Along our routes, we were interrupted by a number of religious festivities along the roads and mass rituals around the temple compounds. The people here are strongly religious. They had just observed their biggest day early in the month and for the rest of the month continued to make offerings to their gods.
On the other hand this place relies almost entirely from tourism for its economy. When I looked at the town map, there were lots and lots of "H" symbol on the map indicating location of each hotel.
Literally there are hundreds of hotels, villas, restaurants, spas, shops and so on just to cater for the tourists. And what goes with it are hundreds of taxis and transport vehicles for foreign tourists. At the same time this is made worse by the domestic visitors from nearby Surabaya and even as far as from Jakarta who come here in their own cars or shuttled by buses.
The problem is there is only one dual-carriageway connecting the main tourists spots of Nusa Dua, Kuta and Seminyak. So there are always traffic jams along this road all day long and could easily takes more than an hour to reach any destination. So it is preferred not to make many road trips and just stay in one spot. The Aussies tend to stay at Kuta. The rests mainly stay in areas around Nusa Dua, Sanur and Seminyak. Taxis are very cheap though, in our case our villa provides free transport if the journey is within 10 km.
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