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Things To Do In Bali: Bali Healing And Its Balians
You will never run out of things to do in Bali. However, after reading the book Eat, Pray, Love, many people find themselves curious about visiting a traditional healer, or balian. Besides the balian, there are many other healers and practitioners available to treat imbalances of energy in the body. There are actually more balians in Bali than there are doctors. In this article, I am going to spotlight some of the best ones that I have visited. Also, I will tell you about my experience, and give you the balian’s contact information. I only visited healers in the Ubud area of Bali, but there are many others throughout the…
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Learn How To Paint In Bali
Ubud, Bali is home to many artists and painters. I knew before I arrived that one of the things I wanted to learn while I was here was how to paint. I wasn’t sure, though, how to go about finding someone to teach me. As I was wandering the streets of Ubud one afternoon, some guys who were sitting on the sidewalk asked where I was going. I decided to ask them if they knew where I could take a painting class. They laughed, both moved in opposite directions to reveal a sign that said, “Open Painting Class-Have Fun Time With Balinese Artist.” I knew, immediately, that I was meant…
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How To Travel: What Kind Of Traveler Are You?
How to travel is a question that is very much on everyone’s minds. Most people are curious about how to find the cheapest airline ticket, the best-priced hotel, or how to find all the places that the Lonely Planet has already discovered. Yes, it is important to get to your destination affordably, and you want to stay in a nice room, but other than that, I have found that the best way to travel is to let the place you are in take you to the places you should experience. Notice I said experience, and not see. I have learned from my travels, that there are three types of tourists.…
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The Best Beach In The World-Spellbound On Belitung
Sometimes the earth spills into the sea. The boundaries become blurred between earth and water and sky, and there is so much splendor there that you are left stunned, speechless, and spellbound. And you catch your breath because the moment you have been waiting for is here. You have found the best beach in the world. He doesn’t even know it, but it was Scotty Graham who brought me here. I saw his stunning photograph of Tanjung Tinggi beach and decided that I just had to go. Yes, I am like that. Show me a beautiful picture of a place and I will start formulating a plan about how to…
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Trapped in the Mosquito Netting-More Adventures From Raja Ampat
Well, there’s not much going on here in Raja Ampat. Well, besides getting circled by sharks. But I already told you about that. I mean, I could write about how I moved from the front porch to the hammock, but there’s no hammock. Which is really a shame, actually. I could also tell you about how I am missing a flip-flop. The thing just disappeared right off the boat jetty. Only one. Left the other one behind just like that. The people at the resort said it must have been the wind. My response to that was, “What wind?” The fan in my room is about the most wind I’ve…
