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Contents:

• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BALI
• GAY BALI
• A GAY TRAVEL BALI CULTURAL TOUR
• 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

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.

GAY BALI

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

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A GAY TRAVEL BALI CULTURAL TOUR

Here’s our gay travel gui to Bali.

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.

IS SAFE FOR GAY UPL TO TRAVEL TO BALI?

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.

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

The strongt ditn Semyak lur the LGBT muny is the fact ’s the only place wh gay nightlife Bali.