In Reply to: Not really..... posted by C Shell on Thursday, 8. July 2004 at 07:53 Bali Time:
I filled a trolley there and it cost me about $130 NZ..brilliant range and amazing prices! One thing to watch out for though...before you put anything in your trolley check it carefully with your eyes. We had one little carved, painted mask declined at Customs. The customs agent also let us break a bit off one of the stand-up painted wooden shadow puppets (largest, dearest about 29,000) and keep the rest..all because of two tiny borer holes. They just looked like the hole a drawing pin leaves in wood. He also dug around in the holes of the block stands for the puppets as they can be hidey places for insects, so get a stick or cotton bud or something and clean those out well before you pack.(I had also put all my wood and straw stuff in a box and sprayed it well the night before I packed, but he still checked it all). We knew not to bring back anything with banana leaf and thought we had checked our wood well! I got a great set of three temple baskets in dark and lighter brown weave, not decorated, that cost about 52,000 the lot, and by separating the tops from the bottoms and packing stuff inside them and around the gaps between the basket halves they really did not take up any additional space in my luggage. Another treat was a selection of wooden things for our walls..one had coat pegs and others are decorated wooden rails for hanging fabrics or paintings from. (They packaged the metre-long coat rack well with corrugated cardboard and I just carried it on the plane, tucking the wooden carved snake walking stick I got for 70,000 later on Jalan Legian with it). Was amused to see 7 foot high wooden giraffes there..all created so you can take them apart to carry them home in a case or whatever. Daughter worked out that they cost about $80 NZ each.