Tamara Fielding: Wayang Puppeteer
Tamara Fielding was born in 1934 in Cimahi, West Java, in the Dutch East Indies to a Dutch father and...
Bill Dalton
Meet Rodney Holt: Founder of Bali Sports Foundation
Rodney Holt was born in Australia. When he was a year old, his family moved to Italy where he grew...
Matthew Homfray: Rotary Club of Bali Canggu
Matthew Homfray was born in Manchester, England and grew up on a farm near Cardiff in Wales. Trained as a...
Tim Husband: Zoo Curator
Working his way up through the ranks, Tim Husband has worked in zoos in Australia, New Zealand, India and throughout...
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski: Redheads
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski was born in 1947 in Brooklyn and grew up in suburban New Jersey. His earliest memory is...
Meet Bill Dalton
Bill has spent much of his life travelling and writing. His saga took flight in 1971 as he embarked on...
Vaughan Hatch: Mekar Bhuana Conservatory
In 2008, Vaughan Hatch earned a diploma in publishing and editing from the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies.Vaughan originally...
Bali to Flores Overland and Overseas
A three-week trip with two kids in tow from Bali to Flores by ferry, bus, foot, motorbike and shared taxi...
Jakarta 100 Years Ago
Through the window of early photography, Scott Merrillees has brought the long lost world of Jakarta back to life in...
Elena Skoko: A Singing Birth
Elena Skoko was born in Croatia in 1991. When she was 18, she moved to Italy and became a singer...
Ubud’s Museum Mile for Art Lovers
Neka Art Museum Setting out on a Sunday in the slow season, an unexpectedly ideal day to visit museums, the...
Meet Lawrence Blair
Born during the Blitz, swimming in the Mediterranean when it still had fish in it, schooled in Mexico and France...
Hari Saraswati: In Praise of Books
With the islandwide celebration of Dewi Saraswati on August 10th, it’s only appropriate to offer a paean to Bali’s bountiful...
Bali’s Healthy Food Producers from A to Z
Our local food producers are island treasures. Practicing sustainable agricultural techniques and using pure ingredients with no preservatives or genetically...
Alberto Remondi: Pasta Maker
Alberto Remondi was born in Italy in 1963 and grew up in the family home in Rome, one of the...
Elora Hardy: Bamboo Entrepreneur
Elora Hardy was part of the first wave of expat kids growing up in Ubud in the 1980’s. Her creative...
Natural Wildlife Repositories: The Animal Parks of Bali
Visiting an Indonesia-based animal park is the best way to get acquainted with the country’s unparalleled biodiversity spanning 4,800 kilometers...
Olivier Pouillon: Bali Recycling
In the mid-1990s, Olivier Pouillon saw a young child die at an illegal hotel dumpsite. The experience left a deep...
Nyepi: Parade of the Demons
Work has already begun on a mysterious five metre tall creature hidden behind a huge tarp with Styrofoam shavings lying...
Anita Scheeres: Independent Bookseller in Bali
Anita Scheeres fell into bookselling. Each time she would visit her family in Sydney, she would lug books back to...
Stars over Bali
From time immemorial humans have been transfixed by the heavens. The oldest map of the night sky, found in Germany...