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Around the island

Bali is small. It is not the same twice.

An hour's drive changes the weather, the light and the reason you came. These are the corners we send people to.

Rice fields beside a lane in Canggu, rooftops and palms behind the treeline

Canggu

Badung

Rice fields and warungs that have not gone anywhere, with the cafes, restaurants and beachfront bars arriving around them. Seminyak is ten to fifteen minutes down the coast on the days you want it.

Mount Batur under low cloud, seen from the caldera rim above Kintamani

Kintamani

Bangli

A thousand metres up on the rim of the Batur caldera, looking down at the lake and the volcano still standing in it. Mornings are cold enough for a jacket, which is the whole point after a week on the coast.

Diamond Beach and its limestone headland on Nusa Penida

Nusa Penida

Klungkung

Pure beaches, conservation land for plants, birds and turtles, and dive sites where manta rays and mola mola turn up.

Thatched and tiled rooftops in Seminyak, the sea on the horizon behind them

Seminyak

Badung

The polished end of the west coast: the kitchens along Jalan Laksmana, the beach clubs at Petitenget, and a sunset the whole shore turns around to watch. Come here to be looked after rather than to get away from people.

Tegallalang rice terraces stepping down a valley near Ubud

Ubud

Gianyar

The centre of Bali's culture and its artistic life. A town in the mountains, nestled among jungle ravines, river valleys and rice paddy.

Pura Luhur Uluwatu temple on the cliff edge above the sea

Uluwatu

Badung

Cliffs on the south-western tip of the Bukit peninsula, above the Indian Ocean. It feels like the edge of the world, and the surf is world class.

Right now on the island

Updated every half hour

  • Canggu

    Badung

    Clear sky

    26°

  • Kintamani

    Bangli

    Clear sky

    16°

  • Nusa Penida

    Klungkung

    Clear sky

    23°

  • Seminyak

    Badung

    Clear sky

    26°

  • Ubud

    Gianyar

    Clear sky

    23°

  • Uluwatu

    Badung

    Clear sky

    26°

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