The landscape on Aruba is bare and desert-like. In fact, the island is anything but a paradise. That is, if it were not for the beaches, which stretch for miles along the coats, promising idyllic days by the turquoise ocean. That is the trump card for the island’s tourist industry, which has made a name [...]
Candi Dasa could be used as a textbook example of over-exploitation of nature, which is still taking revenge. The beautiful beach in front of the bungalow complex was once protected by a coral reef, which fell prey to dynamite fishing and pillage for building materials.
Nature retaliated and flooded the beach. Now, only when the [...]
It was here, starting with the Bali Beach Hotel constructed by the Japanese as a reparation measure, that tourism first emerged in Bali in 1966. This ugly concrete block remains the only monstrosity on the island since a law prevents other buildings from extending above palm-tree height.
Europeans came much earlier: In her must-read novel [...]
The tourist enclave is situated on the eastern side of the dry peninsula of Bukit in southern Bali, whose savannah landscape is completely different from the rest of Bali. Nusa Dua was conjured up as an exclusive tourist oasis far away from any villages with the help of the World Bank.
The concept behind this [...]
