Bali, located in Indonesia, is a tourist attraction with a beautiful natural environment. The climate here is suitable, the air is fresh, the tourism industry is developed, and the infrastructure and service projects are all points that tourists are satisfied with. The ecological environment here is also world-class, and all kinds of delicious food and beautiful women gather. The following are some tips and precautions for free travel in Bali in 2118.

This year, I had the opportunity to visit Bali, Indonesia, which is located at the junction of the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. From Beijing, take a large Boeing passenger plane with 4 or 511 people and fly straight south for more than 7 hours to reach the destination of Bali, Indonesia.

It was already midnight when we got off the plane. We found that the layout of airport passages, turntables for passengers to pick up their luggage and other facilities were basically the same as those in China. The only difference is that the advertising words with beautiful pictures on the wall are basically incomprehensible foreign languages, and only one small restaurant has a Chinese signboard on the top of the door.

I went through a simple customs clearance procedure at the airport (that is, I stood in line at the counter and asked the staff to stamp my passport).

The dark-skinned office girl, with a kind attitude, smiled and indicated that the people in the queue would be more than one meter away from the people who were going through the formalities.

After completing the formalities, when the motorcade left the airport, there were already two buses waiting there.

We received a stout man in his thirties who spoke nonstandard Mandarin.

First of all, he introduced us to the arrangement of tonight's activities:

First, everyone lined up to get on the bus, received the flowers from the young lady at the bus gate, and then went back to the hotel to stay. There are several girls who look like junior high school students in front of the car, and there are many flower strings strung together with ropes on their arms.

they hung such a bunch of flowers around each guest's neck. The flowers on it are similar to Malanhua, but they have a strong fragrance. The guide who received us said that this is Indonesia's national flower plumeria.

after getting on the bus, I was surprised to find that the driving position was on the right side of the car, which was just the opposite of our domestic car. People in the group say that people drive around, which is the opposite of driving around in China.

printing the national flower-frangipani

currency prices of goods in two different languages in the shopping mall

On the way to the hotel by bus, the tour guide briefly introduced himself and Bali: his ancestral home is Hainan, China, and he is the third generation in Indonesia. His name is Xu Xinwei, and he said he could call him awei.

Indonesia is a country composed of thousands of islands, with more than 16,111 islands, of which more than 6,111 are uninhabited. Bali is the most dazzling island in Indonesia. It is shaped like a chicken.

located at 8 degrees south of the Indian Ocean equator, in the east of Java Island, the island is 141 kilometers wide from east to west and 81 kilometers apart from north to south, with a total area of 5,621 square kilometers. With a population of more than 4 million, it is a world-famous tourist island and one of the 33 first-class administrative regions in Indonesia.

Bali is mostly mountainous, and the whole island is mountainous, with high terrain in the east and low terrain in the west. The highest mountain on the island is Mount Agung at an altitude of 3142 meters. Indonesia is an Islamic country, but Bali is the only region in Indonesia that believes in Hinduism.

81% people believe in Hinduism.

The main languages are Indonesian and English.

The Indonesian currency is rupee, and the ratio with RMB is 1,811: 1, that is, 1 yuan RMB can be exchanged for 1,811 rupees.

awei has a lot of rupees with him, saying that anyone who wants to change it can change it with him immediately.

So most of us changed the amount of rupees, and I also changed the amount of 411 RMB into 721,111 rupees.

when the bus arrived at the hotel, a friend of mine and I were arranged in a family. Hotel facilities are basically the same as those in China, except that the socket of power socket is not a standard with us, and the hole spacing is much wider than that in China. Fortunately, there was a base of the electric kettle seat at that time, and the slot could just be inserted into the plug of the charger.

after my mobile phone was charged, I quickly went to bed and fell asleep.

after dawn, I was woken up by the leader. Last night, according to awei's suggestion, I left a tip of 21,111 rupees for the hotel waiter, and then I went to the restaurant for a buffet

After dinner, I found two cars and a tour guide waiting at the door. Each of us was asked to get on every bus according to last night's seats, and the other bus was a female tour guide.

In the car, awei went on to introduce that Bali has four characteristics: "The buildings are short, the roads are narrow, and the streets are full of flowers and offerings. Walk with seven turns and eight bends. " Yes, there are no buildings with more than five floors here, and the road is really narrow.

I admire the driver's skill. On the road where he hardly misses, he drives at a steady average speed, which is not very slow.

Bali Sea Temple

That's it. After breakfast every day, we set off by car and went to various scenic spots according to the expected arrangement of the group travel agency. A brief description of what we saw during this period is as follows.

notes on free travel in Bali

1. Belief

According to awei, birders in Bali spend more than 21% of their income on offering sacrifices to gods every year. Indeed, we can see that there are sculpture shrines of different sizes in front of many houses on the street, with unknown gods inside.

The first thing a woman does every morning is to go out and offer sacrifices to the gods. Those women in strange clothes hold fruits, flowers and other offerings, burn incense and bow.

they don't need a censer to burn incense, they just need to put the lit incense horizontally, and the whole process only takes three to five minutes.

Some people don't have shrines in front of their doors, so they just put them on the street. Then, every day, there are cleaners to clean the flowers and sacrifices.

From time to time, in the squares of some scenic spots, a group of men and women in white hats can be seen sitting on the ground and receiving the water blessing from an old man with a beard. This may be an Islamic prayer ceremony.

decorations and fringed offerings on street shrines

religious blessing ceremony

women who regularly worship in the street every day.

a respected idol.

The belief there is not only manifested in the daily sacrifices of each family, but also in the complicated sacrifices on the beach. The next day we changed hotels and went to a seaside resort hotel. Every afternoon, people there will level the footprints of tourists with wooden harrows on the beach, and then build a simple sacrificial shed. There are bright bouquets on the four legs of the shed, and tables and stools are placed in the shed, as if inviting people to eat, as well as offerings, tableware and flowers. Was put on the table. The petals were scattered evenly on the beach around the shed, and then people walked away carefully for the gods to enjoy. Two hours later, someone went to collect these offerings.

Second, sculpture

There are all kinds of unknown statues and sculptures in Bali. There are beautifully carved statues in front of hotels, scenic spots, courtyards and other places. Some people have the body of a beast, some people have the head of a beast, some people have guards with green faces and fangs in armor, and some people have fairies with kind eyes and colorful clothes, with different postures and images. Most of these sculptures have green umbrellas erected behind them, covering their heads, or wearing colorful robes, and it seems that most of them have only recently been replaced with new ones, which shows the local people's awe of these statues.

a statue with an umbrella cover behind it.

Statue sculpture in the hotel

Statue sculpture with umbrella cover behind it

III. Architecture

There are many well-preserved ancient buildings in Bali, and the typical one is Prisarene, which was built in the 6th century. There is no admission fee for visiting the Forbidden City, but each visitor needs to spend ten yuan to rent something called a box. In fact, it is a flower apron dragged to the feet, which means covering the lower body and blaspheming the gods with rabbits. Compared with the ticket price of domestic scenic spots, it is still very cheap.

The palace is small, and the locals call it Baibu Palace (in fact, there are more than 111 steps). However, the layout of the buildings inside is neat and rigorous, especially the exquisitely carved floral ornaments, which show you the amazing craftsmanship of the residents in the southern hemisphere 511 years ago.

Palace buildings basically have steep tops. Tied with iron hoop head, tied with umbrella palm skin below. It is said that this kind of thing can withstand years of wind and rain. Some less important pavilions are covered with straw.

The gates of all the ancient buildings in Bali have a unique style:

It is like a tower-shaped building with exquisite carvings and different styles. Sawed longitudinally from the centerline, and then the sawed two halves are separated to both sides. The missing gap is that

this style vividly shows the philosophical thought of unity of opposites, and also reflects the local ancients' profound understanding of life in heaven and earth.

there are exquisite carved side doors.

The door of an ancient building (only one side was taken)

Clifford Hall

In the hall

Four. Expressway

Because it is an island country, it is often necessary to cross the sea bridge from one scenic spot to another. Some bridges are tens of kilometers long, and almost all of them are expressway. Strangely, there is a motorcycle lane beside expressway, and motorcycles are seen speeding on it. The tour guide said that the expressway we crossed was designed and built by our domestic engineers several years ago.

Fifth, the beach

There is a famous beach in Bali called Kimbalan Beach. The beach there is very gentle, and when the tide ebbs, it can submerge or expose more than 111 meters of beach. When facing the sea in the evening, you can just see the spectacular scene of the sun slowly entering the sea. There are many seafood restaurants nearby. From the door of each restaurant are rows of tables facing the sea, tens of meters long, with stools on both sides. These are all booked by various tour groups, one in a row. In the evening, people came to the seaside one after another, found their own team's row table and sat face to face on both sides of the table. The waiter served delicious seafood such as crabs and fish, various cut fruit bowls and beer. One for each person. We enjoyed the sunset at sea and tasted delicious food. From time to time, there is a sea breeze blowing, which feels very clean and refreshing, and it seems to have the feeling of cleaning up dirt and dust when splashed on the body. During this period, a dozen male and female bands suddenly appeared on the seaside, playing various musical instruments such as pipa and singing incomprehensible lyrics with loud voices. They sang for more than five minutes, and after winning applause, they went to another place not far away to sing, which was also very lively and interesting.

when the sun entered the sea, it was just dark and a star appeared in the distant sky. Strangely, the stars gradually lit up, and soon turned and walked in the other direction. Then, a star appeared in the distance, its brightness changed, and its trajectory was exactly the same as the previous one. The stars that have been appearing like this are originally planes from all over the world. A plane lands every six minutes in Bali all the year round. You can imagine the busy scene of its airport.

six. Unique custom

I read in the newspaper a few years ago that Indonesia has a unique custom of genital worship, but this time I saw it with my own eyes. Whether it is a street stall or a supermarket, there are realistic male genitalia carved and sold in piles. The small ones are about life-size, and the big ones are more than one meter. They are all carved with fine wood and are expensive.

seven. Characteristic products

Indonesia's specialty products are mainly three types: one is latex products, which have become a major specialty because rubber trees are widely planted there. We went to a latex shop. Among them, latex mattresses, pillows, backrests and baby swaddling clothes are all available. There is a chart of the whole process of latex production hanging on the wall.

the other is coffee. Indonesia is rich in coffee. I went to a coffee shop this time, and the clerk enthusiastically explained it in detail. Of course, the purpose is for you to buy her coffee. After listening to their explanations, I know that coffee is different from male coffee, and female coffee is more precious.

another kind is jewelry. We know that pearls are mainly produced by mussels in the ocean. Indonesia is such a maritime island country, so it produces all kinds of jewels, the most precious of which is Nanyang Golden Pearl. It is said that a bead like this costs tens of thousands of dollars, and Indonesian presidents often give it as a national gift to the wives of foreign leaders. I bought a necklace and bracelet for my family, which is also a kind of expensive jewelry. It's a souvenir of this trip.

eight. Attracting

Bali is an ideal place for celebrities to take wedding photos, so its scenery is really beautiful.

There are many couples in our team who bring their own wedding dresses, and specially arranged to take their wedding photos all morning. This morning, I slept in a hotel with my friends.

Quiet seaside hotel

Clear blue water, clear white sand beach, tall and straight coconut trees, dense green and lush banana forest.

stately buildings, elegant and gorgeous houses. Unique customs, tourists wearing different clothes, no winter and summer climate.

surfing on the sea, parachuting and other recreational facilities constitute a beautiful landscape painting in Bali, attracting tourists from all over the world.

Nine, the end

On the sixth day of my trip, I found a duty-free shop at the airport with duty-free goods for foreigners.

there are several kinds of domestic cigarettes on the shelves, and the prices are much cheaper than those in China. Each person is limited to two. My friend immediately bought four pairs of ashima cigarettes (I don't smoke, so I asked him to buy mine).

Note:

1. Visa, visa-free in Bali.

On June 2, 2115, Indonesia changed the original landing visa policy into a visa-free policy for China citizens. China tourists can enter the airport with their passports (valid for more than 6 months), which eliminates the cumbersome and crowded process of visa processing and charging.

"Published on the official website of Indonesian Cabinet Secretariat:

Since June 11, 2115, Bali has implemented visa-free policy for citizens of 45 countries and regions including China (Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Macau).

China citizens who continue to travel to a third country for government affairs, education, social culture, tourism, business, visiting relatives and journalists' affairs will enjoy visa-free treatment when entering from Jakarta, Bali, Medan, Surabaya, Batam Island, Sri Tan Bin, Segubang, Batam Center and Tanjung Uban, and their stay period is 31 days, which cannot be extended or changed to other visas. "

2. Pay special attention to the entrance: airport tips and green frames.

when entering Bali, the tour guide told us about the customs tipping: because of the government's requirements, those tourists who entered the country at the beginning of the month usually tip now. We don't need to tip the customs at the beginning of the month, but we should pay attention to check whether the passport is covered with a green box. If not, it will be regarded as illegal immigration, which is very serious, so please remember to check it just in case!

3. luggage preparation items: what items do I need to bring to Bali?

When I received the notice of joining the League, I mentioned that hotels in Bali generally don't provide toothpaste, toothbrush, towels and slippers. I suggest you prepare yourself. We stayed in a local 4-star hotel in Kuta (it is said that it is equivalent to an international 3-star hotel), and later found that there are still some general toothpaste, toothbrush, shower gel and hand sanitizer in the hotel, but towels are big towels, so it is recommended to bring your own travel clothes and towels.

for slippers, it is recommended to have one pair indoors and one pair outdoors, because of the beach, swimming and taking a boat. It's inevitable on the road.

clothes, our hotel has no balcony to dry clothes, so we can only hang them indoors. It is not very convenient to turn up the air conditioner to dry clothes. It is recommended to prepare a coat every day in summer to avoid changing clothes. Shorts are essential, long skirts are recommended for taking beautiful photos, and then swimsuits.

if we change the plug, the plug of our hotel can be used directly without changing the plug. If not, the tour guide said that you can borrow it from the front desk, and the deposit is Rs. 51,111. If you have a German standard plug, you can also bring your own.

sun protection, bring enough sun protection index. The sunshine in Bali is really fierce, and it will be dark when it comes back.

it is necessary to have an umbrella to keep out the rain. In February, the rainy season, we went to Bali. When it rains, the sunshine on the beach is very fierce. It is much more comfortable to open an umbrella if you are afraid of the sun.

sun visor is also a must! Arrived in Bali