Nick and I just got back from a day out searching for places to live, researching cell phone costs and internet providers. As our Taxi pulled up to Poppies Lane, across from the former Sari Club, we noticed a few new walls. Yes, I wouldn't call it a North American construction site but a few new walls were going up and men with hard hats were working in there.
It’s great to see this, as I mentioned before, the streets are very dead. As we have wandered in to other areas like Legian and Seminyak – it is the same. Not many folks around.
I spoke with the Cybercafe manager today. Here are some numbers.
Before bombing: 150+ customers per day
Right after bombing: 10 customers per day
January 2003: 40+ customers or so per day.
Looks like Bali is on the right track. I also spoke with another French lady expat. She owns a shop near the blast site and expects business to pick up back up to previous levels in the next 6 months. According to her, the first tourists back were the Asians because they are curious. Westerners will take another 6 months or so.
We’ll see. In the meantime, Nick and I have Bali to ourselves.
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I was in Bali last summer before the bomb, and saris was the place we went every night. A group of over 20 of us went last year, and loved every minuite of it. We plan to go again in the begining of July, but i was wondering what the nightlife is like now in bounty, 66 and all the other bars. Its great hearing that they are re building saris, hopefully when we get there, everything will be back to normal.
Great site
66 is a bit like a muddy puddle when the water dries up. What is left in it is a bunch of street scum selling eckkies to a dwindling pool of die hard ex-pats & hookers…
Just got back from Bali, not the same as before, but still well worth the trip. Not as many Australians around, but a lot more Europians. 66 is ass nowadays, bounty is pretty pumbing some nights though. We mainly found ourselves in Apachi bar most nights. Bali is still a great place to go though, and im sure my group will be going every summer for many more years to come
david is that you??
lost your phone number and would like to contact you again
hope aLL is good
richard meade
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