What to prepare for going to Bali and things to note when going to Bali

Everyone knows that the scenic spots in Bali are very popular. Today I will tell you about the guide to Bali. You can read this guide when you go there. This guide is quite practical. Let’s check it out together.

Homework

All good beaches are private sites. They are hotels or private clubs, and there are restrictions on entry.

The locals are relatively simple but The Javanese are very cruel and anti-Chinese.

There are people called village policemen everywhere, who are the local underworld. They will do some illegal things but also help the police maintain stability.

The local government is very, very corrupt (much more powerful than the Chinese Empire, which can be seen from the buildings. Ordinary houses in Bali basically look like old houses in small counties, but the buildings of government agencies But it is very luxurious.

You need to rent a car (motorcycle, taxi) for free travel. Many areas in Bali are mountainous, and riding a bicycle will be exhausting.

Be careful about the local area when renting a motorcycle. The traffic police like to fine foreigners, and they will try their best to fine you up to 250W (about 2500 yuan)

We got up early and started our free trip. Since we didn’t know where to go Rent a motorcycle (because the guide basically said it was near the airport, so I asked the front desk of the hotel to help me rent a car. After a while, he helped me find a motorcycle with only one rearview mirror. It was very old and outdated. And the price was also very good. It was 8W more expensive than the one on the guide (50 yuan per day), so I thought, forget it, just have a car. So I took my helmet on and hit the road.

Road conditions in Bali

The roads in Bali are very It is very narrow, and there are many more motorcycles than motor vehicles. They all run in one lane. Motorcycles can also be driven on Bali's highways, which are equivalent to national highways in my country. U-turns at traffic lights are very rare. It's totally dangerous to jump in when there is no car, so everyone among the locals wears helmets, which is different from China (it's good to have helmets, otherwise I would have stayed in Bali)

Suggestions

1. Please do not use online shopping for travel packages, or ask the other person which company they are traveling with, etc.

2. When traveling abroad, you must buy safety insurance

3. You must open a visa and mastercard when traveling abroad

4. Bali is a province in Indonesia, and the locals are not very anti-Chinese, but they may ask for it due to their low income. Tips. If you travel there, I hope you can give them to the Indonesians who have helped you within your own financial limits.

5. Don’t rent a motorcycle when traveling in Indonesia. Just rent a taxi for a day. It costs about a few hundred yuan. If you are traveling on a motorcycle, be sure to rent a car from a regular car rental agency and be prepared to be fined by the traffic police.

6. Be sure to protect yourself when abroad, otherwise call the embassy. It may not work

Note

1. The local water quality is not good, so do not drink it directly. It is safer to drink bottled mineral water.

2. Prepare more change. IDR 5,000 to 10,000 or US$1 is a small fee. From the moment you get off the plane and apply for your visa on arrival, someone will ask you for a tip (there is a red envelope on the table. After completing the procedure, you will see that you are Chinese and point to the red envelope and tell you Saying "Congratulations on getting rich", uh...

3. Eating out mostly requires additional taxes and service charges, ranging from 15% to 21%, so there is no need to pay extra tips.

4. You cannot show your arms or legs when you go to the temple. There is something like a sari at the door of the temple that you can wrap yourself in. There are no hard and fast rules, but most of them require appropriate donations.

5. When a local kneels down to pray, do not stand in front of him.

6. If you need to take a taxi when going out, blue taxis are more reliable. If you are going somewhere far away, such as Ubud, it is more cost-effective to charter a car. The taxi driver who works in front of the hotel is not necessarily more reliable than the illegal taxi driver who works on the street.

7. Don’t touch children’s heads, and of course adults’ heads.

9. In many places (on the street, in front of shops, in front of houses, etc.), many small paper boxes will be placed in front of the door, with flowers and other things inside. Be careful not to step on them. This is a sacrifice for the locals. Or a way to pray.

10. Set aside 150,000 Indonesian rupiah before leaving, and you need to pay the departure tax.

11. It is not cost-effective to change money at the airport, and the hotel is not available. The exchange points in urban areas are cost-effective.

12. When locals tell you the price, they will omit the thousand. For example, they say 50, but it is actually 50,000, which is 50,000.

13 , you need to bring a conversion plug

14. You need to bring some gastrointestinal medicine

15. Language, yes, their "r" is pronounced "l", and it is "llll". "...

16. Drive on the left in local traffic. Pay attention to traffic safety, especially the motorcycles flying all over the street.

17. From October every year to the following year March is the rainy season, and there will be sudden clouds and heavy rain, but it will mostly be showers and will pass in a while.

18. If you want to experience culture, go to Ubud, for business, go to Kuta, and for romance, go to Jimbaran. Convenient to Nusa Dua.

tips

1. Both Jakarta and Bali in Indonesia are visa-free. Chinese people can just go through the general transit channel. Don’t go to Visaonarrival. Indonesian customs will not remind you that you can Those who are exempted from the visa will be charged one by one

Then, get off the plane and walk quickly. If there are many people lining up behind you, the customs will not ask for a bribe. If you ask, you can ask for a bribe.

2. In fact, there are many travel brochures provided to tourists at Bali Airport. I personally think that if you have the ability, you should not travel with a group. If you have time, just spend half a day researching where to go.

3. Sunscreen is very effective. The picture is not uploaded. Anyway, I rode a motorcycle all day and didn’t feel much dark.

4. The local taxis are very dark. Even the Blue Bird taxis don’t have meters. And the attitude is very bad. If you want to travel, you can download a local taxi app, Grab, which can hail motorcycles and also deliver express delivery. Although delivering express delivery is useless (°_°

5. The problem with local Internet access, my The best trick is to buy a phone card in China first, and then change the card locally to get signal directly. The price of buying it domestically is generally about the same as buying it locally

The card I am using now is bought in Jakarta, and it costs 30 yuan for 4 GB of data. , no calls, for reference.

You can buy it on Universal Taobao including Europe and the United States. It is cheaper than opening a local card, because you cannot buy multi-country calling cards locally in Europe. Changing a card is time-consuming, troublesome, and much more expensive. In the United States, it is very expensive to open a card at a regular operator store. It only costs more than ten dollars to buy a card from a small operator, such as Lycamobile, and the price is about the same on Taobao.

6. For air tickets, it is best to buy China Airlines. The service is relatively good. There is no free baggage allowance when buying low-cost airlines Airasia or Lion Air and Tiger Air. If you buy low-cost airline tickets, it is recommended to call to book luggage first. , if you book it at the airport, the price is so expensive that you can’t breathe

Air tickets

I booked it on a certain software. Basically, based on my experience, the price of air tickets on this software is They are basically cheaper than competitors, and you can basically buy one-way or round-trip air tickets from home to abroad at the lowest price. You don’t need to consider other platforms. You should know the specific software, so I won’t talk about booking air tickets abroad. If you apply for VISA or MASTER, you can use Skyscanner to book local air tickets in Indonesia, and use Priceline for European and American air tickets (occasionally you can find cheap air tickets from domestic to European and American, but the APP is not as convenient as domestic software.

Visa

I landed in Jakarta, and the entry situation in Bali should be similar. As you know, Indonesia announced this year that tourists holding mainland Chinese passports will be exempted from visa entry, so I bought a ticket and went straight on the road. (Of course, especially if you have a white passport, you need to check your return ticket when leaving China for border control, otherwise it may not be square. Please pay attention to this. However, when I arrived at the customs in Jakarta, I couldn't find the visa-free window. I found a landing. I stuffed 60 RMB at the visa window and gave it to the Muslim female customs officer (yes, that’s right, Muslim, female, and they still charge me... I heard that some friends also had to pay 20-50 RMB when they passed through the visa-free window.

If you have certain travel experience and English proficiency, I do not recommend traveling in a group.

First, the hotel we stayed in is in the bustling area, only a 15-minute walk from the airport. So after I got off the plane, I walked to Checkin, but when I went around on a motorcycle, I found that many Chinese tour group buses were parked far away from the tourist areas... I’ll leave you to analyze the reasons.

2. The tourist attractions arranged by Chinese tour groups are actually relatively few and scattered.

3. Bali tours should focus more on experiencing its cultural customs, followed by natural landscapes. If you go with a group, you won’t be able to observe deeply. If you want to see the beach, it’s better to go to Phuket Long Beach...

Preparation

I personally don’t prepare many things before departure. Here I list the necessary things.

a. Universal power conversion socket.

b. Mobile power supply, 5000mAh capacity is sufficient. Why do you need to bring it? Because the hotels here are very perverted. Many hotel rooms only have one power socket. You and your girlfriend or gay friend must not be enough to separate you...

c. Anti-allergy medicine , it is still necessary to eat seafood, because you never know when you will feel uncomfortable when eating seafood...

d. Anti-itch potion (Shuangfei people are best, toilet water is also ok, because Some hotels may not be very clean and may cause various discomforts to the skin. Anyway, no matter how good the hotel is, my skin will be itchy even if I wear clothes and pants to sleep.

e. Sunscreen oil<. /p>

Stay

You can usually get a cheaper one through a domestic software, and I don’t rule out that you can get a lower price by asking in-store. The hotel conditions in Bali are pretty good. The price/performance ratio beats all domestic chains. The one I stayed in cost 200RMB, with a swimming pool and breakfast.

If you want to book a hotel, I recommend checking the location of the hotel you want on the software, and then go there to check it out. Check in again under all conditions.

Because Bali’s hotels are densely populated and can be found within a few steps, there is a lot of room for choice. What’s more, many hotels in Indonesia are poorly maintained and feel very unclean, so be sure to choose a relatively clean and tidy hotel. Only then will you be in the mood to continue traveling... Some people also recommend using Airbnb. It's up to you to explore it yourself. I will only express my opinion here.

1. How to find a hotel:

① After determining the area to stay, find a hotel in the area;

② Write down the hotels + travel recommended by LP Hotels recommended by experts;

③Search for information about this hotel recorded in travel notes on Google. Usually the hotel’s official website and daodao website’s reviews of this hotel will appear;

④See Look at the hotel’s official website for information and prices;

⑤Look at netizens’ evaluations of this hotel. It’s pretty good, as well as netizens’ rankings of the hotel; daodao is its Chinese official website, but it’s It is far inferior to the English version, but it is more convenient for Chinese people to read;

⑥If you are very interested, check the location of the hotel on Google Maps to see if it is convenient to connect the activities together;

⑦After all itineraries are confirmed, send an email to the hotel for reservation. Many of the popular small hotels are self-operated and do not require reservations through hotel websites or intermediaries. Many do not require advance payment and only require email confirmation. B&Bs are generally not in the directories of agencies, and can usually be booked through email - tourism in Bali has become very developed, and emails are basically available. If the B&B still requires an advance payment, you can ask the chartered bus driver you contacted to help you accommodate, and it can usually be solved.

Eat

Indonesian dishes use a lot of coconut milk, pepper, cloves, cardamom, curry and other spices for seasoning. Chili sauce is also often available on the table. The food here has a strong taste and is generally cooked. It requires a lot of spices to make. The strong taste can easily make people who have tasted it come to different opinions, so you have to try it yourself whether it tastes good or not.

The staple food of Balinese people is rice, and rice steamed in coconut shells (Bubur Injin) is fragrant.

Balinese people like to use carrots and green beans as vegetables. It’s a vegetable-related dish that has both of these, and it’s also very expensive.

How to buy cheap air tickets

There are roughly several routes for domestic flights to Bali:

1. Direct charter flight: only available for tour groups, and must be accompanied by a hotel reservation. It is obviously not cost-effective for independent travelers.

2. Domestic - Hong Kong/Macau -. —Bali

3. Domestic—Kuala Lumpur/Singapore—Bali

4. Domestic—Kuala Lumpur/Singapore—Jakarta—Bali

Air Asia is undoubtedly the most cost-effective domestic air ticket to Bali, and it only requires one transfer from Kuala Lumpur. Even Malaysia Airlines, Tiger Airways, Indonesian Airlines, etc. occasionally have special fares, but there is too little information, or you have to transfer to Singapore/Jakarta. Overall, the price is It is not as competitive as AirAsia.

Communication Network

Each store sells the same sim card, and the price varies greatly. The driver knows which store is more cost-effective, so let them take it. It is most convenient to find one. There are many types of local sim cards: IM3, simpati, mentari, and ProXL. It is said that simpati has the best signal.

The domestic mobile phone cards basically have signals and can roam. Go to the Maxis network ("Maxis" is displayed on your mobile phone, and there is no problem in receiving and making calls. But the price is not generally expensive.

Drinking water issues

When drinking water in Bali, please keep the following points in mind Points

1. Never drink tap water directly

2. Bottled water is generally safe. It should be noted that when purchasing, you need to check whether the bottle mouth is sealed properly

3. Avoid using ice cubes, because ice cubes are usually made directly from tap water

4. Don’t drink fresh juice at will, because some businesses may add tap water to it

5. Boiling water is the most effective way to clean water

6. The best water cleaning chemical is iodine, but it is prohibited for pregnant women and people with thyroid problems

7. Water filters can filter viruses. Make sure the filter has chemical barriers, such as iodine, and the pore size is less than 4 microns.