Bali is a small island in Indonesia. Located very close to Java, it is one of the provinces of the Indonesian archipelago. It is a small island, 140 kilometers long and 90 wide, with exuberant vegetation and many attractions for tourists.
With a tropical climate and an average temperature between 20 and 30 degrees, its seasons are divided into a dry season, which runs from June to September, and a rainy season, from October to March.
Known as the island of the gods, it is a very attractive place to travel if you are thinking of taking a trip to Bali for rest, although it also has many places to visit during your stay.
How to get there and how to move
The flight to Bali is quite long due to the distances, but it is a very well connected island, used to receiving visits from European countries and also from the Australian continent. Denpasar airport absorbs a lot of air traffic, so you have to be prepared for the usual queues that are usually generated at the entrance, when applying for the visa.
If we travel from a European country, it is not necessary to carry the completed visa from our country, since with the passport, at the entrance, we will do the process on the same day.
Bali is a small island, so the roads that connect it are secondary. Many hotels have a transportation service that can be hired at the hotel in Bali. We also have the possibility of renting a car if what we want is to move on our own.
What to do in Bali
Bali has numerous tourist attractions, from the temples that appear throughout the territory, through the rice fields, the kilometer-long beaches and even its natural parks.
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You can choose to spend a few days in the center of the island. In towns like Ubud we find temples, the palace, shopping areas, a small food market that opens in the morning, the Monkey Forest and the museum of the Spanish painter Antonio Blanco, among others. This small town near the airport has many attractions and many things to visit.
The Monkey Forest is a natural space, a sacred monkey forest, where you can interact with them, amid ancient ruins, passageways and a wild nature that invites you to get lost for hours.
The Antonio Blanco museum draws attention for its eccentric airs, which have managed to blend in with the architecture of the area, and which offer incomparable views from the terrace that has been set up as a cafeteria at the exit.
Ubud is a town where you can get lost in its streets, visit the craft shops, walk through the rice paddies that surround the houses and that you will find on the nearest mountain. You can go see a Balinese dance in one of the many theaters that offer this nightly activity, hire yoga classes, and lose yourself with the locals in their fields, where they will let you play soccer with them, if that’s what you feel like doing.
Bali and its temples
The Ulum Danu Batur temple is located in the center of the island. Located in an idyllic environment and due to the beauty of the lakes and the landscape that surround it, it is a highly recommended visit if we want to delve deeper and learn a little about the Balinese religion. It is reminiscent of Buddhism, but with its own peculiarities that are only found on this island.
The Gunun Kawi temple, also in the center of the island, is surrounded by rice fields and palm trees, and is a funerary monument where members of the royal family are buried.
The Luhur temple, located on a cliff, where a family of monkeys quite used to robbing tourists stay in its surroundings. If you bring food, be careful, it is possible that they will harass you until they get everything you have on you.
The Tanah Lot temple is one of the most emblematic of the island. Located in the sea, its access is restricted to the hours in which the tide is lowest. The best time to visit it is at sunset, when we can receive a blessing from the monks.
Bali and its beaches
If something distinguishes Bali, it is its kilometer-long white sand beaches and the temperature of its waters. It is an attractive place for surfers, since many have decided to come to live on this island taking advantage of the waves in the area.
Seminyak is a very good area to enjoy the sun and the beach. With numerous hotel complexes that stretch along its endless beach, and a shopping area where you can enjoy good food and drinks as soon as the sun goes down.
The whole island has spectacular areas where you can engage in water sports, and where you can enjoy its idyllic beaches, if that’s what you like to do.
Bali and its rice fields
Bali is known for the rice terraces that cover its mountains, and give the island its own entity. We can see the locals working on the terraces, and get closer to the plantations that are the basis of their gastronomy.
Gastronomy, crafts and leisure
In Bali we will find all kinds of Asian-inspired dishes. Made with natural products, tropical juices and exceptional quality in any place where we decide to stop to eat.
Yoga is a philosophy of life on the island, and many people go to this place to receive yoga or meditation classes and stop the frenetic pace that we are used to in the city.
As for handicrafts, there are numerous products that we can find: from hand-painted fabrics, t-shirts, cotton clothes, stone figures to tropical wood furniture, all of them with colonial inspiration.
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