FEW ISLANDS serve up as different a seize bag of vacation pursuits as Bali. On a landmass in regards to the measurement of Delaware, you possibly can search out tranquility within the DayGlo-green rice paddies across the yogi haven of Ubud and journey up the slopes of huge volcanoes. Alongside Bali’s southern seashores, nightclubs entice big-name DJs and ever-more-ambitious eating places are popping up like mushrooms after a downpour. However the secret is out—and has been for some time. As vacationer arrivals return to prepandemic numbers and extra transplants put down roots, Bali’s ever-growing visitors and rubbish woes have turned it into an overtourism poster baby. Fortunately there are as many dimensions to the Indonesian island because the variety of gods worshiped in its Hindu temples. Know the place to look, and you’ll nonetheless expertise the island not solely because it as soon as was but in addition because it may be in a extra sustainable future. Under, 4 locals level you in the proper route. 

The Designer: Hilda Sembiring

Model supervisor at Area Obtainable, an eco-minded design company in Canggu