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- How the World Learns English
- Rural Farm in the Mountains of Chang Mai // Photo of the Day
- Free Food With 60,000 Friends at the Golden Temple Free Kitchen in Amritsar
- A Golden Temple Sunrise, Sunset and Fireworks Display // Amritsar, India
- Sleeping With Pilgrims Inside the Golden Temple, Amritsar
- An Ode to the Indian Sleeper Train // Poetry, Stories & Pix
- Lightning Storm Over the Himalayas // Long Exposures at Night
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- Attending an Indian Wedding — in India
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- Traveling Like Locals is Practically Impossible
- The Food Situation
- The Amazing Architecture and Stonework of Bali
- What Country Are You From…Here's Your Price
- Ubud'ing It Up
- Scuba Diving: The Real Reason we Came to Bali
- Hiking Mt Batur: An Active Volcano
- Kuta: Water Parks and Our New Friend in a Resort Town
- The Tourist Zoo at Tanah Lot
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Bali Hais and Bali Lows
A combination of cheap tickets and tales of some of the best diving in the world brought Carrie and I to Bali for a 12 day stint from May 5 – May 17. Our time here was marred with both amazing experiences and epic frustrations, so for something fun this …
read more >>Traveling Like Locals is Practically Impossible
It didn’t take long for us to realize that Bali was unlike any place we’ve ever traveled before, in that it is nearly impossible to use public transportation. As always, after arriving at the airport we were greeted by scores of taxi drivers. And as always, we politely refused and …
read more >>The Food Situation
Food in Bali consists of a large variety of meat and fish, though not much of it is true Indonesian. Most restaurants serve western style foods rather than traditional dishes, though this is also partly because of the fact that all our time was spent in touristy areas. We did, …
read more >>The Amazing Architecture and Stonework of Bali
In every town across Bali we saw stonework of the most exquisite quality. Towns were filled with shops carving and selling statues, pillars and more all with intricate Buddha heads, animals, flowers, nature scenes and more. The pieces are occasionally sold to tourists but usually are bought by locals for …
read more >>What Country Are You From…Here's Your Price
As I mentioned earlier, one of our biggest frustrations in Bali was trying to get a fair price. A typical negotiation would usually go something like: Us: Hi, we are interested in a room, meal, item in your store, etc. How much? Them: What is your country? Us: USA Them: …
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Bali, Indonesia, SouthEast Asia – Videos
Scores of tourists swarm the beach outside Tanah Lot, Bali
Waves crashing at a temple in the Tanah Lot complex
Typical Balinese dance performance in Lovina
View of the lava fields on Mt Batur, an active volcano in Bali
Walking down the shopping gauntlet in Kuta and haggling for a sticker
HELLO MASSAGE? A woman on the streets of Kuta offers a massage
Walking down the shopping gauntlet in Kuta
A walk through the back streets of Ubud, Bali
Why did the geese cross the road? No clue, but this family of them did in Ubud
Holy relics being removed from their storage places before a religious celebration in Ubud.
I go down the toilet bowl slide at the Waterbom park in Bali












