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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly: Drilling II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Macdonald who wrote (20200)	10/13/2002 1:31:21 AM
From: gold$10k	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36161

Hi Charles, The Balinese people are so sweet-natured that it's sometimes hard to believe. Even their persistence in trying to sell to tourists is done in a very gentle way. The only negative that I have experienced was on a day trip to Singaraja, which is Bali's 2nd largest city. I had noticed that more people there were in Muslim dress and took a photo of a mosque. Eventually I found the open-air market which was hidden behind the main streets and it felt like a quick trip in the wayback machine to a time a century earlier. While looking at a display of baseball caps, an old woman in Muslim dress came up to show me a baseball cap that had a picture of Usama Bin Laden on it and saying "Bagus! Bagus!" (Good! Good!) to me. Although I have never felt unsafe in Bali (except for an uneasy feeling today), that experience convinced me that I was right to not go elsewhere in Indonesia where it is Muslim rather than Hindu as Bali is. But despite these attempts at safety, here is today's terrorist attack in Bali. In addition to everything else, it is a shame for the Balinese who have come to depend on tourist money, as tourism here will certainly suffer. Regards, vt