Nusa Lembongan is the island Bali used to be: thirty minutes by fast boat from Sanur, four kilometres wide, no traffic lights, three world-class surf breaks and a handful of hotels small enough to know your name by the second morning. It also has no large resorts at...
“Boutique” is the most abused word in Bali hotel marketing: 200-room resorts use it, so do three-room homestays. Our rule for this list is simple — under about 60 keys, a point of view in the design, and a reason to stay there rather than anywhere else. We...
Bali is not one place. The island packs a party coast, a surf peninsula, a jungle town, a resort enclave and a volcanic east coast into something the size of a small county — and the traffic between them means your choice of base shapes the whole trip. This guide...
Labuan Bajo is a fishing port on the western tip of Flores that happens to be the gateway to Komodo National Park — dragons, the Padar viewpoint, Pink Beach and some of the best manta diving in Indonesia. Where you sleep decides your mornings: a 5 am speedboat to...
Bali and Lombok sit 35 km apart across a strait, and the numbers tell you most of what you need to know: Bali welcomed about 6.9 million foreign visitors in 2025; Lombok, around 430,000 the year before. One island has the restaurants, the beach clubs, the direct...
