Kuta: Bali Best Beach
Kuta is the best beach on Bali, with the only surf which breaks over sand instead of coral. Accommodation and food choices are aplenty. Shops and hawkers offer everything from knick-knacks to genuine antiques offered at bargain prices. Beneath the traffic-clogged streets, Kuta is still a village - a place of quiet compounds and narrow alleys, where devotional offerings are placed in front of houses and neighbors emerge in the coolness of the evening to gossip in the street.
Further in from the beaches, labyrinthine roads and alleys lead back to the most amazing collection of hotels, restaurants, bars, food stalls and shops. The renowned Poppies Gang, running directly back from Kuta Beach, is where most of the quieter, inexpensive hostels and restaurants are located. Beachfront accommodation is available in Legian - the lanes running parallel to the beach are the best places to start trawling for a decent bed.
The cosmopolitan Kuta and Legian areas spots on exciting cocktail of beach-party hedonism and entrepreneurial energy.
