Articles tagged ‘India’
Traveling as an Indian in Bali
By Nick | March 23rd, 2007 |
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Bali has a historical connection to India in that some of the Bali Aga are said to be descended from people from eastern India. The Hindu religion is the other huge thing that puts Bali on the tourist map for Indians. There are historical clues such as the cut-caves, statues and bronze figures as well [...]
Love it or hate it, Indonesia is unforgetable
By Nick | November 14th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Travel writer Mark Moxon can’t make up his mind about Indonesia. He says its a love / hate relationship and one that has been infuriating, while satisfying.
Indian professor brings Bali and India together
By Nick | September 1st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Bali owes a lot of its cultural heritage to India. Buddhism and Hinduism both came from India, via Java. Barrie could write a book on how the religions spread and influenced the greater culture and daily life. To this day, the caste system still exists in Bali, though not in the restrictive way it does [...]
Tsunami Warning System: Bali
By BootsnAll | June 9th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
When the Tsunami hit Sumatra over a year ago and devastated the area as well as the tourist strips along the southern Thailand coast and other places in the Indian Ocean including India and east Africa, it was agreed by the countries concerned that a Tsunami early warning system be set up to avoid further [...]
My experience with DVD’s in Bali
By Nick | May 26th, 2006 | 6 Comments »
DVD’s are all over the place in Bali, buy 1 for 10,000rp, buy 100 and get 50 for free. Whatever your budget, watching movies here is cheap.
Holiday spots make good targets for terror attacks
By Nick | April 26th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
That is the conclusion some people are coming to, after Al Queda and other loony networks opted to go for ’soft targets’ a while ago. Actually terrorists have been hitting ’soft targets’ for years, if you consider the IRA and Hamas. The recent bombing at the Egyptian resort of Dahab, suggests terror planners are going [...]
