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Bali

Posted by matchman | 2nd December 2008

Once again I did very little homework before flying to Bali, in hindsight not a smart move. Upon arrival at the airport I was asked for a donation of 250,000 rupees, of which I had none, and in fact I didn't have any cash of any currency which caused a few problems. I had to queue up at one of the immigration counters behind the air crew, leave my passport with the guy, go through security and then get some money out at the ATM. The first one didn't work - oh dear - but the other one did and then I had to make the tricky decision of how many rupees to draw out - I hadn't even checked to see what the exchange rate was. I went for the max, one million rupees (sounds a lot), and then made my way back to join the longest queue in the world for a temporary visa. Eventually I got through, grabbed my bag, and then lost it again as a couple of guys at the security desk took it off me. But no, they weren't security at all, just randoms in shirts who carried my bag no further than 10

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