Bali, Indonesia

Rice terraces, temples, and the best sunsets on earth

It's been hyped a thousand times — and it still delivers every single time.

Bali has remained predominantly Hindu for over a thousand years, a religious island in an otherwise Muslim-majority archipelago — a distinction that shaped its temple architecture and its entire calendar of ceremonies. The Majapahit Empire's 14th-century retreat to Bali is why the island's culture feels unlike anywhere else in Indonesia.

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