Secret Bali - An Unusual Guide

Black sand that has healing power, why you should not whistle while strolling down a beach at night, Bali’s most beautiful and least-visited rice terraces, a very special gift to take home from Bali, a workshop where Batiks are created with unique natural dyes, a place to petition the spirits for a baby, the flute-playing pigeons of Ubud, an enchanting village of traditionally styled bamboo roofs, a haunting reunion of some of Bali’s most outrageous demons, one of the world’s best unofficial street art exhibitions, a tree it is impossible to plant, an ancient fertility statue with ＂more than the usual quota of penises＂, a mysterious breed of cattle, a village of the deaf, a miniature version of Java’s Unesco-listed Borobudur, fantastic tranced bull races, the world’s most spectacular traditional fishing craft, an architectural wonder of Bali’s Christian heartland, Bali’s only colonial-era rubber plantation ...

Narina Exelby is a freelance writer and editor who swopped stability in Cape Town and 15 years in the international magazine industry for freedom and life on the road. Her default setting has always been to seek out quiet spaces, which is one of the reasons Narina’s base for the past few years has been the far west coast of Bali, four hours away from the crowds. Mark Eveleigh into free-fall on a career as travel writer, specialising in adventure. He taught himself Indonesian in preparation for an expedition he led into Central Borneo’s ＂valley of the spirit world＂ (which became the subject for his first book, Fever Trees of Borneo).