In Reply to: self driving posted by binningup on Saturday, 17. April 2010 at 17:33 Bali Time:
We have travelled to Bali over 15 times and each time have hired a car and driven ourselves. We are a family so always a car full. We have driven all around the island of Bali and have ventured over by car ferry to both Lombok and Sumbawa. We love the freedom and the experience of having to stop and ask locals directions, have flat tires fixed and generally travel off the tourist track.
We bought a good map at Bintang supermarket, a laminated one so it would last. I act as the navigator and I read the names of the villages from the shop signs so that we keep on track.
We have only been booked once and we were in the wrong and the fine was pretty small. We have been pulled over by the police 4 or 5 times but only for license checks and never any problems.
There are rules and they are mainly stop before the white line at traffic lights and honk your horn when you are going passed someone.