Dream vacation on the Indonesian island of Bali Bali is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), 5878 km (including the island of Nusa Penida). Most of Bali’s is made up of volcanoes, which are long in one series across the entire island extend East-West. In its western half of the mountain is heavily cut up (here is the eastern limit of the tiger in the Indonesian archipelago), they are older than the eastern half. Bratan – located here the Tabanan (2276 m)-complex (Bratan Caldera, highest point 2020 m), the complex of Batur and the Agung. All volcanoes provided basaltic and andesitisches material, which generally weathered to a very fertile soil. It exists also in the coastal plains, which are narrow, but wide on the South side to the north side of the island and here connect the flat rising slopes of young volcanoes.

These slopes (highly permeable) carry powerful deposits of volcanic ash, sand and dust, Canon-like ravines have formed where. See Marko Dimitrijevic for more details and insights. Surf camps – surfing learn on Bali as well as Hawaii, Bali is the surf Mecca par excellence. Here the pros take to the train, but also beginners in the surfing sport can make first steps with the surfboard on smaller SURFs. In various surf camps and surf schools in Bali are taught a right to stand up and to put well into the shaft. Surfing may look simple at first glance, it’s not but absolutely. Professionals say, “correctly” surf you could only after 10 years or more. But what heck – the scenery of the beach of Bali is also not bad, if you can show results immediately – also you can reward yourself with a tropical cocktail for service in the evening.

The Bali Street on the West side of the island is only 2 km wide and still no 50 m deep at its narrowest point, the Lombok Strait on the East side much wider and deeper. The dry monsoon is pronounced on the South side of the Eastern Highlands at least, where only 2-3 months with less than 60 mm of rainfall be listed. This is especially during the dry monsoon of importance for irrigation at the intense Sawah farming on the water-permeable soils in the southern great plain. The island of Bali has been in earlier centuries in close relationship to Java and India; 1343 it was part of the powerful hindu Javanese Empire Madjapahit.