By some incredible quirk of marketing by vacation-industry mandarins, the “high season” for visitors to Bali has been mandated to coincide with the rainy season. Everyone knows that, but they still pay inflated prices for everything during a time when they are sure to be regularly saturated. High season in Bali is hot, humid – [...]

By Vyt Karazija
After living here for a while, it’s inevitable that you develop relationships with the locals. Casual friendships are formed, conversational interludes become more frequent and before you know it, the local people are talking about the vicissitudes of their day-to day lives.
And in Bali, this often seems to end up as a lament [...]

I am beginning to suspect that Bali not only originated a unique approach to engineering and construction, but could well be leading the world in its implementation.
For months I have examined how things work here, from aerosol nozzles that squirt sludge to whole villas where nothing works as it should. I now believe that Bali’s [...]

By Vyt Karazija
It’s the little things in Bali that bug you. The broad brush-strokes of life on this island – the weather, the culture, the prices, the freedom – are wonderful, and I treasure them. But it’s the little things that soon become festering irritations that niggle and nibble like termites feasting on your spirit, [...]

By Vyt Karazija
Western notions of time do not transplant-easily to Bali. My pre-Bali life was characterised by what seems now to be an obsessive desire to know which particular instant of time I was inhabiting at any given moment. For me to be comfortable back in my past life, I needed to constantly know the day, [...]