Posted on 06/18/2023 8:57:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It seems that hardly a day goes by without reports of another tourist offending local customs on Bali. There are bikini-clad yoginis doing ‘downward dog’ poses in temple gateways and half-naked hooligans arguing with traffic police over their lack of a crash-helmet. While the world asks what’s caused this sudden rush of inappropriate behaviour, travellers who know the island well are wondering why it’s taken so long for Balinese to stand up and say, “enough is enough!”
In 1972 the iconic surf-movie Morning of the Earth showed a naked hippy teaching elderly Balinese fishermen how to smoke cannabis. Four centuries after deserters from a Dutch ship called The Amsterdam became what might be referred to as the island’s first sex-tourist expats, the alleyways around Kuta Beach were a favoured hangout for gangs of drunken louts, prowling for magic mushrooms and young Indonesian prostitutes.
Long-term expats say that it’s amazing that tempers hadn’t already frayed decades ago but the predominantly Hindu population of this island (lying at the heart of the world’s largest Muslim country) are among the most welcoming and easy-going people on the planet. Finally, with patience apparently stretched to a breaking point, rules have been put in place to curb bad behaviour on the Island of the Gods.
In May The Jakarta Post reported that 101 foreigners were deported in the first four months of this year – including 27 Russians, eight British and seven Americans – and Bali’s Governor I Wayan Koster issued a list of rules for tourists to abide by. Foremost on the list are reminders to dress and behave modestly at religious sites and traffic rules (especially concerning rented motorcycles and the use of helmets) are to be more strictly enforced.
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“Bonking” as in “The Three Stooges,” or “bonking” as in sex?
That is a winner!
prowling for magic mushrooms
Sounds like stinking libertarians branching out.
I learned my lesson the first time in Thailand for no helmet on a motorcycle... Matters not how many locals drove passed without helmets as I’m getting a citation wrote up. Tourists = Revenue...
Its not so much the bonk as it is the boik and the woo woo woo.
Are they actively publishing the names of the offenders? This might help.
Are they actively publishing the names of the offenders? This might help.
Nasi Gorang. If you’ve lost taste buds due to covid 19 it makes some foods taste bad. In the case of Indonesian food it made all of the traditional foods taste flat. A Google image search on “nasi gorang” sure looked like some of the stuff we were served.
I watched it.......but, I still don’t know
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