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Originally Posted by Pipecrew
How was Bali? I hear the bali that people expect to see and the bali that they end up seeing are very very different.
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Just reading some travel blogger - worst trip of his life, he is always repeating how shocked he is that people call it "paradise" etc. Simple examples as scams, all tourists will be ripped off if they rent motorbikes etc (renters, of course, do not warn people about that). Etc etc. Everyone is trying to rip you off, if you negotiate more seriously they can simply say "fuck off", then unofficial "ticketing" near temples etc etc, scamming that "you must go with a guide" etc etc.
Also - how they deliberately do not have public transport and rip of tourists with ridiculously high (usually higher than even western prices) taxi fares...
He has been to lots of Asian countries and loved it and he is shocked why would anyone go to Bali. Or Indonesia for that matter.