Raja Ampat Dive Pioneers: Meet Burt Jones & Maurine Shimlock
Throughout Indonesia and the wider diving world, Burt Jones and Maurine Shimlock are known as the people who put Raja...
Bill Dalton
Bajawa Highlands: Heartland of Flores
The growling, battered ‘executive’ bus stopped in front of our hotel in Labuan Bajo, its engine hungrily pointing towards the...
Looking for Borneo: Meet Mark Heyward
Traveller, musician, educator and author of two books on Borneo talks about life in Indonesia, his epic journey across the...
Going, Going, Gone: In Search of the Ultimate Longhouse
Along with blowpipes, traditional tattooing, mastery of plaiting crafts, canoe-building and the custom of wearing huge bunches of metal earrings...
The Mysterious, Phantasmagoric World of Javanese Wayang Theatre
The morality and messages conveyed in Wayang Kulit plays still permeate Javanese thought and daily life. The spellbound audience is...
Ralph Klemp | Bali Expats Facebook Group Founder
Ralph Klemp thought up the idea of his Bali Expats group on Facebook almost by accident. As a long-time aficionado of Bali,...
Saving Energy at Home: the Revolution in Green Consumption
Energy conservation is an acute necessity on the beautiful but vulnerable island of Bali. You can also save millions of...
Protect Your Home: Security for Bali Residents
With the alarming rash of home robberies and even killings during home invasions over the past year, it has become...
Bali & Massachusetts: Two School Systems Worlds Apart
Bill Dalton recounts his daughter Aysah’s unique but unenviable opportunity over the past ten years of alternating between two school...
Say it with Flowers
Spirits dominate everything the Balinese do. Offerings are presented every day, every full and new moon and whenever there’s an...
What do you pack?
Roberto Di Marco was born and grew up in Rome, Italy. He attended a liceo in Rome, earning degrees in philosophy, psychology,...
Bali: A Magnet for Spa Lovers
Offering remedies and therapies based on traditional treatments passed down through generations, the island of Bali, in the space of...
Galungan: Biggest Day of the Year
Celebrating the creation of the world by the supreme god and the victory of goodness or virtue (dharma) over evil...
Do the Right Thing: The Proper Disposal of Waste on Bali
In less than one generation, the reality of waste in Bali has totally metamorphosed. During this era of globalization, there...
Where To Wed on Bali
Though Bali has literally hundreds of different venues to hold a wedding, this embarrassment of choices need not be overwhelming....
Odyle Knight: Astrologer, Author, Lecturer
It is appropriate that the theme of divine providence is the common thread running through all of Odyle Knight’s three...
Meet Sheila Burch
Meet Sheila Burch, an American yoga teacher and founder of the Ubud Yoga House, Bali. Sheila Burch was born...
Vivienne Kruger: Balinese Food
Vivienne Kruger first visited Bali on a week-long overland trip from Jakarta in 1993. For five years, starting in 1999,...
Rick Creamer: Owner of Rick’s Pub Crawl
Rick Creamer was born on the Gold Coast in Queensland, but his family moved to Victoria when he was still...
Balinese Literature: A Moveable Feast
In understanding Balinese literature, we must start with a religion and mythology founded in India over 3,500 years ago. The...
Brendan O’Donnell: Bali Community Choir Director
Brendan conducted two Melbourne-based “SING AUSTRALIA” choirs before moving to Bali. He has lived in Bali since 2008. In 2009,...