Posted by Roy on Thursday, 25. February 1999 at 22:10 Bali Time:
Regular forum readers and those who have already been to Bali might find the following excerpts taken from a 1927 Travel Guide published by the Orient Touring Company to be of interest. The author was an Englishman by the name of W.R. Foran and he was writing about his first trip to Bali.
"Bali, the island immediately east of Java, is so easily accessible that it must inevitably be flooded with tourists. The only saving feature at the moment is the limited number of pasanggrahans (rest-houses) and their paucity of accommodation. The island can only accomodate about twenty tourists a week; but the day is not far distant when more pasanggrahans and even hotels will be erected to cope with the steadily growing volume of visitors."
"I went to Bali; I saw it; and I am conquered. In all my many travels
about the face of the globe, it has never been my lot to journey through a more picturesque and interesting area. Bali is the superlative IT. Bali is a modern, if primitive, Adam and Eve's paradise. And in Bali is to be found not the "tree of knowledge", but an everflowing fountain of wisdom and beauty."
-W. R. Foran, F.R.G.S., etc
March, 1926