柏林·威廉姆斯(Gisela Williams)说,巴厘岛是“所有关于乌托邦和伟大的美丽与文化的话题”的地方,”柏林旅行作家吉赛拉·威廉姆斯(Gisela Williams)说,他自90年代以来一直访问该岛。 “是巴厘岛印度教文化创造了这个地方的神话。”在过去的十年中,该岛的旅游业飙升,从2014年的380万游客到去年的630万。今年看起来将是一名破纪录的人:该岛似乎可以欢迎超过700万外国游客。今天的巴厘岛不是独特的传统或田园诗,而是以其海滩俱乐部和冲浪房屋而闻名。与印度尼西亚其他地区相比,酒精很容易获得,而且衣服稀少。大多数游客还希望将自己沉浸在巴厘岛的豪华酒店,别墅和水疗中心。威廉姆斯女士说:“您有很多西方人真正利用豪华生活方式的负担能力。” “由于社交媒体接管了,这是一种理解一个地方的非常肤浅的方式……您只会看到一张照片,然后就走了。”佐伊·雷(Zoe Rae)对她在巴厘岛遇到的现实的幻想破灭,揭示了许多休闲旅行者所拥有的理想形象。居住在巴厘岛的英国内容创作者霍利·玛丽(Hollie Marie)在回应雷先生的帖子时,他在蒂克托克(Tiktok)的视频中警告说:“只有在Instagram上查找巴厘岛,才会使您成为岛上本身的扭曲现实”。玛丽女士对英国广播公司(BBC)表示:“巴厘岛的问题是人们来这里,只留在某些地区,因为他们想看可爱的咖啡馆,访问Instagramable的地方。他们错过了巴厘岛是一个非常文化的岛屿的事实。”那些住在那里或探索过明显出现的人会告诉您巴厘岛的自然美景还活着,从海豚观看和潜水探索到宁静的北部郁郁葱葱的景观。坎尼·克劳迪亚(Canny Claudya)说,该岛比游客倾向于参观的“聚会场所”要多得多。 “如果您认为巴厘岛人满为患,那么您就不在正确的地方。”尽管如此,当地人说,他们的岛屿肯定在旅游业的需求下发生了变化。当他们听到抱怨这不是天堂旅行者报名的投诉时,有人指出,这种评论引起了讽刺意味。印度尼西亚著名的热带天堂巴厘岛(Bali Bali)多年来吸引了许多游客。但这也使越来越多的幻灭了 - 最近的佐伊·雷(Zoe Rae)。她在7月在她的酒店房间拍摄的YouTube视频中说:“自从降落在巴厘岛以来,对我们来说,对我们来说并不完全正确。” “我们以很高的期望来到巴厘岛,因为我们在社交媒体上看到每个人都有如此愉快的时光。”她补充说:“如果您拍了一张咖啡店的照片并放大了,您将看到现实是什么。”雷女士没有描述她所看到的现实 - 也没有回答英国广播公司的问题。但这令人不安,可以使她的书成为前往迪拜的即兴飞行,继续在那里庆祝她的结婚纪念日。一个人不需要寻找线索。社交媒体关于巴厘岛“期望与现实”的文章比比皆是。食客在一家海滩餐厅享受日落 - 以及摇摇欲坠的楼梯上的垃圾到达那里。穿着比基尼的穿着姿势在瀑布面前,而一群游客等着轮到湿滑的岩石。 Alfresco冰沙和竹吸管,就在烟火堵塞的道路上。每年,数以百万计的人涌向巴厘岛,以寻找在Noughties回忆录和电影饮食,祈祷,爱情中承诺的精神香格里拉。相反,他们向他们致意的是人群,交通和建筑的刺耳声,这与旅游后的大流行繁荣相处。岛上日益增长的压力引起了很多眼动和抱怨,但本月的事件发生了一段阴暗的转变。在岛上的罕见洪水中,有十多个人死亡。官员们说,废物管理不良和未经检查的城市发展使情况恶化。此后,地方政府宣布将限制新建筑。但是,许多人认为这种干预措施太少了,为时已晚。几十年来,巴厘岛是如何庆祝的“最后一个天堂”的?自20世纪初以来,西方冒险家就一直在巴厘岛出现,当时它被视为异国情调的后水,是印度教寺庙和稻田的所在地。灵性和对自然的崇敬深深地:猴子,牛和鸟类带有神圣的进口,大型古老的树木被认为是众所周知的,而受欢迎的徒步旅行火山山batur被认为受到女神的保护。“当游客说他们对巴厘岛更加拥挤感到失望时,他们也是人群的一部分,”我做了维坎南达(Vikannanda),他是一名巴厘岛研究员,他主张保护岛上的性质和人民。 “就像我们在流量时一样,我们就像'为什么流量这么多?'但是我们在汽车上。 22岁的Ni Kadek Sintya回想起她曾经乘坐踏板车穿过坎盖(Canggu)的宽松道路,经过帕迪田(Paddy Fields),她会在那里度过午餐。五年后,坎格(Canggu)在岛上的交通最差。 Sintya女士在健康度假胜地的工作之旅中衬有别墅和咖啡馆,不耐烦的鸣叫一直跟着她。她说:“我不会打扰停下来,更不用说在那里休息了。” “现在,每当我经过那个曾经坐在]的地方时,就会有这种悲伤的感觉。我觉得巴厘岛每天都在侵蚀。”随着旅游业的上升,酒店,咖啡馆和酒吧一直从岛上拥挤的南部散发出来。最新的时髦目的地是Canggu,这是一个曾经昏昏欲睡的渔村,已成为世界各地冲浪者的磁铁。 Canggu跟随其他社区的脚步,从乌鲁瓦图(Uluwatu)到塞米亚克(Seminyak),随着游客寻找新的“隐藏宝石”的转变,他们变了沉默。这种迁移的咖啡馆,健身房和同事空间沿着狭窄的乡村道路弹出。北部的Pererenan现在被誉为更悠闲的坎ggu。在北部,在乌布(Ubud)的森林中,度假胜地是逃避南方喧嚣的庇护所。玛丽女士说:“有一个真正的捕获22。” “一方面,鼓励人们参观不同的地区总是一件好事……但是我认为这也有危险,因为这会鼓励人们在任何地方和任何地方建造。”另外,她补充说:“人们对巴厘岛的对待就像一个游乐场”。几乎没有一个月的时间没有表现不佳的游客成为头条新闻:骑踏板车醉酒或没有头盔后,他们陷入了严重的事故;外国人因在神圣地点赤裸裸而被驱逐出境。其他人因醉酒的斗殴遇到了麻烦。逃离战争后,成千上万的俄罗斯人和乌克兰人加剧了最近的紧张局势。印度尼西亚国家麻醉品局负责人最近警告说,俄罗斯人和乌克兰人在巴厘岛从事犯罪活动的日益严重。当地的怨恨正在上升,社交媒体警惕性使行为不端的游客爆炸 - 即使巴厘岛人保持了举世闻名的热情好客。 Sintya女士说:“很多游客之所以认为,因为他们是那些在我们岛上花钱的人,我们当地人应该对他们做的一切。”她说:“感觉就像我被困住了,因为我们生活在旅游业上。因此,如果我们停止旅游业,我们将继续生存什么?”尽管旅游业的“不受控制的增长”,研究人员维坎南达先生认为“巴厘岛的发展和自然和谐仍然可以保持”。 “我仍然很乐观。尤其是年轻人的参与。”实际上,企业和激进主义者已经开始了基础,以鼓励从废物管理教育到海滩清理的可持续发展。受到批评的当局不对旅游业的监管,他也在试图清理该岛。今年早些时候,巴厘岛禁止了一次性塑料,并为游客发布了行为准则,以“确保巴厘岛的旅游业保持尊重,可持续性并与我们的当地价值观保持一致”。警方已被部署到受欢迎的地区,以确保访客遵守规则。 《金融时报》 HTSI杂志的旅行编辑玛丽亚·肖伦巴格(Maria Shollenbarger)告诉英国广播公司:“印尼政府已经了解到,巴厘岛也是一项自然资产,不仅是一个被利用的旅游市场。”她说:“巴厘岛是一种坩埚。 “但是,无论您在世界上去哪里,我认为人们要记住,旅行者有责任与目的地负责任。”华江大峡谷桥塔62.5m(2,083英尺)上方,该国吉州省的峡谷上方。该枢纽在布莱顿I360的礼品店内,提供了有关游客的旅行和活动的信息。普通公民,特别是部落的公民承担着他们没有开始的冲突的最重负担。哈吉特·考尔(Harjit Kaur)在美国居住了30多年,然后被驱逐到印度。据信,现年23岁的哈里森·康托纳斯(Harrison Kontounas)在游泳时被ripti脚拉在水下。
Instagram vs reality: Bali is becoming a victim of its own success
Bali, Indonesia's famed tropical paradise, has charmed plenty of tourists over the years. But it's also leaving a growing number disillusioned - recently among them Zoe Rae. "Since landing in Bali, something for us has just not felt quite right," she said in a YouTube video in July, filmed in her hotel room. "We came to Bali with high expectations because we'd seen on social media everyone having such a lovely time." She added: "If you took a picture of the coffee shop and zoomed out, you would see what the reality was." Ms Rae did not describe the reality she saw - nor reply to the BBC's questions. But it was unsettling enough to make her book an impromptu flight to Dubai to continue celebrating her wedding anniversary there instead. One does not need to look far for clues. Social media posts about "expectations vs reality" in Bali abound. Diners enjoying the sunset at a beach-side restaurant - and the piles of rubbish along the rickety stairs to get there. The bikini-clad pose in front of a waterfall, while a snaking line of tourists await their turn on slippery rocks. The alfresco smoothies with bamboo straws, right beside soot-puffing motorcycles stuck on jammed roads. Millions flock to Bali every year in search of the spiritual Shangri-La promised in the noughties memoir and film Eat, Pray, Love. What they're greeted by instead are crowds, traffic and the cacophony of construction, which has ramped up alongside a post-pandemic boom in tourism. The growing strain on the island had produced plenty of eye-rolls and grumbles, but this month events took a sombre turn. More than a dozen people died in rare floods on the island. Poor waste management and unchecked urban development had worsened the situation, officials said. The local government has since announced it will restrict new construction. But many see such interventions as too little, too late. How did Bali, celebrated for decades as the "last paradise", get to this point? Western adventurers have been turning up in Bali since the early 20th Century, when it was seen as an exotic backwater, home to Hindu temples and rice fields. Spirituality and a reverence for nature run deep: monkeys, cows and birds carry sacred import, large ancient trees are thought to house spirits, and the popular trekking volcano Mount Batur is believed to be protected by a goddess. Bali was "one of the first places that there was all this talk of utopia and great beauty and culture," says Gisela Williams, a Berlin-based travel writer who has been visiting the island since the '90s. "It's the Balinese Hindu culture that has created this myth of the place." Over the past decade, tourism to the island has skyrocketed, from 3.8 million visitors in 2014 to to 6.3 million last year. This year looks set to be a record-breaker: the island appears on track to welcome more than seven million foreign tourists. Rather than unique traditions or idyll, Bali today is better known for its beach clubs and surf houses. Alcohol is easily available and scanty clothing is more acceptable compared to the rest of Indonesia. And most visitors also want to immerse themselves in Bali's luxe hotels, villas and spas. "You have a lot of Westerners who are really taking advantage of the affordability of a luxury lifestyle," Ms Williams says. "Since social media has taken over, it's a very superficial way of understanding a place… You just see a picture, and then you go." Zoe Rae's disillusionment with the reality she encountered in Bali exposes the idealised image held by many casual travellers. Responding to Mr Rae's post, Hollie Marie, a British content creator living in Bali, warned in a TikTok video that "only looking up Bali on Instagram will give you a distorted reality of the island itself". "The problem with Bali is people come here and only stay in certain areas because they want to see cute cafes, visit Instagrammable places. And they miss out on the fact that Bali is a very culturally rich island," Ms Marie tells the BBC. Those who live there, or have explored beyond the obvious haunts, will tell you Bali's natural beauty is alive and well, from dolphin-watching and dive explorations, to the lush landscape in the quieter north. The island is "much, much more" than the "party places" that tourists tend to visit, says Canny Claudya, who moved to Bali from Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. "If you think that Bali is overcrowded, then you're just not in the right places." Still, locals say their island has certainly changed under the demands of tourism. And when they hear of complaints that this is not the paradise travellers signed up for, some point out that such comments are dripping with irony. "When tourists said they are disappointed with Bali being more crowded, they are also part of the crowd," says I Made Vikannanda, a Balinese researcher who advocates for the protection of the island's nature and people. "It's like when we're in traffic, we're like 'Why is there so much traffic?' But we're in a car. We're the ones driving the car, we're the ones making the traffic," he said. Twenty-two-year-old Ni Kadek Sintya recalls a time when she used to ride her scooter through the quiet roads of Canggu, past paddy fields where she would take a lunch break. Five years on, Canggu has some of the worst traffic on the island. And Ms Sintya's journey to her job in a wellness resort is lined with villas and cafes, and impatient honks follow her all the way. "I wouldn't bother stopping, let alone rest there," she said. "Now every time I ride past that spot I used to sit [at], there's this feeling of sadness. I feel that Bali is being eroded day by day." As tourism rises, hotels, cafes and bars have been fanning out from the island's congested south. The latest hipster destination is Canggu, a once sleepy fishing village that has become a magnet for surfers from around the world. Canggu follows in the footsteps of other neighbourhoods, from Uluwatu to Seminyak, quiet backwaters that have transformed as tourists search for new "hidden gems". This migration has seen trendy cafes, gyms and co-working spaces pop up along narrow rural roads. Pererenan, to the north, is now being hailed as a more laid-back Canggu. Further north, in the forests of Ubud, resorts are marketing themselves as a sanctuary to escape the bustle of the south. "There's a real catch-22," Ms Marie says. "On one hand, it's always a good thing to encourage people to visit different areas… But I think there's a danger to that as well, because that will encourage people to build everywhere and anywhere." Plus, she adds, "people treat Bali a bit like a playground". Barely a month goes by without misbehaving tourists making headlines: they have been in serious accidents after riding scooters intoxicated or without helmets; foreigners were deported for getting naked at sacred sites; others got in trouble for drunken brawls. Adding to recent tensions are thousands of Russians and Ukrainians who have been settling down in Bali after fleeing the war. The head of Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency recently warned of a growing problem with Russians and Ukrainians engaging in criminal activities in Bali. Local resentment is rising, with social media vigilantes putting misbehaving tourists on blast - even as the Balinese maintain their world-famous hospitality. "A lot of tourists think because they're the ones with money to spend on our island, we locals should be OK with whatever they do," says Ms Sintya, who like many of her generation have come to rely on the stability of a career in tourism. "It can feel like I'm being trapped," she says, "because we live on tourism. So if we stop tourism, what will we survive on?" Despite the "uncontrolled growth" of tourism, Mr Vikannanda, the researcher, thinks the "development of Bali and the harmony of nature can still be maintained". "I'm still optimistic. Especially with the participation of young people." Indeed, businesses and activists have launched ground-up efforts to encourage sustainable development, from waste management education to beach clean-ups. Authorities, who have been criticised for not regulating tourism enough, are also trying to clean up the island. Earlier this year, Bali banned single-use plastics and issued behaviour guidelines for visitors to "ensure that Bali's tourism remains respectful, sustainable, and in harmony with our local values". Police have been deployed to popular areas to make sure visitors follow rules. "The Indonesian government has come to understand that Bali is also a natural asset, it's not just a tourist market to be exploited," Maria Shollenbarger, travel editor at the Financial Times' HTSI magazine, tells the BBC. "Bali is a crucible in a lot of ways of overtourism," she says. "But no matter where you're going in the world, I think it's important for people to remember that it's incumbent on you, the traveller, to engage responsibly with the destination." The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625m (2,083ft) above a gorge in the country's Guizhou province. The hub, inside the gift shop at Brighton i360, has information on travel and events for tourists. Ordinary citizens, particularly tribespeople, bear the heaviest burden of a conflict they didn't start. Harjit Kaur had lived in the US for over 30 years before being deported to India. Harrison Kontounas, 23, is believed to have been pulled under water by a riptide while swimming.
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