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Surfing and Bali go together like a horse & carriage, meat & potatoes, Seminyak & benchongs. Here’s a short guide to the whole affair. How it began: Surfing in Bali began in 1936, when American Bob Koke, a Californian, who had moved from Hawaii, with his wife Louise, opened the Bali Hotel on Kuta Beach. Bob had a long board he had brought with him from Hawaii and the rest was history. Surfing didn’t immediately catch on though and lucky old Bob had all the waves to himself (he had the whole Bukit to himself, only he didn’t know it was there). The 1960’s saw the start of surfers trickling into Bali and after Kim Bradley, Jerry Lopez and others discovered the Bukit peninsula and the other breaks the scene was set. Why surfing is good in Bali: Bali is a good place for surfing for a number of reasons. These include warm water, relatively uncrowded breaks, when compared to California and Australia. Bali gets some kind of surf most of the year, there are beach breaks and Kuta

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Contact details of all major airlines operating in Bali Air France Grand Bali Beach Hotel Room 1105 Jl HangTuah Phone : (+62361) 288 511 Terminal Keberangkatan - Tuban Phone : (+62361) 755 523 Ansett Australia Grand Bali Beach Hotel Jl Hangtuah Sanur 80001 Phone : (+62361) 289 635 (+62361) 289 636 Fax : (+62361) 289 637 Airport Tuban Phone : (+62361) 755 740 Bouraq Airlines Kompleks Sudimian Agung Blok A 47-4X. Jl Panglima Besar Sudirman 7A Phone :(+62361) 241 397 Fax : (+62361) 241 390 Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd Grand Bali Beach Sanur 1st Fl Phone : 286 001 Ext 1138 Fax : (+62361) 288 576 Bandara Ngurah Rai Tuban, Phone : (+62361) 753 942 China Air Phone :(+62361) 757 298 Eva Air Wisti Sabha Administration Building, Ground Floor, Room No.4 Ngurah Rai Airport. Phone : (+62361) 751 011 ext 1638 Fax : (+62361) 756 488. Korean Air The Grand Bali Beach Hotel Garden Wing Rm 1121 & 1123 PO Box 275 Reservation Phone : (+62361) 289 402 Fax : (+62361) 289 403 Garuda In

BALI People Life in Bali is very communal with the organization of villages, farming and even the creative arts being decided by the community. The local government is responsible for schools, clinics, hospitals and roads, but all other aspects of life are placed in the hands of two traditional committees, whose roots in Balinese culture stretch back centuries. The first, Subak, concerns the production of rice and organizes the complex irrigation system. Everyone who owns a sawah, or padi field, must join their local Subak, which then ensures that every member gets his fair distribution of irrigation water. Traditionally, the head of the Subak has his sawah at the very bottom of the hill, so that the water has to pass through every other sawah before reaching his own. The other community organization is the Banjar, which arranges all village festivals, marriage ceremonies and cremations, as well as a form of community service known as Gotong Royong. Most villages have at least one Banj

The first Dutch seamen set foot on Bali in 1597, yet it wasn't until the 1800's that the Dutch showed an interest in colonizing the island. In 1846, having had large areas of Indonesia under their control since the 1700's, the Dutch government sent the troops into northern Bali. In 1894, Dutch forces sided with the Sasak people of Lombok to defeat their Balinese rulers. By 1911, all the Balinese principalities had either been defeated in battle, or had capitulated, leaving the whole island under Dutch control. After World War I, Indonesian Nationalist sentiment was rising and in 1928, Bahasa Indonesia was declared the official national language. During World War II, the Dutch were expelled by the Japanese, who occupied Indonesia from 1942 to 1945. After the Japanese defeat, the Dutch tried to regain control of their former colonies, but on August 17, 1945, Indonesia was declared independent by its first President, Sukarno. After four years of fighting and strong criticism f

Although there are no artifacts or records dating back to the Stone Age, it is believed that the first settlers on Bali migrated from China around 2500 BC. By the Bronze era, around 300 B.C. quite an evolved culture existed in Bali. The complex system of irrigation and rice production, still in use today, was established around this time. History is vague for the first few centuries. A number of Hindu artifacts have been found dating back to the 1st century, yet it appears that the main religion, around 500 AD was predominantly Buddhist in influence. A Chinese scholar, Yi-Tsing, in 670 AD reported on a trip to India, that he had visited a Buddhist country called Bali. It wasn't until the 11th century that Bali received the first strong influx of Hindu and Javanese cultures. With the death of his father around AD 1011, the Balinese Prince, Airlanggha, moved to East Java and set about uniting it under one principality. Having succeeded, he then appointed his brother, Anak Wungsu, as

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