WOW that carved painted doorway was absolutely sensational. I'm always photographing doorways in Bali. Love the family compounds. We could all benefit from this housing mindset to live. Thanks for your daily vignettes of life in Bali, it's my only cheeky 10 mins on YT each day. 😊 🙏
Hey Sandie. i think it was yourself who mentioned previously your love of ornate doorways, and while we may be the only two...isn't that a great doorway to be looking at everyday in your home!? And yes, there's a lot to be said about the style of living in Bali....and their doorways. :)
I must have lived there in a former life. I live in the States, but always wanted a house with an open courtyard in the center. To see those beautiful homes is just incredible. I have even drawn up designs very similar, before knowing they exist. Beautiful 😍
It's great that artists, wood and stone carvers are so accessible in Bali. Many workshops right on the roadside as you ride around the villages. I often stop and watch them for a while especially the wood carvers. Everything here is cottage industry. Another insightful video.
I think that's something people don't fully appreciate - that you can walk into many studios, homes, or workshops and the artist or carver will happily chat about life and everything with you.
Wow Ubud has changed a lot now , since my last time there 20 yrs ago. I went with my mum the first time ,I was told don't eat food from the street stalls. I did , i tried everything didn't get Bali Belly .I took a few packets of gastro-stop & Charcoal tablets with me at all times just in case. You can pick up some great bargains ,I had a wonderful 3 weeks there .Thanks for sharing mate.
ahhhh back to the 70;s when Kuta was just a village, owned by the locals. would not go gthere now, like a plastic anywhere mall and land stolen from villages.
I don't live in Bali but I've been living in Jakarta for over 30 years. In the old days before online services, one had to use angkot (small mini buses) a bit smaller than the one you got on. I always wondered what people would say back home if they could see how I lived. It was fun. Hot, sweaty and often took a long time as they stopped to wait for passengers. Indonesian is not an easy language to speak well. People who say it is, don't understand the nuances, tones and hidden meanings. Travelling around Jakarta on those angkots was a lesson in culture, language, patience and community. I bet if I said "minal" (a saying often called by public transport drivers & conductors) most foreigners would have no idea what I'm saying. Most Indonesians older than 20 would know immediately. 😂. Keep practising your Indonesian. It is the only way to really integrate into the community. Be aware though, Indonesian is not the Balinese peoples first language. Keep up the good work.
@fiascodagama1 thank you. If you would like to meet us , we would love to walk around with you. Will take you for coffee. It has been a lovely day. I'm loving it. No worries if you can't. 😀
My mate and I are always full of Bintang when we go there and we reckon the bugs don’t thrive in an alcohol fuelled belly! Never had Bali belly while we’re there and we ate all sorts.
Thanks for connecting with Made and the other locals in this manner mate. You are exceptional. Bali used to be great, but Ubud in particular is over-run with tour buses, ingratiating local merchants, ignorant other cultures such as drunk obnoxious Aussies and pushy Chinese, diesel fumes and traffic congestion. There are more interesting small locations with good accommodation, food and diving and snorkeling. Amed on the N.E. coast I have enjoyed three times on my seven Bali trips. We usually hire bicycles and just ride blindly out of town, say gidday to locals, stop for a nasi goreng or whatever and return home. Bring your own bike tool kit, puncture patches and pump. The bananas were still a bargain.;-)
"Angkut" (literally transport) was a generic term way back when, - everything from becak (a sort of bicycle rickshaw, not sure they were used in Bali) which was omnipresent in Jakarta and other big cities in Java until they got pushed out in the mid-seventies, bemo (becak motor, a threewheeler a bit like a tuktuk that would go wherever you paid them to), Opelet (8 or 10 seat van conversion mostly used in suburban areas, often still with European steering with very scary results), taxis of course ranging from posh Bluebirds (mostly Holden or Toyota) to reviled Ratax (colloquially known as rattraps, could be anything) and Bis (mostly Indian, Chinese and Japanese). There may have been others I've forgotten. The city buses used to be rented by the day by a crew of two or three, completely unregulated, and there would be fights between rival crews over which one could pick up passengers from a given stop. Terrifying - in one particularly awful incident, two buses raced down Jl. Thamrin, the main drag in Jakarta, and mowed down a large number of people waiting at a stop. (Wouldn't happen now, especially in Kuta or Canggu where the traffic mostly manages a snail's pace.)
Love the standard intro every day Wayne. Ahhhhh the dodgy banana seller let's call her tukang pisang! Your word of the day in honour of her is busuk = rotten. When you saw that dodgy banana you could reply busuk itu = that's rotten.
I have to confess I've never had Peter Russel Clarke comparison before but I'll gladly take it. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.Thanks Michael.
Hi Wayne. That door blew me away. It was beautiful. I would love to know if it was made from teak (kayu jati) or something else. Teak is an increasingly rare commodity; people pinch it from the forest, and the fines are quite severe.
Australian importers come up here (I live in Bali) and buy container loads of antique balinese doors and furniture, you see a lot of it for sale in antique shops in Perth, I'm not sure that's such a good thing, as you say the timber here used to make them is becoming increasingly rare.
Hi Wayne , great content mate ,I am like yourself ,looking to retire in about a year or so to bali , I am also using your vlogs to improve my own use of bahasa , currently doing a babbal online course as well . I guess my first trip to bali was in 1990 for honeymoon , probably should have stayed and sent ex wife home lol. keep up the vlogs , coming to bali for xmas as usual 24th to 8th jan , in kuta , sanur, kuta again so would love to have a coffee together , will come up to ubud on my scooter for lunch if you have spare time . been to bali maybe 20 times myself , looking to travel through asia by motorbike in retirement ??
Hi Malcolm, and thanks. Always happy to catch up for a coffee. Sundays are best for me as it's my day off. You can email me at fiascodagama@outlook.com cheers.
Selemat Malam, Wayne, good advice about "gut paralyzers" & antibiotic, "Flagyl" but aren't these available at the pharmacy in Indonesia? I take probiotics if I remember or eat banyak yogurt. Jangan lupa, sunscreen, mosquito repellant & wound care. Dengue fever is very real in Bali.P.S. Can a foreigner buy private health insurance in Bali? Travel insurance for oldies is so pricey in the US. Does your Australian insurance cover you in Bali?👩⚕
Hey Liz. yes, I guess these things are available in Indonesia as well but I'm a forgetful type and stepping onto a bus and realizing I've forgotten to buy some makes me include their purchase in my "just before leaving" Australia routine. Having had dengue myself I wholeheartedly agree with taking precautions against being bitten by too many mosquitos. Thanks, Liz.
You can buy full international health insurance policies here in Bali from insurance companies and insurance brokers, depending on the insurance company and policy your nationality and whether you're here on tourist visas or a residence permit is irrelevant. I live in Bali I have an international health insurance policy from a British insurance company that I bought through a financial services company here, I have kitas (residence permit) so health insurance is compulsory for me. It costs me about $2600 (Aus) per year for full inpatient hospital cover which covers everything including getting medivaced out to another country if necessary, my policy covers me world wide except in the US, China, or Singapore, I don't bother with outpatient cover as it adds a huge amount to the premium and doctors etc here are not very expensive here and anyway as I have kitas I also get BPJS which is similar to Medicare in Australia and helps cover any outpatient treatments. I've lived in Bali and in West Java for years I've had a few minor stomach upsets but never ever had full on Bali belly so I guess I'm lucky, I don't drink the tap water here but I brush my teeth with it and I have absent mindedly drank a glass of tap water at my home on several occasions with no ill effects. Apart from the tap water a lot of Bali belly comes from swimming at the beach and accidently swallowing a little sea water, the near shore sea water around Denpasar and other densely populated coastal areas has high levels of e-coli as a result of ground water under the city making its way down hill to the sea, the ground water is saturated with sewage as nearly every home has a septic tank and soak pit.
Thanks Wayne for the vids. I agree with your comments on loperamide, and also take it with me for any trips ot SEA. I recently aquired an Amoeba (parasite) in Lembongan, which took residence in my stomach, then it found its way to my liver - metronidazole was the antibiotic used to kill it off. With your experience, do you carry it 'just in-case' of a horrible dysentery type symptoms? I hadnt thought of that, not sure if my Australian doctor would prescribe it just in case. Keep up the good work, love the interactions....
Hi VFR. It's become habit after traveling in Asia a bit over the years to just always have metronidazole on me just in.case as having to make fast repeated trips to the toilet is inconvenient when you need to go into town to by the medication from wherever you are.
Thank you so much for your vlogs. I have been trying to learn indonesian for a few years but have never been game enough to try it. Watching you has given me the confidence to have a go. P.s I have loved watching your confidence grow and your language skills expanding. Great job. Keep up the good work😊😊
Absolutely, that is indeed the beauty of art - some of it resonates with us and that can be quite wonderful. I'm really happy for a person when they discover an artist who moves them, even if I'm not equally affected.
@fiascodagama1 Not criticising your taste in art. Everyone should be free to like what they want. Just think they're not great/close representations of Basquiat. Inspired by Basquiat might be a better description.
Bali Belly has become a bit of a catch-all term and doesn't serve understanding the various causes much, does it? I didn't think the person I was speaking with would have a deep understanding of various gastrointestinal diseases or parasitic problems associated with Bali Belly, and this accompanying my poor language skills and English being a second language for him, thought to keep it simple.
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WOW that carved painted doorway was absolutely sensational. I'm always photographing doorways in Bali. Love the family compounds. We could all benefit from this housing mindset to live. Thanks for your daily vignettes of life in Bali, it's my only cheeky 10 mins on YT each day. 😊 🙏
Hey Sandie. i think it was yourself who mentioned previously your love of ornate doorways, and while we may be the only two...isn't that a great doorway to be looking at everyday in your home!? And yes, there's a lot to be said about the style of living in Bali....and their doorways. :)
I must have lived there in a former life. I live in the States, but always wanted a house with an open courtyard in the center. To see those beautiful homes is just incredible. I have even drawn up designs very similar, before knowing they exist. Beautiful 😍
First trip to Bali 1972. Still going
It's great that artists, wood and stone carvers are so accessible in Bali. Many workshops right on the roadside as you ride around the villages. I often stop and watch them for a while especially the wood carvers. Everything here is cottage industry. Another insightful video.
I think that's something people don't fully appreciate - that you can walk into many studios, homes, or workshops and the artist or carver will happily chat about life and everything with you.
Meds you mentioned + electrolyte replacement powder if you in end start to loose alot of water thru no.2.
Yes, that's good advice, Paxmax.
Wow Ubud has changed a lot now , since my last time there 20 yrs ago. I went with my mum the first time ,I was told don't eat food from the street stalls. I did , i tried everything didn't get Bali Belly .I took a few packets of gastro-stop & Charcoal tablets with me at all times just in case. You can pick up some great bargains ,I had a wonderful 3 weeks there .Thanks for sharing mate.
Hi Kyle. in twenty years Ubud would have gone through huge changes - you'd hardly recognize the place.
Informative as usual, thank you so much 🙏
Hey, Enlightenment. Thanks for dropping by as always. Cheers.
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6:21 woman getting changed I'm the background might wanna chuck a blur or something up
Thanks, Greg. I'll take a look.
Ubud.. An Artist's paradise 🙏
There sure are a lot of artists here, that's for sure. Good ones as well! Thanks, Loopy.
@@fiascodagama1 Lisbon, Portugal is very artistic but Ubud is on another level 👍
ahhhh back to the 70;s when Kuta was just a village, owned by the locals. would not go gthere now, like a plastic anywhere mall and land stolen from villages.
It's certainly a different place now, isn't it?
I don't live in Bali but I've been living in Jakarta for over 30 years. In the old days before online services, one had to use angkot (small mini buses) a bit smaller than the one you got on. I always wondered what people would say back home if they could see how I lived. It was fun. Hot, sweaty and often took a long time as they stopped to wait for passengers. Indonesian is not an easy language to speak well. People who say it is, don't understand the nuances, tones and hidden meanings. Travelling around Jakarta on those angkots was a lesson in culture, language, patience and community. I bet if I said "minal" (a saying often called by public transport drivers & conductors) most foreigners would have no idea what I'm saying. Most Indonesians older than 20 would know immediately. 😂. Keep practising your Indonesian. It is the only way to really integrate into the community. Be aware though, Indonesian is not the Balinese peoples first language. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Dale. Taking the angkots every day is definitely immersing yourself in it all. Cheers.
Enjoyed this one. Just arrived in ubud goingvto explore today 😀
Hi Helen. How exciting that you've just arrived, particularly with the place looking so magnificent. have a great day out there soaking it up!
@fiascodagama1 thank you for replying it is certainly magnificent place. Where we are staying is so peaceful 😄
@@helenvolrath2778 I hope you have a great stay. ;)
@fiascodagama1 thank you. If you would like to meet us , we would love to walk around with you. Will take you for coffee. It has been a lovely day. I'm loving it. No worries if you can't. 😀
@@helenvolrath2778 Email me at fiascodagama@outlook.com if you like. More than happy to meet for a coffee and a catch up, Helen.
Yes, that doorway is fantastic. I also would like to know what type of wood is used, or does it vary?
Nice little tips on Bali Belly too, Thanks Mate👍
Hi Ian. I must remember to ask about the wood. Cheers
Wow good adventures bro👍❤ mantap
Thank you. Have a great day.
I like your daily vlog in bali.. Mr wayne..
And you speak lndonesia language so well too
Thank you, wibiwong. My bahasa Indonesia is still very bad but hopefully it will get better. Thank you for saying hi.
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My mate and I are always full of Bintang when we go there and we reckon the bugs don’t thrive in an alcohol fuelled belly! Never had Bali belly while we’re there and we ate all sorts.
Stick with that precaution on future trip sthen, i reckon.
Thanks for the content, always look forward to it. The artist referenced is Jean-Michel not Jean-Claude. Take care
Did I say Jean Claude? Just one more gaff to add to the list. Thanks John.
Thanks for connecting with Made and the other locals in this manner mate. You are exceptional.
Bali used to be great, but Ubud in particular is over-run with tour buses, ingratiating local merchants, ignorant other cultures such as drunk obnoxious Aussies and pushy Chinese, diesel fumes and traffic congestion. There are more interesting small locations with good accommodation, food and diving and snorkeling. Amed on the N.E. coast I have enjoyed three times on my seven Bali trips. We usually hire bicycles and just ride blindly out of town, say gidday to locals, stop for a nasi goreng or whatever and return home. Bring your own bike tool kit, puncture patches and pump. The bananas were still a bargain.;-)
Riding around Bali on pushbikes sounds like a great way to see the island. Nice.
As an Australian I would never go anywhere with a lot of Australians.
Get enough of Australians here
"Angkut" (literally transport) was a generic term way back when, - everything from becak (a sort of bicycle rickshaw, not sure they were used in Bali) which was omnipresent in Jakarta and other big cities in Java until they got pushed out in the mid-seventies, bemo (becak motor, a threewheeler a bit like a tuktuk that would go wherever you paid them to), Opelet (8 or 10 seat van conversion mostly used in suburban areas, often still with European steering with very scary results), taxis of course ranging from posh Bluebirds (mostly Holden or Toyota) to reviled Ratax (colloquially known as rattraps, could be anything) and Bis (mostly Indian, Chinese and Japanese). There may have been others I've forgotten. The city buses used to be rented by the day by a crew of two or three, completely unregulated, and there would be fights between rival crews over which one could pick up passengers from a given stop. Terrifying - in one particularly awful incident, two buses raced down Jl. Thamrin, the main drag in Jakarta, and mowed down a large number of people waiting at a stop. (Wouldn't happen now, especially in Kuta or Canggu where the traffic mostly manages a snail's pace.)
You're a veritable encyclopedia on all things Indonesian it seems, kmcg. Have you considered starting a UA-camr channel? :) Thanks for your input.
Love the standard intro every day Wayne. Ahhhhh the dodgy banana seller let's call her tukang pisang! Your word of the day in honour of her is busuk = rotten. When you saw that dodgy banana you could reply busuk itu = that's rotten.
Thanks Daniel. The standard intro means a little bet less thinking which is always welcome. Appreciate the ongoing language tuition. Cheers
good vid mate, was in Ubon many years ago, a lot of artisans if I remember well
Hi Wallace. Some great craftsmen around these parts, that's for sure. Cheers.
Can you please say “where’s the cheese” in one of your videos. My wife and I get Peter Russell Clarke vibes. We really enjoy your videos!!!
I have to confess I've never had Peter Russel Clarke comparison before but I'll gladly take it. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.Thanks Michael.
Hi Wayne. That door blew me away. It was beautiful. I would love to know if it was made from teak (kayu jati) or something else. Teak is an increasingly rare commodity; people pinch it from the forest, and the fines are quite severe.
Truly a magnificent piece wasn't it, Ed? i'll ask Made next time if I remember and find out what type of wood it is. Thanks.
Australian importers come up here (I live in Bali) and buy container loads of antique balinese doors and furniture, you see a lot of it for sale in antique shops in Perth, I'm not sure that's such a good thing, as you say the timber here used to make them is becoming increasingly rare.
I enjoyed the content 😌
Thanks Charlie. I appreciate you taking the time.
Hi Wayne , great content mate ,I am like yourself ,looking to retire in about a year or so to bali , I am also using your vlogs to improve my own use of bahasa , currently doing a babbal online course as well . I guess my first trip to bali was in 1990 for honeymoon , probably should have stayed and sent ex wife home lol. keep up the vlogs , coming to bali for xmas as usual 24th to 8th jan , in kuta , sanur, kuta again so would love to have a coffee together , will come up to ubud on my scooter for lunch if you have spare time . been to bali maybe 20 times myself , looking to travel through asia by motorbike in retirement ??
Hi Malcolm, and thanks. Always happy to catch up for a coffee. Sundays are best for me as it's my day off. You can email me at fiascodagama@outlook.com cheers.
Selemat Malam, Wayne, good advice about "gut paralyzers" & antibiotic, "Flagyl" but aren't these available at the pharmacy in Indonesia? I take probiotics if I remember or eat banyak yogurt. Jangan lupa, sunscreen, mosquito repellant & wound care. Dengue fever is very real in Bali.P.S. Can a foreigner buy private health insurance in Bali? Travel insurance for oldies is so pricey in the US. Does your Australian insurance cover you in Bali?👩⚕
Hey Liz. yes, I guess these things are available in Indonesia as well but I'm a forgetful type and stepping onto a bus and realizing I've forgotten to buy some makes me include their purchase in my "just before leaving" Australia routine. Having had dengue myself I wholeheartedly agree with taking precautions against being bitten by too many mosquitos. Thanks, Liz.
You can buy full international health insurance policies here in Bali from insurance companies and insurance brokers, depending on the insurance company and policy your nationality and whether you're here on tourist visas or a residence permit is irrelevant. I live in Bali I have an international health insurance policy from a British insurance company that I bought through a financial services company here, I have kitas (residence permit) so health insurance is compulsory for me. It costs me about $2600 (Aus) per year for full inpatient hospital cover which covers everything including getting medivaced out to another country if necessary, my policy covers me world wide except in the US, China, or Singapore, I don't bother with outpatient cover as it adds a huge amount to the premium and doctors etc here are not very expensive here and anyway as I have kitas I also get BPJS which is similar to Medicare in Australia and helps cover any outpatient treatments. I've lived in Bali and in West Java for years I've had a few minor stomach upsets but never ever had full on Bali belly so I guess I'm lucky, I don't drink the tap water here but I brush my teeth with it and I have absent mindedly drank a glass of tap water at my home on several occasions with no ill effects. Apart from the tap water a lot of Bali belly comes from swimming at the beach and accidently swallowing a little sea water, the near shore sea water around Denpasar and other densely populated coastal areas has high levels of e-coli as a result of ground water under the city making its way down hill to the sea, the ground water is saturated with sewage as nearly every home has a septic tank and soak pit.
Last time I went to Bali was 40years ago. I bet it’s a different place now.
You might not recognize some parts. Best book a ticket and have a look. :)
Thanks Wayne for the vids. I agree with your comments on loperamide, and also take it with me for any trips ot SEA.
I recently aquired an Amoeba (parasite) in Lembongan, which took residence in my stomach, then it found its way to my liver - metronidazole was the antibiotic used to kill it off. With your experience, do you carry it 'just in-case' of a horrible dysentery type symptoms? I hadnt thought of that, not sure if my Australian doctor would prescribe it just in case.
Keep up the good work, love the interactions....
Hi VFR. It's become habit after traveling in Asia a bit over the years to just always have metronidazole on me just in.case as having to make fast repeated trips to the toilet is inconvenient when you need to go into town to by the medication from wherever you are.
Good old Bali Belly, I only had it once but I don't remember it fondly. It is amazing what one small piece of chicken can do to your body LOL
One wrong bite can pretty well lay you out, that's for sure. Thanks for stopping by,WANAT.
Just an FYI never eat what they call chicken in Bali as it is most likely an island dog. It’s well documented
Loving the intro music..... Who is it?
Double You - The Mini Vandals
Banana scam is the funniest thing I've heard in long time. Although I wouldn't be very happy getting bad bananas 😅
Hi Wayne,
Does the artist live in Jl Sir Wedari ?
HI wtaylor. Yes, on Jl Sri Wedari.
@@fiascodagama1 I thought so, I go to chez Monique, silver class in that street.
@@wtaylor630 Oh, nice. It must be fun to make your own jewelry.
I thought you were leaving Indonesia🤔
Hi Manu John. As mentioned in that video I was leaving in a little over a week. Cheers.
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What banana scam?
The lady was hiding the fact that some of the bananas were bad, that was revealed when I turned the bunch over.
Thank you so much for your vlogs. I have been trying to learn indonesian for a few years but have never been game enough to try it. Watching you has given me the confidence to have a go. P.s I have loved watching your confidence grow and your language skills expanding. Great job. Keep up the good work😊😊
Thanks, John. Good luck out there and have a laugh with everyone. It gets easier the more you do it. Cheers.
@@fiascodagama1 Go another island & be forced to speak!
Art is very subjective. Personally, I'm not a fan of Basquiat, but whatever floats your boat.
Absolutely, that is indeed the beauty of art - some of it resonates with us and that can be quite wonderful. I'm really happy for a person when they discover an artist who moves them, even if I'm not equally affected.
😂you asked the bus driver -kenapa pergi 😂 but caption said What time you going😂😂😂
Oh, ok, thanks. I'm getting used to making a lot of mistakes. Ha!
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Not Claude.
14:51 the banana scam 😂
WARNING a dangerous place for Australians....AVOID.
Name checks out. :)
You want to catch up somewhere
Hi odm. I'm returning to Perth tomorrow for a few days. Touch base when I get back if you like.
Scam with a smile...
Dude...not great copies of Basquiat....
I like them, kimn. :)
@fiascodagama1 Not criticising your taste in art. Everyone should be free to like what they want. Just think they're not great/close representations of Basquiat. Inspired by Basquiat might be a better description.
@min 11…..?……food-poisoning….?……because of the weather…?…..lets examine that a bit more thoroughly….
Bali Belly has become a bit of a catch-all term and doesn't serve understanding the various causes much, does it? I didn't think the person I was speaking with would have a deep understanding of various gastrointestinal diseases or parasitic problems associated with Bali Belly, and this accompanying my poor language skills and English being a second language for him, thought to keep it simple.