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Forums > General Discussion   Shooting the breeze...

Bali, why bother?

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Created by westozwind > 9 months ago, 23 May 2012
worrier
WA, 726 posts
14 Jun 2012 7:42PM
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mocha1 said...

Bali is a great place has great waves fun people, and is an exceptionally cheap holiday. Try staying in a 5 star hotel in Perth for under $120 night!!!!! (try a backpackers )



The future for Bali - pretty bright I would say looking at the hotels being built and refurbished, the new airport, new resorts and the new rich RUSSIANS have discovered all of the above - yep a few of em even surf

and

as long as you can get airfares and accom (2 weeks) for less than a weekend at Rotto people will go


Im hearin what you are saying Mocha. Its cheap, good value accomodation people are great everything you say is true. Refurbishing the hotels is great except the human waste still goes in the ocean.
Problem is the infrustructure required to support all this is not in place. No good buildin a 5 star resort charge $100 bucks a night and pump the sewrege straight into the drink as they do now. Dump all the rubbish in the hills and kick the villagers out to get their blocks to build the hotels.
Eventually you have to have some systems in place or it goes pear shaped.
Think ancient Rome. Was great for a while then eventually it all went to ****.
I hope I am wrong cause I love Bali as much as anybody.

W

fingerbone
NSW, 921 posts
14 Jun 2012 10:14PM
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theDoctor said...



Yay for third world cess pools and our (fleeting) economic superiority...

Lets send our own tourism and service industries to the same places we sent our manufacturing ones...

Afterall, I deserve a cheap holliday at the expense of others and my own soul

I spend 4 weeks straight living in aircon comfort being feed and waited on while pretending to work hard for a big fat pay packet, with drinking myself stupid my only entertainment..

Why should I have to share my wealth around with the citizens of my own country...?

I tried to ( share my wealth ) with my own citizens.
1 week on Hamilton Island = 2 weeks in Bali.
The prices that our resorts charge are driving us Aussies overseas.
Sad but true...

cranky
440 posts
14 Jun 2012 8:42PM
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worrier said...

Ah the glory days.
W


LoL, talk it up dough boy, glory days like you chucking up from both ends because you ate the mystery meal

theDoctor
NSW, 5784 posts
14 Jun 2012 10:46PM
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yeah i agree,

how dare we expect people here to have the right to earn a livable wage...

I also want that extra week in the sun with the thick fecal humid air so I can chase down knock off t-shirts and wood carved ash trays

...don't forget to braid your hair...!

cisco
QLD, 12353 posts
15 Jun 2012 12:20AM
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I went to Bali in 1973 as a sailor on an Aus Navy Parolley Boat.

My impression then was that the Balos were magic people who were being screwed over big time by the Indons.

I haven't been back since mainly because I do not want to spoil my memories of the Elephant Caves and Mount Batur.

From what I hear and see the only change is the magnitude of the screw over the Balos are getting from the Indons.

Phuck the Javans like they phuck over everybody under their influence.

Sukhano and Suharto would have be the two most hated names in Indonesia.

worrier
WA, 726 posts
15 Jun 2012 7:58AM
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cranky said...

worrier said...

Ah the glory days.
W


LoL, talk it up dough boy, glory days like you chucking up from both ends because you ate the mystery meal




They were my glory days and I will remember them in my own way thank you.
I seem to remember something about a biggest wave comp vaugely though. How's your memory on that one Cranky?
W

cranky
440 posts
15 Jun 2012 9:15AM
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worrier said...

cranky said...

worrier said...

Ah the glory days.
W


LoL, talk it up dough boy, glory days like you chucking up from both ends because you ate the mystery meal




They were my glory days and I will remember them in my own way thank you.
I seem to remember something about a biggest wave comp vaugely though. How's your memory on that one Cranky?
W


I have no memory of that!

fingerbone
NSW, 921 posts
15 Jun 2012 6:33PM
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theDoctor said...


yeah i agree,

how dare we expect people here to have the right to earn a livable wage...

I also want that extra week in the sun with the thick fecal humid air so I can chase down knock off t-shirts and wood carved ash trays

...don't forget to braid your hair...!


doc...you crack me up.
Have you even ever been to Bali ???

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
15 Jun 2012 4:42PM
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fingerbone said...

theDoctor said...


yeah i agree,

how dare we expect people here to have the right to earn a livable wage...

I also want that extra week in the sun with the thick fecal humid air so I can chase down knock off t-shirts and wood carved ash trays

...don't forget to braid your hair...!


doc...you crack me up.
Have you even ever been to Bali ???



Maybe in the 90s

ockanui
VIC, 1309 posts
15 Jun 2012 7:50PM
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I agree lots more to Bali than pissed boguns buying wooden ashtrays and wanna root T-shirts...had some amazing surf, seen beautiful scenery, walked through far away local markets full of the hussle and bustle of life that is far away from our concept of normal suburban life, not to mention sharing a cold bintang watching the sunset, we are all guilty of directly or indirectly, letting our money go overseas, look past all that crap in the tourist areas and you can get back in time and enjoy the simplicity of life in Bali, surf, massage, food, surf,rest, surf ,food, bintang, sleep

theDoctor
NSW, 5784 posts
15 Jun 2012 10:07PM
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fingerbone said...

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theDoctor said...


doc...you crack me up.
Have you even ever been to Bali ???



Probably more than most, now it's usually just the stepping stone to the rest of indo..
Balos' are still the best, its the rest that's the problem... And ulu's us a joke...
Last time I was there, aircon surf shops on the cliffs and my mate nearly got beat up for filming us cause the local 'pro' photogs took offense at his better than their gear...
Plus there was about 100 euros hanging out in the cave...

A ferry ride and a car trip away we scored a weeks worth of swell with no one but us and fishermen motoring past scratching their heads

surferstu
1011 posts
16 Jun 2012 7:33PM
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Wouldn't bother if you have a family with young girls, a 9yr old got raped over there in last couple of days in kuta

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/mobile/article.aspx?_s=2362ba56-a361-4fc1-8123-1b4b636b30a2&_sp=2045&id=8483779



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