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Welcome to Bali

Everything worth knowing in your first week — arriving, paying, getting about, staying well, and the handful of things visitors most often get wrong. Written for guests, by the people driving you.

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Reviewed August 2026. Visa fees, the tourist levy, the arrival-card system, fines and emergency numbers all change — and a guide outlives its research. Everything volatile here was checked against current sources in August 2026 and is hedged in the copy itself. Message us the week before you fly and we will confirm what is current. It takes us two minutes and saves you a queue.

Ten chapters

Everything worth knowing in your first week

  2. A traditional Balinese produce market in the morning: baskets of mangosteen, snake fruit, chillies and bananas in orderly rows under a shaded roof.
    2Chapter Two

    Money

    Rupiah, where to change it, and how not to be short-changed

    Reviewed August 2026

  3. A narrow Bali side street at dusk — small shuttered shopfronts with awnings, tangled overhead cables, scooters parked along one side and a wet road reflecting the streetlight.
    3Chapter Three

    Scams & Street Sense

    The handful that actually catch visitors, and the tell for each

    Reviewed August 2026

  4. A busy Bali road at golden hour seen from a distance, scooters and small vans moving between palm trees and low walls, a temple gate at the roadside.
    4Chapter Four

    Getting Around

    There is no train. Everything here is a road

    Reviewed August 2026

  5. A row of clean automatic scooters parked along the edge of a quiet road, plain open-face helmets resting on the seats, rice fields and coconut palms behind.
    5Chapter Five

    Riding a Motorbike

    The best way to see Bali, and the fastest way to ruin a holiday

    Reviewed August 2026

  6. A Balinese temple courtyard on a ceremony morning: tall painted penjor bamboo poles arching over the entrance, woven palm offerings and marigold petals along a mossy stone wall.
    6Chapter Six

    Custom & Courtesy

    Bali is a Hindu island that happens to have tourists on it

    Reviewed August 2026

  7. A shaded tropical breakfast table: sealed bottles of water, whole green coconuts with straws, sliced papaya, dragon fruit and mangosteen, with a mosquito coil and a folded cotton hat to one side.
    7Chapter Seven

    Staying Well

    Water, stomachs, sun, mosquitoes, animals and drink

    Reviewed August 2026

  8. A patrolled Bali beach in the morning — a pair of red and yellow flags planted in dark volcanic sand marking the swimming zone, a wooden lifeguard tower to one side and breaking surf behind.
    8Chapter Eight

    Sea, Sun & Season

    Which coast to swim on, and when to come

    Reviewed August 2026

  9. A Balinese meal laid out on banana leaves: nasi campur with satay skewers, sambal, urap vegetables, fried tempeh and steamed rice in small bowls, with a clay water jug behind.
    9Chapter Nine

    Eating & Drinking

    What to order, and where the good stuff actually is

    Reviewed August 2026

  10. A quiet Balinese village lane in the late afternoon: family compound walls of red brick and pale stone, carved gateways with small thatched roofs, and potted frangipani.
    10Chapter Ten

    A Few Words

    Twenty words of Indonesian will change how your week goes

    Reviewed August 2026

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If something goes wrong

Emergency numbers, the hospitals used to treating visitors, and what to do about a monkey bite, a lost passport or a road accident — on one page you can screenshot before you fly.

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