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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Bali, Under The Influence from Peak Travel.

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Social media has turned Bali’s shrines and temples into a playground for disrespectful tourists, but residents are fighting to preserve the island’s integrity. 

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0:17.0

A mesmerizing getaway, a holy sanctuary, a captivating culture.

0:24.0

Picture a woman in a long flowing red dress.

0:29.0

She's on a swing in Bali, Indonesia, overlooking miles of scenic rice paddies. This image has been in pre-flight movies, TV ads, and especially

0:40.1

across social media.

0:51.0

In person though, what this really looks like is crowds of tourists lining up to get the same picture.

0:54.0

Our producer Malika Anonk visited one of the most popular swing locations in a district called

0:59.6

Tagalog.

1:01.0

Woman came there to dig a woman can't

1:04.4

take their photos wearing very fully dress so that when they swing you can see

1:11.4

their dress blowing blowing into wind.

1:14.0

Westerners have considered Bali an exotic destination for nearly a century.

1:19.0

Tourism makes up more than half the islands economy

1:22.0

and social media has only accelerated this craze.

1:27.0

From the younger set of tourists who I talked to, they did tell me that most of their references came from

1:37.8

social media from either Instagram or Tik-Tock.

1:47.0

There are now more than a dozen rice patty swings to help you quote level up your IG game as one online article put it

1:50.0

with busloads of tourists waiting to stage the perfect video.

1:55.0

The speed is swing sites at the Galalang are seeing more visitors.

2:02.0

One area that I visited said that they had a thousand tourists coming in by noon.

2:08.0

But recently, other kinds of videos have started to appear.

2:17.0

A video of a German woman has gone viral. She last week ran around naked at a traditional dance ceremony,

2:22.0

try to force her way into a temple.

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