Dear Kurt,

We would like to thank you for making known to the public a part of the

Indonesian charm. We are very glad that you had such a pleasant time in Bali so

that you are encouraged to work on an online travel report which is quite good

and comprehensive. We can also tell from the e-mails commenting on your website

that your online report receives a very positive response from the public in such

a way that they are interested in having similar experience as you did. And, of

course, we would be more than happy to put your website as one of the links from

our website. We will also forward your message to the Department of Tourism in

Jakarta so as to get your website linked from the Department's website.

If there is anymore we can do to be of assistance, please feel free to contact me

at this e-mail address or phone me at 1-613-724-1100. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ibnu Wahyutomo

Hi, there:

 

This is Sara Lee from TAIWAN!!

 

1.  I am glad to bump into your traveling report and got abundant information regarding Bali.  Thanks a lot!!  It's just great!!

2.  Please also arrange to come to TAIWAN!!  It's a more wonderful place to see and learn many things!!   Life here is very convenient and interesting!!  You can even do some part time job as you are traveling here.  Please let me know if you are able to come someday.  I will do my best to help you guys!!!!  No sweat!!!

3.  Can I provide a little piece of advice?!Whenever I click on some other information pointed in your context, why not it opens another window, but jump into another site in stead.  It's not easy to surf cus I have to go back to the root directory again.  It's not that convenient.  This is my little advice.  Thanks!

 

4.  Again!!  I love your work!!!  Especially your tremendous sense of humor!!!  Hehehe!! 

 

Warmest regards from TAIWAN!

Dag Kurt,

Mijn naam is Emelie Derinck en ik woon in Westende. Ieder jaar mag ik een reisbestemming kiezen om op reis te gaan dit jaar had ik gekozen voor Bali. Dus zijn we  de 1ste Maart vertrokken. Nu ben ik op zoek naar een reisbestemming en vond ik toevallig uw site. eerst en vooral gefeliciteerd niet alleen met de site ook de foto's zijn heel mooi. Ik zou dit jaar graag terug gaan, daar ik niets naar m'n goesting vind. Alhoewel het is een beetje dom, als 18 jarige hetzelfde land te doen want wie weet kan ik het mij later permiteren. Ik vond het wel leuk om te zien dat je naar dezelfde juwelensmid geweest bent als ons. Wij zaten in een hotel dicht bij de Tanah Lot, die prachtig is. We hebben jammergenoeg geen zonsondergang gezien daar het rond 4 uur altijd begon te regenen! Hierbij heb ik nog es m'n herinneringen kunnen boven halen en heb ik nog meer zin terug te gaan!!!

 

Groetjes

 

Emelie

 

emelie.derinck@skynet.be

Thanks for the Bali scrapbook.  It amazes me how you were able to put this

all together.  I love technology.  Can you include my home email on a list

for a new album?  Use this:  Johnrufwtr@yahoo.com

<mailto:Johnrufwtr@yahoo.com>

Thanks and good luck.

Hi Kurt,

 thx for sending us your report on Bali. As I'm the journalist who makes

a program called 'groeten uit..' it could be intreting to have a talk with you

about

your adventures. I should check the amount of images we have on Bali.

Keep in touch

good luck in Kenya

JOs Teughels

Journalist

Hi...

 

I am from South Africa. I am getting married in Feb 2001. Our plan is to go to Bali on honeymoon for 14 days.

 

Please advise if this is a good plan. I am a worried of getting bored i one place for so long. Please also advise if this is a suitable honeymoon destination.

 

Thank you

Natanya Gopaul

South Africa

Hi Kurt,

just want to say that your report helped me a lot, we were there

last march and will go there again next march.

You did excellent work to give people a wonderful impression of

this beautiful island with his friendly inhabitants.

So let me thank you for your hard work and that you also thought

about to share your impressions with other people all over the world.

I will recommend your site to friends in Germany as well.

So keep on......   :-))))

Kind regards

Inka from Switzerland

Hi!

I'm Oti, from Mexico city.

I'm planning to trevel to Bali and other countries around

If you have important information about the trip

Please tell me. Is my first long trip and I need all the information I can get.

I'm scuba diving, love temples and exotic foods but I need advices.

I'm ot rich so I'll travel with a short money.

Can you answer this mail. I'll be very happy to have notice about you

My E-mail is otiliara@prodigy.net.mx

Thanks and have a good day

Kurt,

 

Great Bali pages!!

Being an Australian, I can wholly sympathise with a love of Bali!

I do have some suggestions though.

On your Q&A page, under Malaria and Tropical Diseases, there is some incorrect information.

Malaria is a tropical disease transmitted by MOSQUITOS, not flies (just in case somebody reads that and thinks it's OK to get bitten by mosquitos).  Also, it's not true that the pollution stops the malarial mosquitos.  It's simply because they've sprayed the urban areas a lot, to reduce the amount of mosquitos. 

The basic rule is.  If there are mosquitos, there's a risk of Malaria.  Also, you should mention that Malaria's not the only disease you can get in Bali from Mosquitos.  The other two (very serious, life threatening) diseases are Japanese Encephalitis (sweels the brain leading to death) and Dengue Fever (may not kill you, but very dangerous).

To stop mosquitos, you should use an insect repellant with 30% DEET.  This should get rid of those bloodsuckers!

Also, it's not true that taking Vitamin-B tablets will repel mosquitos.  It's an urban legend.

Also, you should tell people they need an immunisation for Typhoid.  Yuo get this disease from eating contaminated food, and is quite often terminal.

On your "How much money do I need in Bali?", you list some approximate prices for hotels.  Perhaps you can add a category "Losmen".  These are small 'hotels', that are VERY cheap.  I never pay more than 30.000,- Rp./Night when I'm there.  They're very basic - often with a Mandi (an asian bathroom), and an asian toilet, but they're great value for the backpackers!

Anyway, as I say, great site!

Laszlo

(I'm a Hungarian-Australian if you're wondering about the name).

You should go into business as a travel writer. This is the best, most down to earth travelogue that I have seen on Bali yet. I am off to Bali this October...and after looking at all of your pictures I am so excited. Did you happen to see the Bali Sani Suites Hotel?

 

Thanks for sharing your trip.

 

Cheers.

 

Rachel

Toronto, Canada

I enjoyed your pictorial of Bali.I plan to visit some time in the

future.I certainly will heed some of your advise.Thanks,Steve,from New

york City.

hi there kurt!! just come of your web site on bali found it very interesting

with great tips and pics,, myself and the wife are going over in feb next

year for 5 nights stopover on the way to australia,, we are stopping at the

Pura S antrian resort did you visit the area?? we are not really sure of how

much money to change for the stay we are in a room only basis not planning

to travel round far while we are there just relax in the sun hopefully!!!

any suggestions?? also saw on ya web site about mosquito nets would you

advise me to take 2 with me ??? if you can e mail me with any more tips or

suggestions about our visit to bali i would appreciate very much,,,,  thanks

Gaz,,, U.K

Thank you for sharing your trip with us.  The pictures were spectacular (by

the way, what type of camera were you using?).  My husband and I are going

to Bali for the first time this February.  I'm sure we will study your trip

again, as we prefer getting away from all the tourism in order to experience

more of the people and their way of life.  Thank you again for all the

information.  For all of the numerous hours I have spent on the internet

researching Bali, your site has been by far the best!

Best Regards,

the Grahams from North Pole, Alaska!

Hi Kurt & Tony,

Thanks for making a huge contribution to my beloved country. I am an Indonesian Student that live in Canada for almost 4 years now. Ever since the East Timor incident, most of Canadian always connoted Indonesia as pool of blood, human rights violation, etc, etc.

Thanks to your web site, I can always introduce the most beautiful part of Indonesia to the world. The most details of Balinese life and its people, from third person perspective. Belive me, people always took for granted of everything you said, especially if you try to persuade them otherwise of whatever they believe.

Love all of those pictures =)

Lulu

Hi Kurt,

I really enjoyed viewing your website.  Lots of great pictures.  I've been

to Bali three times and didn't see nearly as much as you did.  If I ever get

to return to Bali now I have some more ideas of what to look for.

THANKS!!!

Dennis  (In Philadelphia, USA)

Kurt,

My husband and I and two kids would like to visit Bali over Spring break,

2001.  This would be from 3/25-3/30.  Will it be dry then?

Thanks for your reply.

Sonia Ryckman

I could either not see the web site nor address for the Hotel Melasti clearly or what address I put in did not work.  Can you send me the web site and e-mail address for this hotel.

Great looking site.  Getting the feel of the land from your photos.

By the way, do you know anything about getting from Bali to Manado on Sulawesi?  We plan to go there to dive.

Sincerely,

stevebell88@hotmail.com

hello kurt

thanks so much for the super wonderfull photos and stories

i prefer your personal stories better than the tourist

nonsense, i will be going to bali in one week oct 16th 2000

will use your info.      gina tyler   USA

Having been a frequent visitor to Bali over the last few years as it is only 3hrs from Perth Western Australia i found your site very informative for first-time travellers.Last visit there in May 2000 was best yet as the hawkers have been banished from the streets and due to the political unnrest in Jakarta many people are detered from going, but there is no unrest in tourist centres.If anything was to happen it would be in Denpasar the capital.

Dear kurt,

 

I read your story about Bali Indonesia at http://bali.skynet.be

For your information, presently i am building up 1 site named www.indodiscovery.com.

My site hopefully will be an information site for any tourism field in Indonesia.

What do you think if i link your site or i put your story in my web? Do you mind?

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you and best regards,

 

Ling-ling

email :  fenling@cbn.net.id

Handphone no. +62  811 185 108

Dear Kurt,

 

It's really interesting to see your website.... I just working in travel agency for Bali destination... but i never been to Bali before.

In my company, we use internet access so we can find information easily.  One day my Bos ask me to search about Bali and I find your Web site.

In your Web site I learn alot about Bali.... even i never been there before.... but from your photographs i can imagine how is Bali look like.  It's so beautiful!!!!!

Thanks Kurt for your beautiful photographs.

 

 

Ullie.... ;-)

Hi Kurt,

My boyfriend and myself loved Bali when we went, but  a nasty expreience

took the shine off the holiday.

We managed to get sucked in by a Time Share company's ‘fill out this

survey and you could win...’

This sort of thing is getting more prevalent in Bali as tourism grows

and they are out to get the unwary tourist any way they can.

Tips I would give:

• Do not get involved in any ‘free’ giveaways. Nothing is free.

• Do not fill out any surveys, no matter how nice the person seems.

• Being nice to these people only encourages them to try harder to get

you into their offices and squeeze a contract signature out of you.

• If you do get lured to their offices say ‘no thanks’ and walk out. I

wish we had.

• They do not give you time to read any of the legal documents so don't

sign anything.

Besides this pitfall I found Bali one of the most wonderful and friendly

places in the world (except for Kuta, which is dreadful).

Cheers, Fiona.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HELPING PREPARE ME FOR MY TRIP. YOUR ADVENTURE WAS

BEAUTIFUL. I HAVE A QUESTION. IF ONE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SOME PURCHASES HOW

WOULD HE GO ABOUT SHIPPING THEM HOME TO IN MY CASE THE USA? DUTIES? CUSTOMS?

A WOOD CARVING? HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR THE LEATHER WEAR TO BE MADE? WHERE

DID YOU HAVE IT DONE? I GUESS I HAVE MORE THAN ONE QUESTION. WE ARE LEAVING

FOR BANGKOK THURSDAY AM AND WILL BE IN BALI(UBUD) THE NEXT FRIDAY FOR A WEEK.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

BMCTEE

I'm planning to move to Bali with my girlfriend, who is a museologist, and get my live ovet there. Would love to see your pictures.

 

Kind regards.

 

 

Hello from Montreal,

Love your pictures.

The hotel you photographed is the Aston Bali in Tanjung Benoa. We stayed

there for 2 weeks but have no photos of hotel (purists!). Can we buy some

from you, I will tell you which shots?

Also, the shot of the store keeper with the green cookie tin in the

left-hand corner. We bought a cookie tin just like that for 20,000 rupiah

and it's our best souvenir. You should have seen the faces of the villagers

as we walked with it for about 1 mile!

There might be some more shots too, I have to go back throught your album.

How much would you want per 4x6 glossy? Reasonable, I hope.... I just want

to supplement my own 16 rolls....

We will post to but it's a lot of work. You did a great job.

Please e mail back.

Thank you.

Anita and Robert

hai ..

i just want to say that

ur homepage is nice (bali's trip)

i live in bali, gianyar

oke..reply me if u dont mind

alright take care

denmass

Hi Kurt,

I will be visiting Bali coming December 4th.

Understood that you actually rent a car for most of your transport,

I would like to find out more details about:-

1. Which company did you rent your car from?

2. What was the daily car rental fee?

3. Have you taken any of the public transport?

    If yes, any feedback?

Have browsed thru a few web-pages, the average daily posted

is about US$ 30 for a Toyota Kijang. What is your opinion?

Too expensive or reasonable??

I saw a car-rental company business card in one of your pages.

Do you still remember their charges for car rental?

Appreciate if you could share with me. Thank you.

Regards,

Eryanto

I wish to visit bali, and would love to see your pictures.

                 From canada.

Dear Kurt,

 

One Taiwan website recommend your website on internet (so many Taiwaness

like to go Bali) and I really enjoy the reports. I've been Bali 3 times, but I would

like to go around the island (circel from maybe east  to west cost) next year.

 

One point is I am a female, do you think it is safty?? -if I rent a car and

find a tourguide?? I know the cost is more expensive. Sometimes, it is

very hard to find the time that my friends can go with me--especially in Taiwan--

when you have to work everyday, it is not easy to take a few days off--even you

have  pay vacation.

 

By the way, my English--well, I think is not too bad (ha!ha!).

 

Thanks for your suggestions in advance, and merry Christmas & happy new year!

 

Amber

From Taiwan

Kurt,

 

We are planning a trip also to bali, and lombok and java.

 

Is the weather the same on those islands?

 

if you can give me more details, i'll be glad to receive them.

 

Thank you very much

 

vincent

 

if you speak dutch, you can mail me back in dutch.

Got to your site via your posting on TVCO site.  Well chosen holiday pics - true internet stuff.  Do you know about the site

http://www.virtualtourist.com/   ?

it may be "right up your street"

 

Roger

carlingrove@ntlworld.com

Merci pour me faire partager ton voyage à Bali. Je m'appelle Gabriel. Je

joue du gamelan avec le virtuose I Made Wardana. Nous formons le Duo Made et

avons joué avec notamment Trilok Gurtu.Dis nous si nos concerts

t'intéressent!

A bientôt ;-)

Gabriel