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This is the last of my posts about my recent trip to Bali, where I summarise my overall experience: my itinerary and how it panned out, what I did, how I travelled around and some practical tips. For more detailed information, you can read my other Bali posts: Munduk ; Ubud ; Ubud speciality coffee ; the Nusa Islands ; Canggu, Seminyak & Jimbaran ; and Canggu and Seminyak speciality coffee . And I've uploaded even more photos onto my Flickr . PLANNING  Being invited to join a work meeting in Bali is the dream, isn't it? And better still, I had taken almost no annual leave this year and I was able to add ten days of holiday onto the four-day work trip. I consider myself very lucky! I had less than two months to research and plan what I would do. I had a few Bali speciality coffee shops saved in my Google Map but otherwise, I was starting from scratch. Luckily, there was a 2021  Lonely Planet guidebook , which helped a lot. As soon as I read about Munduk Moding Plantation (w...

I spent the last week of my stay in Bali in the southern part of the island: three days in Canggu and four in Jimbaran. I was attending a meeting in Jimbaran and hardly got to leave the hotel, although the resort we were staying in was so nice that I didn't really mind too much. Here's what I got up to. CANGGU & SEMINYAK I stayed at Sedasa Lodge , a small boutique hotel set around a swimming pool and located a few minutes' walk from Berawa Beach. The room was quiet and comfortable (although I might opt for an upstairs room rather than a poolside room next time) and the staff were really lovely. The neighbourhood was great too: there were lots of fab coffee shops and eateries within a short walk. Speaking of geography, I had made the mistake of assuming that because Google Maps said that Canggu proper (around Jl. Munduk Catu and Jl. Munduk Catu) was only a ten-minute walk away, I could easily roam back and forth between there and Berawa. And I did manage it once, but it ...

Welcome to the second part of my Bali speciality coffee guide, covering the coffee shops and roasteries I visited in Canggu and Seminyak (as well as one in Jimbaran) and their sub-districts, such as Berawa and Petitenget. Five minutes into my first coffee shop visit and I was already regretting not having more space in my suitcase to bring back some more coffee souvenirs, so I devoted myself to enjoying the coffee while I was there instead. And enjoy it I most certainly did! This map also includes the coffee shops I visited in Ubud  and as usual, my very favourites are marked in purple (and with an asterisk in the list below), while dark blue icons are for the coffee spots whose sister locations I visited during my time in Bali. Bull's Coffee   (Jimbaran) When I was staying in Jimbaran, I was in meetings all day and at dinners all night and had almost no time to leave the hotel. Luckily, one of my colleagues mentioned that Bull's Coffee, just across the road from the hotel, wa...