of central Java


Mr Anhar's Monumentally Memorable Hotels

Hotel Tugu Bali / Sri Lestari Hotel, Blitar, E. Java

Anhar Setjadibrata, one-time medical student and lawyer, developed a consuming interest in preserving Indonesia's cultural heritage...


Retreat to Bali

Visitors to Bali now have a new reason to visit with luxury spas cropping up all over the island.


The Jatilan horse-trance dance of Central Java

Entranced by horses in mystical Indonesia


Waters of Life: Bali goes World Heritage

The rice terraces of Jatiluwih (above); Taman Ayun Temple, Mengwi (right); Taking the sacred waters of Pura Tirtha Empul (below right)

Bali's priceless treasures are at last recognised by UNESCO


 

 
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