Who loves Bali?

Well the shorter list of respondents could be "Who doesn't love Bali?"

Interestingly I had many chances to go to Bali since my late teens and as I was not interested in going overseas to get drunk and behave badly I chose not to. [Could this have had something to do with my peers at that time?!?!?]

I did finally go to Bali in my twenties, in advance reconnaisance trip traveling throughout Indonesia to see if I wanted to live and go to university there. Even then it was not a love at first site experience. I was with a girlfriend from uni and we had landed there as the typical backpackers - wearing all of our heavy clothing items being jeans and long sleeved tops and sneakers (to avoid excess baggage fees) then crossed the road from the international airport terminal to where in those days hawkers were allowed. So can you imagine arriving in the Bali heat fully clothed and more - carrying a full backpacket then having crowds of women and children around you grabbing your arms and putting on bracelets and trying to plat your hair, sell their wares....?? Not pretty!!!! AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! was my first impression!