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1: Everyone Has The Same Names If there’s one thing you’ll notice on Bali holidays, it’s that everyone seems to have the same names: Nyoman, Wayan, Komang… Why? Well, in a system of beautiful simplicity, every child, male or female, is called by the order of their appearance in the family. So the first-born is [...]
1: Café Des Artistes Some of the best steaks in Indonesia and, arguably, South-East Asia, plus a pretty inside-outside garden setting make Des Artistes a great place for a (relative) splurge. Oenophiles will appreciate the extensive wine list, while decent local fizz is available at very sensible prices. The salads, seafood and smoked salmon are [...]
The Sound of Silence
On Saturday, town was so quiet you could literally hear the silence. Not the usual raucous night-time non-quiet, the squawking yabber of geckos, the surprising baritone of tiny frogs. But that daytime silence you get in the deep countryside, where you can hear the breeze in the leaves and the rice shoots. It’s the year [...]
A Walk in the Rice Fields
When she was a little girl, Su’s father built her a little tower on stilts in the rice paddies. Not to play houses — unusually for a Balinese woman in her 40s, Su’s still awaiting Mister Right — craft offerings from flowers, or necklaces from cassava leaves and stems. Though she’ll show Z how to [...]
14 Great Arts Courses in Ubud, Bali
Set amid the rice fields, temples and river gorges of rural Bali, art comes naturally in Ubud. And it’s one of the easiest destinations in the world to get in touch with your artistic side, thanks to a myriad day, half-day or longer arts courses just waiting for the taking. Before you begin the perennial [...]
