Southeast of Bali is the island of Nusa Penida, or Pandita (colloquially changed to “Bandit Island”). Under the rule of Central Bali’s former Klungkung kingdom, Pandita was Devils Island to which criminals were banished. Another dynasty of Balinese princes, from Karangasem, crossed Lombok Strait to rule over Lombok from the mid-18th to nearly the end […]

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Many Labels have been used to advertise the island of Bali according to her most striking qualities as seen by the outsider: “œIsland of Demons,” “œ Island of Gods”, “œLand of A Thousand Temples, “œ The last Paradise, “œ and so on. This trend began not too long ago, at the time when Bali entered […]

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