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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who goes to Bali for the beaches will be disappointed. But how can you go to Ubud and the Ayung River Valley and not love the culture and natural beauty? The palaces, gamelan, dances, food, local Buddhist/animist customs. You won’t experience the true beauty of Bali if you stay at a beach resort. [/quote]

Hmm...mmm.... I spent two weeks on Bali and it was more disappointing than not. Good food, yes, some nice scenery, yes. But crowded, traffic jams everywhere, Ubud was overbuilt and definitely more touristy than local. The water at the beaches was lovely even if most beaches were rocky. But on the whole I found Bali overrun with Australian rednecks and tattooed Europeans looking for cheap parties.

The advantage of Bali is that compared to the rest of Indonesia, the infrastructure is much better. After having travelled in more pastoral parts of Indonesia you can appreciate the upsides to Bali, but that was having good coffee, Starbucks, and diet coke and more reliable food. Not "local culture" which seemed to be gimmicky for the tourists.

By the way, Bali is a predominately Hindu island, not Buddhist and especially not animist. Maybe that was what some local person's spiel in order to get tourist dollars out of your misplaced sympathies. [/quote]

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