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Around Kuta Square and Beyond

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Kuta square is a popular area in Kuta for shopping or just for hanging around and taking a stroll for windows shopping. It is about fourteen kilometres from Denpasar the capital city or five kilometres from the Ngurah Rai Airport (the only airport in Bali.) Many shops selling branded names of varieties of products ranging from clothes, shoes, bags or jewelry. There is a popular shopping centre around Kuta square called Matahari where you can buy all your daily needs and souvenirs. There is also a Timezone to relax. Next to Kuta square there is the traditional market which consists of hundreds of shops selling varieties of products. Mostly they sell T-shirts, pants, sarongs, mats, baby clothes, paintings, cushions, all tagged with Bali. This place you can bargain. (Many Balinese sellers now complained about how clever the tourist nowadays in bargaining. I think because those tourists have read my blog ) Next to the Kuta market is a DVD stores where you can try before buy. And finally

Calm pieceful village of Penglipuran

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Traditional Bali Village Penglipuran Village is located in Bangli regency, about 60 kilometres from Denpasar the capital city. It has about 170 families living in this village, and their house have same layout. All stretched from north to South. The northern part of the village is where the village temple is located. If you go further behind the temple, you will reach the bamboo forest. They use bamboo as tiles for their house roof. They also make other things from bamboo such as walls, wind chimes, chairs or pavilions. At the back of each house, you will see their garden. They plant coffee, snake skin fruit, jack fruit or spices. They also have pig sty with a couple of pigs. When you visit the house, you can see their houses are not a single buildings. But it is divided into several buildings of different functions such as main family building, kitchen, and pavilion which serves like a living room since this is where they have their visitors to sit. The kitchen is a higher building, a

Bali Driver Tour Guide with bigger car

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This is just a quick post about my friends, Nyoman Wiratha and Wayan. They are both driver and tour guides. They have experience taking tourists around Bali, taking people to many interesting places like Kintamani, Bedugul, Tanah Lot or Karang Asem. If you come to Bali in group, say 10 people, Nyoman or Wayan would be happy to take you around with their Suzuki Elf. It can hold to maximum 11 people, depending on the size of the people you are going tour with. The mini bus has airconditioned and comfortable to travel with. It is a private tour, so you can go whereever you like and spend time in places more you are interested in. No need to hurry. The price is 600,000 per full day. That's about 10 to 12 hours. It has included driver/tour guide and petrol. So, if you are interested, feel free to contact me at putu30@gmail.com , I will write to you back.(Nyoman or Wayan will probably will answer your email if I am not able to reply your email). Thank you.