For those of you lot visiting Bali for the start time, welcome as well as bask yourselves to the absolute maximum! Bali is a marvelous house to guide keep a vacation as well as I sure don’t wish to scare you lot off. We demand to a greater extent than visitors to come upwardly as well as bask the beauty of this magical island. And you lot will!
But, as well as at that topographic point ever is a ‘but’ isn’t there, Bali ain’t what it used to be, as well as is inwards danger of changing from the “Bali nosotros wish it to be” if nosotros are non very, real careful.
Bali, inwards the minds of millions of tourists as well as armchair tourists around the world, is the prototype of tropical, exotic travel, where beautiful native girls trip the lite fantastic toe to the hypnotic pounding of gongs inwards temples as well as palaces surrounded past times lush terraces of paddy fields, as well as palm trees moving ridge inwards the gentle breezes every bit the sunset cocktails are sipped. Idyllic indeed!
The reality is that spell that aspect is yet (just) available, an absolute regular army of developers, traders, retailers, restauranters as well as industrialists are doing everything they tin move to dig upwardly pristine Bali spell yet using the exotic Bali ikon they are destroying to sell their wares! And it’s happening quickly.
Just 25 years agone Bali was yet the green, lush isle that nosotros (or at to the lowest degree I) wish it to be. Now it’s disappearing behind a majority of billboards, store houses, high rising malls, villa developments (with 20m high walls), as well as it seems nosotros are powerless to halt it. Why?
It appears that fifty-fifty at the highest levels at that topographic point is no connection betwixt the preservation (never heed protection, enhancement, as well as improvement) of the tourism production as well as the every twenty-four hr menstruum unplanned evolution that continues unabated.
Bali, afterward 2 piteous as well as meaningless bombings, has lost much of its appeal inwards the tourist markets of the footing as well as arrivals are at a real depression ebb. Does that hateful the government guide keep a long difficult await at what the isle has decease as well as start to position things right? It seems not. The edifice of ‘rukos’ (shop houses) continues unabated, the proliferation of incredibly unsightly billboards accelerates, the devastation of beautiful farmland for ‘un-necessary’ housing rockets forward, as well as roads are pushed into fields as well as at 1 time lined alongside depression character buildings (which should survive zoned off into industrial estates).
Until now, from Canggu to Jimbaran, from Sanur to Nusa Dua, at that topographic point is hardly a visible line of ‘Bali’: alone buildings, workshops, showrooms, factories, billboards, as well as offices. All of them ‘businesses’ that depend on having a dynamic, desired tourism production called Bali
Yet at that topographic point are regulations, which I believe yet exist, that enjoin every edifice must reverberate Balinese civilization as well as tradition, that no edifice should survive higher than a kokosnoot tree, as well as that all buildings as well as developments should observe Balinese traditions as well as community needs first. This exactly is non beingness enforced at all as well as inwards my persuasion presents to a greater extent than danger to the futurity of Bali tourism than the threat of terrorism ever will.
There are millions of sea, sand as well as sun, fun, food, as well as frolic destinations around the world, cheaper as well as closer to principal markets as well as alongside petty to distinguish them except the toll as well as the temperature. This is non what Bali should be, but every bit nosotros lookout adult man as well as produce nil that’s what it is turning into—quickly.
Bali is, as well as must ever be, a house where tradition should guide keep precedence over development, where civilization must guide keep the nod over shopping, where nature must win over malls, where gamelan gets the license non discos, where non 1 to a greater extent than foursquare meter of productive, beautiful paddy champaign is turned into villas.
If not, we’ll survive sitting hither inwards 10 years fourth dimension alongside a meg villas, all of them bought past times people “looking for Bali” as well as finding nil but fast food, malls, traffic jams, discos, restaurants, to a greater extent than shops, to a greater extent than offices as well as to a greater extent than motorbikes than they left behind inwards the ‘industrialized’ west.
Does anyone care? I promise so, as well as that every bit millions of dollars are beingness spent to lure people dorsum to Bali, equal amounts of coin –or at to the lowest degree energy– tin move survive spent preserving the beauty, tradition, civilization as well as heritage of this marvelous as well as irreplaceable island. Because 1 time it’s gone, nosotros won’t larn it back. Sumber http://tourtraveldibali.blogspot.com/
But, as well as at that topographic point ever is a ‘but’ isn’t there, Bali ain’t what it used to be, as well as is inwards danger of changing from the “Bali nosotros wish it to be” if nosotros are non very, real careful.
Bali, inwards the minds of millions of tourists as well as armchair tourists around the world, is the prototype of tropical, exotic travel, where beautiful native girls trip the lite fantastic toe to the hypnotic pounding of gongs inwards temples as well as palaces surrounded past times lush terraces of paddy fields, as well as palm trees moving ridge inwards the gentle breezes every bit the sunset cocktails are sipped. Idyllic indeed!
The reality is that spell that aspect is yet (just) available, an absolute regular army of developers, traders, retailers, restauranters as well as industrialists are doing everything they tin move to dig upwardly pristine Bali spell yet using the exotic Bali ikon they are destroying to sell their wares! And it’s happening quickly.
Just 25 years agone Bali was yet the green, lush isle that nosotros (or at to the lowest degree I) wish it to be. Now it’s disappearing behind a majority of billboards, store houses, high rising malls, villa developments (with 20m high walls), as well as it seems nosotros are powerless to halt it. Why?
It appears that fifty-fifty at the highest levels at that topographic point is no connection betwixt the preservation (never heed protection, enhancement, as well as improvement) of the tourism production as well as the every twenty-four hr menstruum unplanned evolution that continues unabated.
Bali, afterward 2 piteous as well as meaningless bombings, has lost much of its appeal inwards the tourist markets of the footing as well as arrivals are at a real depression ebb. Does that hateful the government guide keep a long difficult await at what the isle has decease as well as start to position things right? It seems not. The edifice of ‘rukos’ (shop houses) continues unabated, the proliferation of incredibly unsightly billboards accelerates, the devastation of beautiful farmland for ‘un-necessary’ housing rockets forward, as well as roads are pushed into fields as well as at 1 time lined alongside depression character buildings (which should survive zoned off into industrial estates).
Until now, from Canggu to Jimbaran, from Sanur to Nusa Dua, at that topographic point is hardly a visible line of ‘Bali’: alone buildings, workshops, showrooms, factories, billboards, as well as offices. All of them ‘businesses’ that depend on having a dynamic, desired tourism production called Bali
Yet at that topographic point are regulations, which I believe yet exist, that enjoin every edifice must reverberate Balinese civilization as well as tradition, that no edifice should survive higher than a kokosnoot tree, as well as that all buildings as well as developments should observe Balinese traditions as well as community needs first. This exactly is non beingness enforced at all as well as inwards my persuasion presents to a greater extent than danger to the futurity of Bali tourism than the threat of terrorism ever will.
There are millions of sea, sand as well as sun, fun, food, as well as frolic destinations around the world, cheaper as well as closer to principal markets as well as alongside petty to distinguish them except the toll as well as the temperature. This is non what Bali should be, but every bit nosotros lookout adult man as well as produce nil that’s what it is turning into—quickly.
Bali is, as well as must ever be, a house where tradition should guide keep precedence over development, where civilization must guide keep the nod over shopping, where nature must win over malls, where gamelan gets the license non discos, where non 1 to a greater extent than foursquare meter of productive, beautiful paddy champaign is turned into villas.
If not, we’ll survive sitting hither inwards 10 years fourth dimension alongside a meg villas, all of them bought past times people “looking for Bali” as well as finding nil but fast food, malls, traffic jams, discos, restaurants, to a greater extent than shops, to a greater extent than offices as well as to a greater extent than motorbikes than they left behind inwards the ‘industrialized’ west.
Does anyone care? I promise so, as well as that every bit millions of dollars are beingness spent to lure people dorsum to Bali, equal amounts of coin –or at to the lowest degree energy– tin move survive spent preserving the beauty, tradition, civilization as well as heritage of this marvelous as well as irreplaceable island. Because 1 time it’s gone, nosotros won’t larn it back. Sumber http://tourtraveldibali.blogspot.com/