Mar18-03

A Balinese offering. Offerings (canangs) are made everyday, multiple times each day, and displayed in front of stores, in the dashboards of vehicles, and on the desks of customs agents, to name just a few locales. Offerings keep evil spirits, deemed to cause accidents, away. They include food (here red and black rice), flowers, and incense.

Visiting Seminyak, Legian, and Kuta

March 18th 2009
After a day or two of exploring the area around our hotel, we decided to extend our radius, catching a cab to Seminyak (about 30 minutes from Tanjung Benoa). Popular with the surf set, Seminyak caters largely to a slightly older and more upmarket crowd than nearby Kuta Beach, as we discovered later that day on our travels. After the cab dropped us in the middle of a busy Seminyak street, we spent ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more

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