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Bali International Diving Professionals is Bali's only 5 STAR IANTD registered British and ASIAN owned diving centre and the only PADI diving centres with over 25 years of scuba diving experience and knowledge of the Indian Ocean. BIDP are MANTA ,OCEANIC SUNFISH AND MACRO LIFE SPECIALISTS here in Bali. Our instructors are assistants to our main Photographer, Avandy, and so have a very specialized eye.
Bali International Diving Professionals
JL. Danau Poso No. 26 Sanur 80228
Bali - Indonesia
Tel : +62 (0) 361 285065 Fax : +62 (0) 361 270760
E-mail : info@bidp-balidiving.com
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Bali Scuba is an owner-operated PADI dive shop, combining local knowledge of diving in Bali with personal attention and the highest levels of professional PADI diving instruction, to ensure that each of our divers (guests? friends?) has the most memorable of diving experiences under Bali's magical waters.
Bali Scuba - Jl. Danau Poso 40, Blanjong - Sanur Bali 80228 Indonesia, Phone : +62-361-288610, Fax : +62-361-270862 - email: letsdive@baliscuba.com
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Water Worx Dive Center - Bali offers 1 day SCUBA diving trips as well as multi day SCUBA diving safaris to all of Bali's dive sites including pick up from your hotel or from the airport. Customized diving safaris are our speciality. Dive the Liberty Ship Wreck at Tulamben for Macro Photography, Gili Tepekong for Mola Mola, Gili Biaha for the Shark Cave, Nusa Penida for Manta Rays, the Nationalpark of Pulau Menjangan or all those dive sites combined in a SCUBA diving safari.
Our western dive Instructors teach the full range of PADI certification Scuba Diving Courses in English and German. We use state of the art equipment that is regularly serviced, this ensuring fun, worry free SCUBA diving.

Silayukti Street
Padang Bai - Karangasem
Bali 80871
Phone: +62(0)363-41220

The Australian government warned its citizens Wednesday that security at the Indonesian resort island of Bali’s international airport does not meet international standards.

In an updated travel advisory, it said that the US Transportation Security Administration had declared that Bali’s Denpasar Airport does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards.

It said Qantas and Australian Airlines services continued to operate as normal to Bali with “additional security measures in place to meet ICAO security standards.”

A press release posted on the TSA website said that the US Department of Homeland Security had directed US air carriers issuing tickets for travel between the United States and Indonesia to notify buyers accordingly.

It said TSA representatives were assisting local authorities “with correcting security deficiencies at the airport as quickly as possible.”

Carriers flying between the United States and Indonesia were temporarily providing their own additional security, it said.

The Indonesian government was notified of its failure to comply with ICAO standards 90 days ago, it added.

Indonesia’s most popular international tourist destination has been rocked by Islamic extremist bombings twice—a 2002 attack killed 202 people, while a triple suicide bombing in October killed 20 bystanders.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia said Tuesday that he, too, was under escalated threat, as the number of police guarding him and his family was doubled.

by : manilatimes.net

Designed and built by a British architect for his own use, and furnished and decorated by his wife, herself a dealer in Indonesian antiques, the Villa’s style is a synthesis of traditional Balinese architecture, replete with thatched roof, and fittings and amenities of a contemporary nature. Located on the slope of the valley facing west, Villa Melati features a beautiful landscaped garden, with an abundance of tropical plants. The approach to the house is down a spectacular flight of stone steps. For the return climb a unique private rack-and-pinion lift-way that carries four people is always available when the steps are daunting. A bridge over cascading pools leads to the main house, and beyond, to the inner garden and infinity swimming pool, daringly set on the edge of the property, overlooking the valley. The pool, its spacious terraces, and the small lookout pavilion offer breathtaking views of the river, the rice terraces, and the distant volcanoes.

detail : villa melati bali villas

A Perennial Sight on Bali's Streets, the Sellers of Home-Made Trumpets are Back in Force.

Imported from a huge supporting cottage-industry in Java, thousand of colorful foil-wrapped trumpet noisemakers are now being sold on the edge of every main thoroughfare in Bali in anticipation of that one night each year when fully grown adults don ridiculous looking hats and run about the room making noises that, in other circumstances, would earn their own offspring a solid back-hander.

But, heck, let decorum slide for just this one night. After all, you've got an entire year to live down your behavior on New Year's Eve.

In an enterprise where size does count, a small 30 centimeter trumpet will set you back around Rp. 1,500 (approximately US$ 0.15) with the more obtrusive 1 meter long Table–blaster model going for Rp. 4,000 (approximately US$0.40). Generally made from recycled cardboard and art paper and decorated in bright colored foils, the run-of-the-mill trumpet is a straight instrument resembling either a clarinet or an oboe.

However, specialist trumpet masters make more elaborate models resembling French horns, trombones or Sousaphones – each of which sell for top Rupiah. Local trumpet salesmen are always eager to offer discounts to bulk purchasers in seek of accouterments for late-night revelers at local hotels or house-parties.

When's best to buy your trumpet is a topic of much popular local debate. Obviously a well-advanced science, trumpet market analysts will disagree whether its best to buy early when selection is best or hold off until New Year's eve when looming rain clouds will see street side vendors engage in panic selling.

In any case, with New Year's Eve increasingly close at hand, we suggest you don't delay in buying your trumpet - accepting that it's better to look silly than out of place.

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