Kuta

Ooaj Travel Guide, tourism, hotel reservation, residence, plane, cheap pension for you holidays in kuta

Free Travel guide Ooaj.com A free travel guide for holidays. Hotels in kuta, Bed and Breakfast!

Kuta is the largest tourist resort on the island of Bali in Indonesia.

	kuta Travel Guide : 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By plane 2.2 By car 2.3 By taxi 2.4 By bus 3 Get around 3.1 By taxi 4 See 5 Learn 6 Work 7 Buy 8 Eat 8.1 Budget 8.2 Mid-range 8.3 Splurge 9 Drink 10 Sleep 10.1 Budget 10.2 Mid-range 10.3 Splurge 11 Contact 12 Stay safe 13 Cope 14 Get out 15 External links

Understand

With a long, broad beach on the Indian Ocean, Kuta was originally discovered by tourists as a surfing mecca. Alas, today's Kuta is a showcase of execssive development gone wrong — a chaotic, tightly packed mass of concrete and congestion, the beach is overrun with touts and most serious surfers have headed elsewhere.

Get in

By plane

The misnamed Denpasar Airport is in fact directly south of Kuta, just 10 minutes away by taxi. See Denpasar for airport details.

By car

By taxi

By bus

Get around

By taxi

Taxis are ubiquitous on the streets of Kuta and the best way of getting around, especially at night.

Some taxi-drivers charge you more than you should pay, especially when the meter is off. Be sure to bargain before you get in if it is not a metered taxi.

The 'Blue bird taxi' always uses a meter and will not overcharge you. If you have complaints with a taxi-driver anyway you can call the taxi-center and they will take measures to their own taxidrivers (who charge you too much or drive unsave).

There is a bit of envy from other taxi-companies because of the good service from Blue bird. That is why you don't see Blue Bird taxis at night near the disco's in Seminyak etc. They may pick a fight with these people.

See

Surf, shopping, party

Learn

Work

Buy

• Kuta Square, Jl. Kartika Plaza. A shopping complex so popular that even suicide bombers have a blast. There are small shops on both sides of the street and a big Matahari department store, with a cheap and utterly wacky collection of T-shirts on the 3rd floor.

Eat

Great balls of fire Bakso ("BAH-soh", meatball) soup is cheap and tasty any time of the day. The vendors wander the streets with their steaming wooden food carts, and are easily located by the 'tink-tink-tink' sound of a spoon hitting a soup bowl. The soup is a small-ish bowl of MSG-laden meaty broth with some thick yellow egg noodle, meatballs, and the optional extras of: fried wanton, fried tofu, hard-boiled egg and occasionally some others. Add some mild chili sauce and sweet soy for a bit more flavour.

Budget

Beach-stall food is delicious, filling and very cheap. These are dotted along Kuta and Legian beach beneath trees or awnings near the road. 'Nasi Campur' is a favourite dish of steamed rice with spiced meat and extras, and is often served in a banana leaf cone. Be prepared to use your (clean) fingers Bali-style.

Mid-range

Splurge

Drink

Sleep

Budget

There are a lot of cheap guesthuoses (10-20.000RP PPPN) on Poppies 2, but you can find nicer places on the lanes between Poppies 1 and 2.

Mid-range

• Fat Yogi, Poppies Gang 1.
• Masa Inn, Poppies Gang 1. Rooms are clean and the staff friendly. 200,000 Rp (2005) per room.
• Sorga Cottages, Sorga Rd.

Splurge

One of the posh places next to the beach.

Contact

Stay safe

Cope

Get out

External links

Biggest country to travel: Biggest cities to travel: Islands in the top travel 40: World Travel guide Random travel link: Nigeria Indonesia England Indonesia Shanghai in China Delhi in India Karachi in Pakistan Sao Paulo in Brazil Galapagos_Islands Greece Oahu Belize Easter_Island Kenya Djibouti Papua_New_Guinea Ukraine Qatar Kunming in China Guernsey Edinburgh Kunming in China Guernsey

• Url Rewriting et referencement made by Atuvu
• Photographe aix en provence Daniel Weiss
• Ooaj Travel Guide Home Page