Video: Bali’s Enduring Spirit — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

Whenever a traveler returns to a beloved place after a long hiatus (in my case, almost 25 years), the trip is inevitably attended by some combination of anticipation and dread. Will it be as great as you remember it? Has time treated it well? With Bali, which I revisited this past summer with my brother, the experience was bittersweet indeed. The resort towns around Kuta are almost unrecognizable with development; charming seaside-shack restaurants have given way to multi-story malls and discos.

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