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...another way of keeping healthy, as are riding and golf, which can be arranged on request. There's also a beach just a short walk away. But if you feel you've earned a treat, the restaurants, cafés and bars of Bali's lively nightlife area, Seminyak, are only a 10-minute drive from Desa Seni. Rates start from $120 a night for a one-bedroom house, including airport transfers and breakfast...
...after three suicide bombers detonated knapsacks filled with explosives at packed restaurants in Kuta and Jimbaran Bay on Oct. 1, there wasn't the same rush for the exits. Kuta's famous waves are still dotted with surfers. Even the wide-open beachfront restaurants in the high-end Seminyak district north of Kuta are still buzzing, despite a warning last week from the Australian government that the area might be next on the terrorist hit list. At the trendy restaurant Ku De Ta, 20 or so tipsy Australian revelers wearing flower leis and fake horns circulate among the loungers...
...Wiranatha knows that fate dealt him a survivor card this time around?one of his bars, the sophisticated Ku DE Ta in Seminyak, is managing to stay afloat due to a loyal expat clientele?but he worries about others. "We have a ceremony to send the victims to heaven, but what about those left behind? Those who lost a father, a business, how do they eat, how do they send their children to school?" If the tourists don't come back, or another bomb hits the region, Wiranatha knows that as a last resort, he can always return...