Bali, Indonesia is one of those glittering bucket list destinations that every backpacker dreams of visiting. But that dream seems a lot less attainable if you happen to live in the Americas: it took us 24 hours to fly to this island paradise, versus our friends in Australia who are able to hop up to Bali for a long weekend (I guess they also have to deal with enormous man-eating spiders all the time, so it only seems fair). Still, we wanted to befriend monkeys and live our backpacker dreams, so this summer we took 2 weeks to go see what the fuss was all about. It was our first ever trip to Asia and we didn’t know quite what to expect, but we had that kind of excited anticipation you get when you’re about to explore a brand new continent. When we bought our plane tickets for Bali, we were afraid that it might be one of those places that’s all hype and no substance. We were afraid that Bali’s popularity would result in overly crowde...