Welcome to Bali!

Bali is one of 17,560 islands of the Indonesian Archipelago. Since more than 11,000 of them are inhabited, if you were to visit one island per day, you would go back home in thirty years, one month and seventeenth day (or so…), so I’m really glad if you came here first! Like most islands, Bali has its own dialect, but since the independence of our country, Indonesia, in August 17, 1945, we not only have a beautiful flag, red at the top and white at the bottom, but also national language, the Bahasa Indonesia. At home, we speak Balinese. Our parents teach us before we are old enough go to school. Then our teachers teach us Indonesian. So we are bilingual.

Indonesia is very spread out and also densely populated: a more than 245 million inhabitant, which makes us the fourth most populated country in the world; whereas in Bali, we are barely just over 3 million! At its longest point Bali is only 150 kilometers long, and 70 at its widest. So I must admit that my island is rather small, especially if you compare it to Java, where Jakarta, the capital of our country is located; but you’ll see, you’ve come to the right place. Just like our language, we have our very own religion and culture.