In Reply to: Bali 1981 posted by pgta on Friday, 28. January 2005 at 07:47 Bali Time:
We first went to Bali in 1975. The taxi fare to Sanur was 3000rp.
A good meal was 1000rp. The package cost us $150 and we had to apply for a visa before we could go.
A friend of mine in Bali told me that he remembers that in 1966 there was great excitement down on the beach where a group of local women were crowded around an Australian girl who was laying on the beach.
The women who could not speak english put a Sarong over her in an attempt to comfort her. A doctor from down the road at a village called Legian was called and in broken english explained to the girl that the local women had never seen anyone lay in the sun before and thought that she must be ill.
How things have changed.