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	Kuta vs Seminyak Part 2
	Kuta took a long time to recover from the devastating night of October 2002. By the end of 2003, even with SARS and The Iraq War affecting the number of visitors to Bali...read on

	Padi Packs Kamasutra
	19 January and Kamasutra once again provided the perfect arena for one of Indonesia’s legendary rock music outfits to again prove their credentials....read on

	Bali Is The Place Where...
	An intensively relaxing and therapeutic massage costs as little as a lunch out; You can turn off a hectic main road into a small gang and all of sudden be in a natural world surrounded by rice paddies and bamboo,...read on

	The Year Of The Dog
	Chinese New Year in 2006 is the Year of the Fire Dog. Like the houses of the zodiac, the animals of Chinese astrology are said to influence your luck during the year, ...read on

Kuta vs Seminyak Part 2

Kuta took a long time to recover from the devastating night of October 2002. By the end of 2003, even with SARS and The Iraq War affecting the number of visitors to Bali, Seminyak had conclusively snatched the glory in the Bali nightlife. Kuta was continuing to languish a year later, while the bars in Seminyak were doing record numbers.
Spy Bar, which was already a hit before the bomb, was doing better numbers every month from November 2002 through 2003 and the rest of Dhyana Pura was not lagging too far behind. The owners of Spy mentioned, at the time, that they did better figures in the November than August of 2002, which is normally totally unheard of, and the whole street was on, what seemed, an inexhaustible roll, expanding and developing at an incredible pace for almost two years.

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