Bali - Mystically Beautiful and Culturally rich !!
Bali - Mystically Beautiful and Culturally rich !! Bali , one of the 17000 odd islands in the Indonesian group of islands may seem like a dot on the map, but once your'e on the ground it feels like a world of its own. From beaches to temples, from mountains to paddy fields , the island has it all. Lying somewhere more eastward, many a times there are connections to Denpasar (which is the only international airport) from other asian or australasian cities like KL, Singapore, Jakarta or Perth in Australia. The primary religion of Bali being Hinduism makes it unique in the sense that most other indonesian islands have Islam as their primary religion. The islanders also speak a dialect of Bahasa (The official indonesian language) which is called Balinese and is quite very different from Bahasa. Many of the words had their origin in Sanskrit and I could relate to a few of the words. The commercial districts primarily are Kuta, Seminyak and Denpasar which are within a 10-20 mins driv...