Ubud sells one thing better than anywhere else in Bali: waking up above a river gorge with the jungle steaming and nothing but birds. The catch is that the hotels that deliver it are often 30–45 minutes from the town’s palace, market and restaurants — so the...
Canggu is Bali’s most talked-about coast: surf breaks, beach clubs, coworking cafés — and traffic that can turn a two-kilometre hop into a 40-minute crawl. Where you sleep decides whether you walk to dinner or sit on a scooter in the rain. Here’s how the...
Lombok is what Bali was before the traffic: white-sand bays with nobody on them, surf you can learn on, and a boutique-hotel scene that has grown up fast around Kuta, Selong Belanak and Senggigi. We analyse hotel and villa projects on this island for a living, so this...
Three small islands off the north-west coast of Lombok, no cars, no scooters, white sand all the way round — and three completely different personalities. Pick the wrong Gili and you’ll either be kept awake by a bar crawl or wondering where everyone went. This...
