Bali News & Blog

Most of what gets written about Bali's environment this year has been about land: waste sorting bins, a new power plant, plastic bans. This one's about the water, and it's a bigger move than it might first sound. Speaking at the opening of World Ocean Day and Coral Triangle Day celebrations in Nusa Dua, Putu Sumardiana, head of the Bali Marine and Fisheries Agency, confirmed the province is working toward nearly doubling its protected marine waters. South Bali's existing conservation zone currently covers 55,000 hectares of coastline, and

Every family trip to Bali eventually hits the same wall: you've done the beach days, the pool days, maybe a rice terrace or a temple, and the kids are asking what's next. This year there's a genuinely new answer, and it's in Nusa Dua. Bali Ocean Park opened earlier in 2026 as the island's newest family attraction, a marine conservation complex built around education as much as entertainment. It's not a generic aquarium bolted onto a gift shop. The centerpiece is a kid-friendly lagoon where children can get

We wrote a while back that Bali was talking about asking tourists to prove they could actually afford their trip, and at the time, it really was just talk: no fixed number, no confirmed rule, just a policy idea floating around Bali's government. That's changed. There's a number now, and it's specific enough to actually plan around. Bali's Governor, Wayan Koster, has confirmed that under a new framework called the Regional Regulation on the Implementation of Quality Tourism, applicants for a 60-day Visit Visa (C1) may need to

You've seen the photo a hundred times before you ever set foot in Bali: emerald rice terraces cascading down a hillside near Ubud, one perfect swing hanging over the edge. Tegalalang is that photo. It's also, right now, one of the clearest examples of what happens when a quiet farming village becomes one of the most photographed places on the internet. The terraces are genuinely struggling. Heavy foot traffic is accelerating soil erosion on slopes that were never built to carry this many visitors, and the traditional Subak

A running club doesn't sound like the kind of thing that gets two foreigners banned from an entire country. But that's exactly what happened in Bali this week, and the story is worth knowing if you're planning any kind of long stay on the island, not just a two-week holiday. On July 23, 2026, two Dutch nationals linked to a Seminyak-based running club called Entourage Bali left the island on a KLM flight to Singapore, just ahead of an immigration investigation catching up with them. Indonesia has since