A serial entrepreneur in Bali intends to develop a motocross race track in the village of Saba in Gianyar. The project involves turning farmland into an off-road race track while generating a new source of income for local farmers.Gusti Ngurah Anom or familiarly called Ajik Krisna is one of the investors of Krisna Souvenirs. At the lobby meeting, Krisna presented his plan to stakeholders, local farmers and the wider community. He shared that he wanted to build a motocross track near a tourist ac...

Precisely the positive news of Covid from Bali today. On Thursday 5 May, four districts in Bali recorded zero positive cases of Covid-19. Across the island, only 13 positive cases were recorded and there were no deaths. This is good news for everyone living in Bali and for international travelers looking to visit the island of the gods in the near future.The chairman of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling the Bali Covid-19, I Made Rentin, yesterday announced that all districts in Bal...

Perhaps in the most significant update to international travel in Bali since the reopening of Ngurah Rai Airport in February, the visa-on-arrival program for Indonesia has resumed in full. Bali's Minister of Law and Human Rights, Jamaruli Manihuruk, has confirmed that the central government has taken over the VOA program for a total of 60 eligible countries. This latest announcement adds 17 new countries to the program starting April 28, 2022. This is all part of the easing of Covid-19 travel re...

The 2022 Eid holiday brings blessings to the tourism sector in Bali and Indonesia. For the first time since 2020, families living apart can travel together during Muslim holidays.One of the biggest indicators that the Covid-10 recovery is underway is the sharp increase in hotel occupancy in Bali. According to the Vice President for Environmental Culture and Public Relations of the Bali Hotel and Restaurant Association, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya, the average occupancy rate before Eid was onl...

A video went viral yesterday showing a river in Denpasar turning red - but not in the biblical sense.Authorities found that all the red was the result of the screen printing company dumping the waste into the water.The head of the Denpasar Environment Agency, IB Putra Wirabawa, yesterday said that the owner of the company had been arrested and his permit was frozen."The root of the problem is screen printing or dyeing companies that litter," he said.Separately, the Head of the Environment Agency...