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...tired Japanese jeep at $15 a day from any of a host of rental places in the main tourist town of Senggigi on the west coast. Gas is cheap, around $6 for a tank, which should be almost enough for a complete island tour. Two hours inland is Tetebatu, a small village on Rinjani's southern slope that offers clear views up to the volcano. Hotels are cheap and cheerful. A cut above the rest is the Hotel Soedjono, an old Dutch colonial house with rooms, plus outlying cottages, most with glorious vistas of the terraces, and a colossal pool...
...drop in visitor arrivals has made some touts adopt a creative hard sell. On a straightforward path to the spectacular 50-m-high waterfall north of Tetebatu, Hasan Udin stops us and explains we have to take a guide. Not because we are likely to get lost or even because he has something to teach us about the surrounding forest. Try to think of it as a marriage, he says. "Sometimes you have a wife and she is no good so you have to get a new one," says Hasan, who, at 25, has just wed his fourth...
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