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| 🌍 Region | Asia | |
| 🚩 Country | Indonesia | |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 5 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps | |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 29°C 84°F + Humid (81%) = feels 35°C 95°F | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 25 US AQI 🍃 good | |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |
| 🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | ||
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Telkomsel | |
| 💸 100,000 IDR in USD | USD 6.88 | |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | IDR 1,000,000 = USD 69 | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Caffe Bene | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |
| ♻️ Return rate | 13% of visitors return | |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 6,238,300 visitors | |
| 📸 Tourists now | 119,557 tourists | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 120,000 people | |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 12x12m (144m²) per person | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious | |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Tokopedia | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Lion | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Garuda | |
| 🏥 Best hospital | BIMC Hospital | |
Skimming of bank cards is rampant in Bali ATM's, only use ATMs inside bank offices. Watch out for cheap fake alcohol (like Absolut) being served which may be mixed with methanol and be poisonous. Bintang beer is generally okay. | ||
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,024 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $549 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,169 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $334 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $206 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $206 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $375 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $18 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
We're looking for a country in South East Asia that can function as our base, mainly for tax purposes. Meaning it will have to be a place where we can stay for the 183 days required without too much hassle.
We've been looking at Thailand, but have heard that it's very hard to do visa runs etc., so what other can you recommend? Indonesia looked like a good option, but the income rate is a flat 20% and very high for the region.
Hi ,
I will be staying in Canggu for approx. 3 weeks but still I havent found the place to stay yet.
I will be arriving on 5/19 and thinking of doing house search for first few days in Canggu.
If you know any good place around Canggu for short housing I would appreciate your advice!
Its my first time being nomad worker and any suggestion would appreciate.
Thank you!
Tetsushi
Best to book an Airbnb for first 2/3 nights, then drive around and find a place yourself. Many apartments have a VACANT sign. Although renting 3 weeks is quite short.
Thank you very much for your advice!
I wanted to stay longer but I have no clue of how this turns out and it may possible that i need to go back ;_;
What are the vaccinations I should get traveling from US to Indonesia? I read the CDC suggstions, but I’m curious on more anecdotal knowledge from experienced travelers to Indonesia.
I’d say Hep A & B and tetanus were essential anywhere in Asia. There is now a vaccine for Dengue fever, available in Indonesia & worth considering.
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dengue_fever#Vaccine
I lived in Ubud for over a year and got no vaccines except Hep A and tetanus.
I got bitten by a dog there, very severe bite. It was my friend’s dog, so I knew it wasn’t rabid, however, no hospital would admit me for treatment until I got a rabies vaccine.
They run out of rabies vaccines on the island at times, but luckily they had it. I needed 3-4 in a row for possible post-exposure. I didn’t want to get it, but i had to.
Really depends on when and where you’re planning to go in Indonesia.
IMHO, the CDC and Travel Health clinic suggestions tend to be over cautious for most travelers. I think they’re written as if everyone is going to do aid work in some far off jungle village.
Routine + Hepatitis A & B + Typhoid and you’re good almost everywhere globally…
Note: the reason to get Hep B, is because if you end up in a local hospital (this is a a risk globally), plus it’s cheap and free of major side effects.
Japanese Encephalitis - Not unless you’re going somewhere rural where to JE is actively prevalent (ie. somewhere very rural…) .
Regardless of JE, take precautions against mosquitos… because there is also Dengue & Malaria…
However personally… forums are the last source I would trust on this topic… go talk to an actual doctor 
Oh… and I wouldn’t do Rabies vaccine personally, but in Bali, there is a reasonable risk of Rabies from dogs and MONKEYS…
Just be aware that the rabies vaccine isn’t preventative, it just makes treatment for a possible infection easier/less severe. That’s why it’s great if you’re somewhere rural and can’t quickly get to treatment… but if you’re in Bali where you can get to a major hospital and start treatment in an hour it’s not really needed.
Oh… and I heard something about a newer JE vaccine, but as of a year or two ago, I think it was only available in Indonesia and only being given to children… but that’s why you should talk to an actual travel medicine doctor… these things do change over time.
If you’re thinking about heading to Bali, definitely get the rabies vaccine. The island has a rabies problem, there are a lot of aggressive stray dogs, and the island isn’t well equipped to deal with it.
Hello, is there anybody around with experience with “Adobe Connect” meetings?
We are thinking to move to Bali - Canggu or Ubud, however our business demands working with this Adobe platform. Our concern is if latency is good enough and connection stable to do the teaching job from Bali to European located Adobe Connect servers.
Thanks so much fore any hint on this.
You can test the connection quality with Adobe Connect from your location to different servers worldwide from this page - for Europe there is a UK-based server listed to test:
Thanks again!
Gunter
No experience with adobe connect, but I ran the test from the UK server, these are the results
it says LAN speed and:
BW Test Results: up=2382.9 kbit/s, latency=28 msec, down=605.2 kbit/s
This is from Canggu btw.
Hi,
How much should I expect to pay for scooter hire in Ubud?
Thanks,
James
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
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✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many members right now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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