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Women weaving baskets for morning offerings.

What is Bali?

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

Bali is so many things- great food, friendly people, brilliant stars, rejuvenating massages, fascinating monkeys, gorgeous flowers and perfect weather.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | Women & Travel | Animals | 20th Century History | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Economy | People | Photography | Religion | Beaches & Resorts | Nature | For Kids
Little girls greet me as I enter an elementary school in Bali.

School Visit in Bali

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

I was greeted by happy teachers and friendly children when I visit a school in Bali.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | Women & Travel | 20th Century History | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Economy | People | Photography | Working Abroad | For Kids
Wayan, a central character in Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love prepares our meal for us

Eat, Pray, Love

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

The 'Love' section of Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love takes place in Bali. Wayan, a traditional Balinese healer and restaurant owner is a key figure in Gilbert's book. I visited her establishment in the town of Ubud.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia
Topics: Culture | Food | People | Literature | Women & Travel

Pico Polo

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering to what extent Western - and especially American - culture had impinged on the cultures of the newly...

Destinations: Nepal | Bali | Indonesia | Tibet | Tokyo | Manila | Hong Kong | Mumbai | India | Lhasa | China | Kathmandu | Thailand | Japan | Philippines | Bangkok
Topics: Travel | Literature

Charles Baker's Drunken Oriental Junket

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

An NPR interviewer once asked writer David Sedaris why he had left New York and moved to Paris. His answer must have sent a frigid wind into every local chapter of Bores Against Anything Pleasurable.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia | Thailand | Tokyo | Japan | Manila | Philippines | Bangkok
Topics: Travel | Literature
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