The Secret Map

Travel Essays by Simon Slater

Tag: Bali

  • Bali the Magic Island

    Beyond the tourist crowds, the Hindu island of Bali remains a spectacular highlight of Southeast Asia. The fusion of intoxicating spirituality and invigorating natural beauty make it a destination that will leave it hooks in you long after you’ve left it’s shores. The Island of the Gods is truly magical.          See…

  • Eat, Pray, Kill: Ubud Fight Club

    As much of America surfaces in a ball park, on a golf links, at a race track, or around a poker table, much of Bali surfaces in a cock ring. For it is only apparently cocks that are fighting there. Actually, it is men. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures Ubud, Bali. The towering shops…