Today Bali ends a 10 day Holiday Period with the Sacred Day Of Kuningan

All of us at PT. Bali Affordable Lifestyles International and PT. Bali Luxury Villas wish all Hindus throughout Indonesia and Bali a very Happy Kuningan.

Editors Note: Every day is a holiday in Bali

As I have said many times before "Every day is a holiday in Bali" not only for the tourists but also the Locals.  

Over the past ten days, Hindus throughout Indonesia & Bali celebrated the scared 10 day holiday period of Galungan and Kuningan.




It occurs once in the 210-day cycle of the Balinese calendar and marks the time of the year when the spirits of the ancestors are believed to visit the earth. 


Balinese Hindus perform rituals that are meant to welcome and entertain these returning spirits.

Over the past ten days house compounds that make up the nucleus of Balinese society came alive with devotions offered by the families living within. Families offer bountiful sacrifices of food and flowers to the ancestral spirits, expressing gratitude and hopes for protection. 


These sacrifices are also offered at local temples, which are packed with devotees bringing their offerings.

The whole island sprouted tall bamboo poles called "penjor" - these are usually decorated with fruit, coconut leaves, and flowers, and set up on the right of every residence entrance. 

Today Sat. Feb 29th. The tenth day after Galungan - "Kuningan" - marks the end of Galungan, and is believed to be the day when the spirits ascend back to heaven. On this day, Balinese make special offerings of yellow rice.

Ngelawang: During Galungan, a ceremony known as Ngelawang is performed in the villages. Ngelawang is an exorcism ceremony performed by a "barong" - a divine protector in the form of a mythical beast.

The barong is invited into houses as he makes his way through the village. His presence is meant to restore the balance of good and evil in a house. 

The residents of the house will pray before the dancing barong, who will afterward give a piece of his fur as a keepsake.

After the barong pays a visit, it is important to make an offering of a canang sari containing money.

A Treat for the Senses:

While the actual festivities are open to Balinese only, tourists who visit Bali during this holiday get an eyeful of the local color.

It isn't every day you see richly-dressed women crossing the street to make food offerings to the local temple - and there's something festive about the penjor swaying in the wind everywhere you look! 

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All our villas offer a private pool, fully equipped kitchen and come staffed with housekeeper, gardener, pool attendant and 24-hour security. 

• The villas are situated in a complex that empathizes privacy and elegance. 
• All of them are specially created to add to your wonderful time in Bali, through the warm air, six-kilometer white sand beach, and unique Bali culture. 
• Each Villa is air-conditioned and features a  flat-screen TV with cable TV, DVD-Player and a HiFi system. Free WiFi is available on the property.

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The information is available on our website:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE LOCATION

3. DESIGN & COSTS

4. PROFIT & INCOME

5. TERMS & CONDITIONS

6. BALI INFORMATION

7. RETIREMENT VISA

Features of© Bali Luxury Retirement Villas starting as low as * $184,888

• 100% legal for foreigners.

• Includes leases totaling 80 yrs.

• Private carport included.

• Private 8 m (27 Ft.) pool** for leisurely laps.

• Only 200 Mtr. To a fabulous beach, restaurants, beach clubs.

• Great investment for you and your heirs.

• Private Housekeepers & drivers, only $200 MTh.

• Healthcare at a fraction of Western costs.

• Brand-new hospital within five minutes.

• Award-winning international Airport 35 min.

• Proximity to Sanur, Ubud, Denpasar.

• Walking distance to affordable restaurants and beach clubs

• Shared low costs of pool man and gardeners.

• Minuscule monthly common area fees.

• Managed by 15-year-old, Hall of Fame award-winning management company

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• **Eight-meter first-class swimming pool Only U.S.D. $28,888 Extra

Developed and managed by 14-year-old Hall of Fame award-winning Bali company

Our 14-year-old Bali company Pt. Bali Affordable Lifestyles International (PT. B.A.L.I.) with over 100 + staff and thousands of satisfied clients guarantee completion of any villas purchased now in 2020. 

We are a Ten-Year Consecutive “Certificate of Excellence” recipient on the Worlds Largest Travel Site and was awarded their "Hall of Fame Award", in 2019. This is awarded to only 2 % of the Hotels & Villas listed on TripAdvisor Worldwide"

Conclusion:

These villas offer you an opportunity to own a luxury home on arguably the Best Island in the world with some of the greatest weather, lowest cost of living, clean air, and friendliest people.

Profit Now Move in Later:

You may not be ready to pack up and move to Bali in the next few years.

So, you may purchase now at these ridiculously low prices and we can normally rent them out for you for a monthly income of $1,500 to $2,000 U.S.D. per month. 

Our 15-year-old “Hall of Fame” the award-winning management company that manages villas for V.I.P.s such as the former director of General Electric and Ritz Carlton can provide substantial net monthly income to supplement your pension while providing a carefree rental unit. 

Confused? We understand that you may have concerns that we may not have even thought of, so feel free to ask whatever questions you wish.

We do not want you to even think about purchasing our © Bali Luxury Retirement Villas unless you are 100% convinced that they are safe, and perfect for you and your family.

Limited Offer: Save $10,000:

As with any new project we are anxious to sell the first few villas.

We have one already on hold and are only willing to offer one other villa at a $10,000 discount. First come first serve.

Free Stay in Luxury Estate:

If you wish to fly over and see the location first after you place a USD 2,000 Deposit we will offer you free accommodations in a 4 bdrm. 5 bath luxury beach view estate with a private 14 m pool for three days within walking distance of the location.

When you decide to conclude the purchase, we will extend the free estate accommodation for an additional four days.

Should you decide not to continue with the purchase we will refund your $2,000 Deposit minus $200.00 for the three-day stay.

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to review this information and information on the website. If there is any further information we can provide you please do not hesitate to ask.

Cheers, THE SALES TEAM © Bali Luxury Retirement Villas

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Feel free to contact me directly for a free private consultation at my office in Sanur.

Lawrence B.M.B, Owner, President, Director

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About the Speaker Lawrence. Is the Owner, President and General Manager of 14-year-old Pt. Bali Affordable Lifestyles International (PT. B.A.L.I.). Doing Business as Best Asia Real Estate. 

His spouse and partner Azizah, is a fully licensed Indonesian Notaris with a master’s degree in Indonesian Law specializing in real estate, corporate and Foreign Marital documentation. 

Together they and their 100 + professional staff provide a one-stop professional, efficient location for Buying, Selling, Leasing and Renting Asian Real Estate.

They manage  Best Asia Real Estate,  PT. Bali Luxury Villas with rentals starting at $99  ++ per room per night & Bali Luxury Villa Sales Starting at $158,000, plus Bali Paradise Beach Estates rentals starting at $128.00 ++ per night and Estate sales starting at $350,000. plus Bali Luxury Retirement Villas starting at #198,888 .      

"Recipients Hall of Fame Award, awarded to only 2 % of the Hotels listed on TripAdvisor Worldwide"
They are a Ten-time Consecutive Certificate of Excellence recipient on the World's Largest Travel Site. This places them among the top 10 % of hotels and villas listed by Tripadvisor worldwide.

Lawrence is also one of Asia’s best-known travel and real estate investment experts. They publish the daily Bali & World News & Views Blog which combined with Bali News and Views Blog has had almost 1,500,000 pageviews. They also publish the Best Asia Real Estate Blog, Facebook, and Twitter posts. He offers free real estate seminars throughout Asia every quarter. For Free Seminar schedule email to seminarsptbali@gmail.com 

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First two mth. Report & Outlook for Indonesia, Bali, Australia hotels and luxury villas as coronavirus goes pandemic.

Bali + World News and Views Editor's Comments:

Lawrence at his Head Office of
PT. Bali Affordable Lifestyles International

 I am not only the editor of this blog I am also the Owner, President and Director of Tripadvisor Hall of Fame winning PT. Bali Affordable Lifestyles International who manages over 100 staff including PT. Bali Luxury Villas one of Bali's oldest and most successful Villa Complex Hotels.

"Ignorance creates fear".

A saying that I came up with many years ago that I always share is that "ignorance creates fear".

Ignorance is defined in the dictionary as "a lack of knowledge or information".

When people are ignorant of coronavirus, which is the worst health crisis to face mankind in over 100 years, they become fearful and often make the wrong decisions.

This is why I decided to publish a rare monthly report to all our PT. Bali Luxury Villas, owners, staff and the public as follows.

_________________________________________________________ 

Bali Luxury Villa Owners Update: 

2020-02-28

Re-coronavirus COVID-19 update:

Dear Bali Luxury Villa Owner,

No doubt you are all concerned about daily negative news on the worldwide pandemic, commonly known as coronavirus recently renamed COVID-19 now affecting most of the world. 

As of today 56 countries are infected.

No official reports of infections in Indonesia

There are no official reports of infections in Indonesia as of today.

I am more concerned than most, first and foremost for the safety of my family and equally important my staff, our guests and you, the villa owner.

I assume you're also very concerned about the effect of coronavirus on your villa rentals. 

It has now been six weeks since we received the first report from China that there were 45 people infected with two confirmed deaths.

In the first week or two, the confirmed cases in China were rising so fast that there was talk of a pandemic similar to the Spanish flu. 

The Spanish flu infected 500 million people around the world,[2] or about 27% of the then world population of between including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been 40 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million.

Coronavirus fears caused a huge drop in Bali hotel occupancies:

At a "Skal Bali" hotel managers meeting three weeks ago I heard some pretty disturbing news from many of my fellow hoteliers. They said their occupancies dropped by 40% to 50%. 

One hotel, just a few kilometers from our PT. Bali Luxury Villas, which is normally 70% full this time of the year reported only a 16% occupancy. 

PT. Bali Luxury Villas Beats the Odds and does Better than last Year:
The good news which I just received today based on our occupancies for this month and no cancellations for tomorrow is that our occupancies for PT. Bali Luxury Villas that we manage and rent through my company enjoyed a 9% increase over last year.

For the year to date during all the horrific news, we managed a 1% increase over last year. 

Yes I know it sounds too good to be true. I asked my staff to double-check the numbers and it's true.

One theory is that many families who were visiting here, especially from China, have decided to stay.

 Over 600 Chinese Families Extend their stay:

Immigration reports that over 600 Chinese families have requested and received free visa extensions to stay here.

 It's not hard to understand this when the choice for parents is to go back to China putting themselves and their family at risk where they may be locked up in their apartment building versus staying here and enjoying your luxury villa it’s a no brainer. 

If you want to stay in Bali with a family of four or more it is much easier to stay in a private villa with a private maid in a large 400 m² area where your children can play in your private swimming pool.

It's also much safer because you do not have to eat from buffet lines that others may have infected as was the case when a large number of Passengers received the virus on the Diamond Princess cruise line recently. 

Prediction of coronavirus peak before the end of February came true.
I have been charting the virus on an XL spreadsheet since the first 45 cases were reported on January 16 th.



At first, the number of new cases was very scary and when projected out a couple months would've meant Millions of people infected and hundreds of thousands of deaths. 

By mid-March, China took drastic measures to contain the virus by locking everybody up in their high-rise buildings, not allowing anybody on the streets plus refusing new cases coming into the hospitals.  

We started to see a glimmer of hope as the number of new cases slowed down.

Then the Chinese government took drastic measures to contain the virus and in effect locked down most of China. 

I started to see the number of new cases slow down significantly.

At one point I made a radical prediction that if the percentage of the new cases continues to slow down that we may see the virus peak in February or March. 

Last week on Feb 19th that prediction came true. As can be seen on the chart below there was a 0% increase in cases reported around the world.

There's been further positive signs with China stating that the amount of cases has actually been declining in China. 
Many Chinese are starting to go back to work.

Pandemic Breaks Out In Europe and the Americas:
Just when everything was looking positive the rest of the world started reporting cases in places such as Italy, Iran, Middle Esat including Israel and over 10 countries last night alone.

Donald Trump's disastrous press conference:
It became serious enough that Donald Trump held a rare press conference approximately 24 hours ago regarding this subject.

I watched again as this clown pretended that he knew what he was doing and appointed his V.P. Mike Pence who maybe even more incompetent than Donald Trump as the head of the task force to handle the coronavirus in America.
Several times during his own press conference Donald Trump as usual, through his ignorance displayed that he really didn't know what was going on. For example when he said there's only 15 American's infected when The World Health Organization reports 50 infected already.

The 31 wildest lines from Donald Trump's self-congratulatory coronavirus press conference

9. "The vaccine is coming along well. And in speaking to the doctors, we think this is something that we can develop fairly rapidly, a vaccine for the future and coordinate with the support of our partners."

"At the earliest, an efficacy trial would take an additional six to eight months. So although this is the fastest we have ever gone from a sequence of a virus to a trial, it still would not be any applicable to the epidemic unless we really wait about a year to a year and a half." -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, shortly after Trump made his claim.

19. "And again, when you have 15 and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."

One wonders whether Trump has injured himself with such aggressive back-patting.

The Facts according to WHO Is that there is 300% more confirmed infections in America than trump stated 24 hours ago

At one point he took a question from Dr. Sanjana ICANN's medical expert.

25. "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."

Dr. Sanjana pointed It's not like the flu because the normal flu only kills .1% of the people that get infected whereas coronavirus has already proven to kill 2% to 3% of everyone that gets it. 
That is several hundred percent more than the normal flu.

30. "There's a chance that it won't spread, too, and there's a chance that it will." So you're saying there's a chance ...

Americans may have a civil uprising over the flu.

As I pointed out yesterday I'm very concerned that Western countries such as the United States and my home country of Canada may not be as easy to contain as it was in China.

Yesterday I had a thought which I published in my blog as follows.

China may Become Worlds Number one Economy if Coronavirus goes pandemic.

I had one of my "Nostradamus of Bali" premonitions a few hours ago, which I hope is wrong.

I had a vision of Coronavirus spreading like wildfire throughout the United States and America's.

When it goes pandemic would the United States and the Americas be able to lock all their citizens in their homes, deny them any access to hospitals and arrest those that do come out on the streets? Would the citizens of the Americas agree to wait at home during the quarantine period?

The answer is quite simply no way. Trump supporters would be the first to bear arms against the quarantine authorities to prevent that from happening.

China May Become World’s Number 1 Economy:

There's been a lot of negative news about China recently.

I'll tell you what when the Chinese government talks, the Chinese citizens listen.

Had it not been for them listening to their government about staying home and sterile for several weeks there would be tens of thousands of people infected and hundreds dying every day as a result.

It dawned on me that now that China appears to have most of it under control and cases have peaked in mainland China they will start having their citizens go back to work.

 

This may be simultaneous with the Americas having the disease go pandemic and everybody shutting down.

Therefore, the Chinese would be benefiting from no competition on products such as electronics, produce, meats, cereal crops and everything else that they produce.

The bottom line is China would regain everything they lost during the few weeks while under quarantine and perhaps take over as the number one economy in the world.

God I hope I'm wrong on this one

Indonesia has no reported cases of coronavirus will it continue?

As of the last report from the World Health Organization Indonesia which of course includes Bali has no reported cases of coronavirus. 

 There have been several patients in the last couple of weeks that were suspected of having the disease and proven to be negative.

Why doesn't Indonesia and Bali have Coronavirus?:

There are many theories on why we have been blessed with no confirmed cases up until.

One that makes a lot of sense is that, as several doctors have stated, coronavirus is like the flu in that it is seasonal. The flu does not like lots of sunlight and high temperatures.

I remember when the SARS broke out 18 years ago. I noticed that although most of Asia was affected dramatically Indonesia had only a few cases.

Yesterday a Hong Kong-based brokerage firm CLSA, Professor Nicholls referenced the 2002–03 SARS outbreak and said environmental conditions – such as temperature, humidity, and sunlight – are a ‘crucial factor’ in a virus’ ability to survive and infect people. ‘Sunlight will cut the virus’ ability to grow in half, so the half-life will be two-and-a-half minutes and in the dark it’s about 13–20 minutes. Sunlight is really good at killing viruses,’ he said.

Editor's comments: This is perhaps why as of this day 2020 – 02 – 28 Indonesia is one of the few countries in the world with no reported cases of coronavirus.
The great thing about Indonesia is we have plenty of sunshine and great weather all year long. 

Unfortunately Australia our southern neighbour will soon be entering its fall and winter.

Scott Morrison government declares coronavirus will become a pandemic

2020-02-27 Australian prime minister Scott Morrison announces a health emergency response plan as the government declares coronavirus will become a pandemic. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Australia has declared the coronavirus will become a global pandemic, and extended its travel ban on visitors from China, as a surge of new cases of Covid-19 around the world fuel fears containment measures have failed.

What worries me about that is that they may see a significant increase in coronavirus cases when the weather changes. 

I pray that this doesn't happen for the sake of my Australian friends and clients.

Indonesians are immune from viruses.

Another theory that I've heard from several people including my personal physician is that Indonesians have high immunity to viruses. This may be  why they don't have it as of yet.

The gods will keep the virus away.

And finally, there is, of course, the belief that the Balinese gods will keep the virus away from Bali.

Whatever the reason is for Indonesia and Bali being coronavirus free to date may include the above and many more reasons but let's just pray that it continues.

Indonesia is coronavirus free:
For now, we can advertise that Indonesia is coronavirus free. 

This may sway some tourists into changing their travel plans from places such as Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and even Australia.

Future bookings: We are also very happy to report to villa owners that our bookings for the following months appear to be holding, with only a very few cancellations, which have been made up with new reservations.

This too shall pass.

As I said to my staff recently for the 22 years I've lived here we had to endure the collapse of the national government, the resignation of Suharto and the serious financial times that followed. 

We lived through two bombings almost 2 decades ago which caused a significant drop in tourist arrivals. 

Not to forget a boxing day's Tsunami on Sumatra quite some time ago that killed over a hundred thousand people over 1,500 kilometers from Bali.

More recently we had severe earthquakes on Neigbour Islands which barely affected Bali. 
Then in the last two years  Mount Agung volcano who was sleeping for 67 years woke up which appears to have now gone back to sleep. 

Finally there last year's election riots and victims in Jakarta almost 1000 km away.

Remember always Bali is still Paradise nothing will change that in the foreseeable future.

 We are still ranked as the number one tourist designation in Asia and number four in the world.

The fact that we're one of the few countries in the world with no official reported coronavirus coupled with the fact that we're heading into our best months of the year it may actually be a record year for PT. Bali Luxury Villas.

As always we pray for those who are suffering through this the most horrific influential breakout of my lifetime and hope that they too will be back to normal soon.

As always we want thank our villa owners, our thousands of satisfied guests, clients, our staff and our families for all their support in helping to make us one of the oldest and most successful Villa Hotels in Bali.
One that is ranked in the top 2% of hotels by Tripadvisor in the world.

Cheers Azizah and Lawrence

Owners and Directors.

PT. Bali Affordable Lifestyles International
 who manages over 100 staff including PT. Bali Luxury Villas