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Contents:

• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI
• ULTIMATE GAY TRAVEL GUI TO BALI, INDONIA
• GAY BALI
• IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?
• 'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY
• A GAY TRAVEL BALI CULTURAL TOUR
• BALI GAY CULTURAL TOUR

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI

Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Bali. In Bali you will fd a relatively rich gay scene although not one that is openly flnted.

While homosexualy is accepted, any public display of romance, whether straight or gay, is owned upon.

ULTIMATE GAY TRAVEL GUI TO BALI, INDONIA

The Indonian legal age of nsent for straight and gay sex is 16. Bali is now a gay-iendly place, and is unlikely that gays will enunter any problems while on holiday, pecially the touristy areas of the south.

GAY BALI

The bt place to base yourself is Semyak, wh s open gay scene and plenty of gay-owned and gay-iendly acmodatns, bars, and nightclubs. There is also a fabulo gay cisg area north of Petenget beach. For up-to-date rmatn on the bt plac to stay and Bali's gay scene check out the followg webs:;;;; and Lombok, a Mlim island, owns upon homosexualy and you will fd difficult to fd suable acmodatns and acceptg people.

LGBTQIA+ travelers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals. Although homosexualy is legal most parts of the untry, there is still polil tensn and revisns to the untry's crimal are currently beg nsired which uld potentially crimalize gay sex and same-sex relatnships.

Gay datg apps and media portrayg queer behavr as “normal” have also been banned.

IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?

There are que a few queer-iendly bars, rtrants and rorts  Bali, and also an (unofficial) gay strip on Jalan Camplung Tand Road Semyak at the southern end of the island. Here you'll fd a number of trendy gay bars, rtrants, drag shows and queer-iendly beach bars. Bali is tox and spirual quts, participatg a Hdu ceremony, rart trekkg and learng lol ctoms and language, and ’s a haven for gay travelers, pecially wh the thrivg LGBT scene.

Here’s our gay travel gui to Bali.

'WE LIVE HERE': FEARS TOURIST TWEETS ON GAY LIFTYLE MAY BACKFIRE ON BALI'S LGBT MUNY

Thanks to geo rorts, scenery and jt pure fabulons of Bali island life, the gay scene is burgeong wh ternatnal visors. The gay strip— Dhyana Pura—is home to gay bars and gay iendly tablishments, and the rorts, beach, rtrants and attractns are unarguably paradise for the LGBT muny.

A GAY TRAVEL BALI CULTURAL TOUR

In fact, one don’t necsarily need a gay travel gui to Bali; ’s already pretty gay. Here’s our gay travel gui to Bali based on popular regns.

Neverthels, Semyak do harbor some of the island’s bt sunsets, hotels keep their beachont tidy and the mp-fed “gay” street is novelty alone. Speakg of gays, they e to Semyak drov.

In Semyak, there’s a gay “beach” though ’s reputatn of cisg preces (which is great if that’s how you roll! You’re better off at Ku De Ta, a sual hangout favored by both hetero and homo alike, known for beachont banas, a South Beach-style scene wh lounge groov and killer cktails to boot. The strongt ditn Semyak lur the LGBT muny is the fact ’s the only place wh gay nightlife Bali.

BALI GAY CULTURAL TOUR

You’ll fd the motherload on Dhyana Pura, a ty street home to a strg of small gay bars. What mak this strip excg is that the streetont bars allow the patrons to flood out to the street, particularly on the weekends: tourists (both gay and straight) pse to socialize, flirt and get a nice dose of the ee shows at the bars. W managed to mcle s way onto the beach, brgg s signature ameni and sign gays live for.

The fortably chic boutique is a three-mute walk to the gay strip so my stumblg walks home were short and sweet whout havg to hop on the back of someone’s moped for chump change.

We n’t not clu this hotel our gay travel gui to Bali.