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...surrounding islands. The explosions that rocked the Hindu island moments before midnight Saturday did more than kill dozens and injure scores of innocent barhoppers, tourists and natives-they serve as a reminder that terrorists are not only present but active throughout the country. The two bombs-one placed on Kuta's busiest nightlife thoroughfare and the other in Denpasar near the U.S. consulate-seemed targeted at foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Hits Hard in Indonesia | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

Nearly 30 years on, Wheeler concedes that backpackers have helped ruin parts of Asia. "The place I always look at is Kuta beach on Bali," says the 54-year-old Australian. "It was really quite a wonderful place, and I go back now and think, 'What a hellhole.'" His books bear some responsibility, he admits. "We are an influence, there's no question of that, and maybe there wouldn't have been so many backpackers without us." But as visitor numbers climb each year, no one has any plans to stem the flood. Wheeler offers no grand solutions, sticking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'explorers' Who Swallowed the World | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...without a plug. Also, start filling the tub immediately if you hear gunshots. One of the things that goes first and fast in insurrections and civil wars is the water supply. But travel is not all grim. When in Bali, do not pass up the free-lance masseuses on Kuta Beach. And if you happen into Peshawar, make straight for Salateen's and try the leg of lamb, "a treat of international renown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Telling Readers Where to Go | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...horizon and all the rest of the world curve away from atop the crater's rim, and then spend three days lost in the jungle searching for a path down before travelling on alone to Java. Dick and Jerry wrote novels. King discovered the hallucinogenic sunsets of Kuta Beach, and chose to spend most of the rest of the year on his own considering interior horizons and the curious capacities of memory. Erik decided, while resting beside the waterfall pool where young villagers occasionally bathed, that he had traveled enough, but then, found himself in New Delhi hunting ganja...

Author: By Richard Leo, | Title: A Grand Multi-Media Functionally Kinetic Thesis | 6/2/1976 | See Source »

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