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Red a Bintang at the Ku De Ta beach front bar at Seminyak and could barely make myself heard above the babble of Australian accents.
Such is the resilience of the to Bali travellers that close to one million Australians will extend on Bali beaches this year.
over 2011, 790,965 made the pilgrimage and that figure has been growing by around 22 per cent annually, With almost one in three visitors to Bali now carrying Australian passports. It seems the affinity that exists between Australians and Balinese was heightened rather than weakened by the traumas of the past 10 years.
Speak to Balinese and they are embarrassed and apologetic about what occurred. They regard us as guests as well as a source of income, The interdependence between our two peoples unspoken.
We look to them for suitably close, low-priced, Tropical holidays that match our beach culture, They look to us for their economic wellness.
On a fantastic winter's day in Jalan Raya Seminyak, applying traffic an unbroken conga line of cars and bikes, The latter stacked with everything from several dozen caged chickens to a family of four, The aussie presence is palpable.
The accent flows out of shops and on to the road and pursues me into a massage parlour where $10 buys an hour of soothing indulgence, the ability marred only by the incessant chatter of the unmistakably Australian woman in the adjacent cubicle.
She already been through it, Done that particular. She visited Bali too.
on day, The broad sands of the surf beaches are engrossed in the serried ranks of tourists, Bared bodies hued from deep brown to a pale, Almost translucent white that suggests an escape from a Melbourne winter, Hawkers weaving their patient way your throng selling sunglasses, kites, Cheap jewellery and the very important saris.
at night, The cheap bars in Kuta are crowded with the muscle shirt and Bintang Tshirt hordes while those aspiring to a more sartorial presence and who don mind paying Australian prices for alcohol head for the smart bars along the Seminyak beachfront.
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