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Fashionable Paradise: Living in Luxury on the Island of Bali

Bali first emerged onto the tourist scene back in the seventies, when hippies dropped in to indulge in psychedelic trips and frivolous naked bathing. Long before that, a Californian couple setup the first hotel next to Kuta beach in the thirties, which wasn’t much more than a wooden shack, but the few guests that stayed enjoyed the lush surroundings in relative obscurity until the couple shut up shop and moved on.