I've been trying to think of a way to describe of what life looks like in Bali. It's turned out to be more difficult than I imagined because Bali is an island of extremes and contradictions.
Probably any images you can conjure up are accurate depictions of one part of the island and then completely wrong if you go a mile down the road. For instance, a few minutes from my house there are two multi-million dollar mansions set in a rice field surrounded by farmers who barely make enough to survive. Then there is Kuta, an Australian party town that puts TJ or Cancun to shame, compared with Ubud, a quiet tourist town where people go to "find themselves" or learn about traditional
Balinese culture. Then there are beautiful mountains and pristine beaches next to piles of trash that make the city of Shanghai seem environmentally responsible. Also, it's a hindu island inside the largest Muslim country in the world. So you have people who follow rigid Islamic law surrounded by people who practice a form of hinduism where anything goes as long as you don't harm others. So here are a few pictures from around Bali that will hopefully do a better job of explaining Bali than I can....
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