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Bali

Bali
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About Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island and province and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most populous city in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second-largest, after Makassar, in Eastern Indonesia. The Denpasar metropolitan area is the extended metropolitan area around Denpasar. The upland town of Ubud in Greater Denpasar is considered as Bali's cultural centre. The province is Indonesia's main tourist destination, with a significant rise in tourism since the 1980s, and has become the country's area of overtourism. Tourism-related business makes up 80% of the Bali economy.

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It was a snake called Bali, a python, reticulated python, which is, I think, the longest kind in the world. Bali at the time was reputed to be the biggest snake in Europe.

from No Such Thing As A Ping Pong Ballbag, 2021-06-25 at 00:11:31 · read transcript

Other times Bali came up

  1. It's called Alfredi oh that's cool is he named after Batman's Butler that's right yes no it's named after Queen Victoria's son Alfred who was the first British royal to visit Australia so they were so excited about getting a proper royal over that they named a mantra after him. We actually got an email about this a couple of weeks ago from a guy called Rich Horner who works out in Bali at the exact spot where they were doing all of these tests. Do you mean he works out in Bali or he works out in Bali? He works out in Bali and between Jim Sessions he wrote us an email.

    No Such Thing As A Manta Ray, 2017-07-21 · listen

  2. He was in America, and he did it on a beach way first met his girlfriend. and he opened this avocado, there's a ring inside, and he said, it just happened that a professional photographer was nearby who happened to be shooting something else, and we got in the way, so we've got this beautiful photo of it, and it is a really beautiful photo of him doing it, and he said he put the ring in cling film because no one wants a ring that's covered in avocado. Maybe no one wants a ring that's presented within an avocado, but they interviewed him, and then they interviewed a guy from Stanford in Lincolnshire called Ben Stevenson, and he wanted to do the same thing. He had to postpone it at first, because his girlfriend got really ill in Bali. Then when she wasn't really recovered fully, he proposed her on a beach.

    No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie, 2018-05-18 · listen

  3. She'd flown all the way from Dubai with this thing on her head. It was a very endangered species. They took it off her and sent it to a safe house and eventually sent it back, I spoke. There's an Australian guy who once smuggled a snake in his underpants to Bali on a plane in the early days. On wearing odd things on your head. I wouldn't put a snake in my pants.

    107: No Such Thing As Gorillas On The Beach, 2016-04-01 · listen

  4. Is he named after Batman's Butler that's right yes no it's named after Queen Victoria's son Alfred who was the first British royal to visit Australia so they were so excited about getting a proper royal over that they named a mantra after him. We actually got an email about this a couple of weeks ago from a guy called Rich Horner who works out in Bali at the exact spot where they were doing all of these tests. Do you mean he works out in Bali or he works out in Bali? He works out in Bali and between Jim Sessions he wrote us an email.

    No Such Thing As A Manta Ray, 2017-07-21 · listen

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