The Yoga Shala
Always calm, peaceful, and cool - that is, until you start your practice and get your own body heat going. As for quiet, well, it is rural Bali, and it is the tropics, and there are all those roosters that never stop beeking at each other, and the chickens throwing in their two cents worth, while the coconut guy is chopping down coconuts that come crashing down . . . but it is all somehow still peaceful. And besides, you are busy in your body meditation workout called yoga, which is damn hard work. You have no room for distractions :)
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 
