Two months going through the southeastern Asia... 6th part: Indonesia, Bali

Arriving in Bali after spending a night in Jakarta, where the ratio in qualita '/ prezzo e' was the worst of the entire trip: $ 20 for a dark room, sad and warm water ... but I was non-existent so tired that I have not even had the strength to protest ...
... at least there was the transfer to the airport ...
After the Malaysia and Singapore in Asia here I am again. The real one.
Although not "newbie" here, after the "modernity" We always want an instant return to familiar with this part of the world, but just enough to feel immediately at ease ...
Lands as in Bali, famous for its natural beauty and cultural and, unfortunately, also for its attacks. One in 2002 and another in 2005. Both in October ... hard to imagine these things in a place where people always smiling and the sun shines intense and high in the sky ...

 

KUTA - BALI

The first and obligatory step, and 'Kuta, the main tourist destination and center of the first order.
Bali is not 'like the rest of Indonesia, Tourism here has not just the economy and standards of the island, but thanks also to not too many tourists traveling in these troubled times, a wave of relaxation me axle system not just me. Hotels in the Open with a pool, silence everywhere, and all this for only 8 euros for a double room ...
The road that leads to the beach and 'short but densely populated by all sorts of "seller-hyena" that offers everything and more': by taxi to motorbikes, from massage to sex ...
The psychological pressure and the insistence of these characters are really the only negative note of this otherwise paradise ... beautiful beaches, palm trees, sun, sand and sea ...
... I lose the strength to do anything, I just want to lie down and not think of anything ...

UBUD - BALI

For an hour from Kuta's' Ubud, a village which stands out the relaxing marketplace (because it is' well what is not so boring and ...) and where the air thick and calurosa and 'cut almost artistically, as gashes on a canvas painted by small temples scattered somewhat 'everywhere, where no one "famous" god and' venerable, but dozens of faces and bodies shaped monster, the famous Balinese culture that expresses the Hindu religion in a way decisamente particular, who revitalized, but without 'disturbing, the slow passing of minutes in very long days of Ubud ...
It must be said that the market momentarily loses its tranquility 'when beginning a round of trading at the limit of decency, where I and a handful of round ladies play a couple of ashtrays to the last cent dollar ...
... At the end leaving victorious both sides ...
At night I go back to Kuta chock full of food in the stomach, as I have done no more than walking, and stop negotiating virtually every bar in the country ...

Travelling around Bali

Tell of long days spent in the hotel pool roll to the beach and 'of great interest, and the only feeling they could turn in those who are willing to read beyond the boredom I think might be a sound and understandable envy.
A couple of tips on how to breathe freely Bali, such as rental car and zigzag in traffic, drive on the left I would put it, and 'one of the best choices to live in full freedom' this beautiful island.
Ho girato senza meta precisa per tutto il tempo che ho avuto il motorino e Kuta e' stata la mia base di partenza. I've seen beaches, coves and villages. And the "free time" I passed him in strictly horizontal position in the company of Morfeo and Apollo ...
As I write as I admire a girl puts a little 'everywhere (on baskets of fruit on the ground in front of the doors and entered each building on the trunks of cars ...) small open boxes, made of straw, containing a little rice , fruit, flowers and a stint of incense ...
Are offered daily, with the same ease 'with which we take coffee' or buy the newspaper, the Balinese use to chase away evil spirits and thank the good ones. And everything 'so well mixed with the normal activity' every day, even a tourist to see these bids and dodge everywhere, on foot or by bike, it becomes normal and current ...
In Laos, I read a book by an Italian journalist who has' turned the world into wasp. Before starting his rounds lived in Bali.
And now I realize that only by being on this island and enjoy the many different fruits and you can 'understand why'. Not by chance, even with its attacks, and Bali 'by 5 years, consecutively, the island voted piu' bella del mondo.
I wonder if you find that the paradise, or at least something that you can 'approach to what the imagination is the common, so there, because' we do not have the courage to come and live here?
I'm thinking there. We think every day ...
So I leave 'Bali, suntanned and reclaimed ready (so to speak ...) for another 10, but unfortunately the last, days at sea in Thailand ... poor me!
This offering of Bali I saw and experienced little or nothing. And that 'a reason more' than enough to promise to return.
And who knows' that the next time you put foot here is not to remain for a long, long time ...