{"id":9088,"date":"2011-11-05T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2013-10-30T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T20:13:10","slug":"bali-island-of-the-gods-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/bali-island-of-the-gods-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali, Island of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PULAU DEWATA \u2013 \u201cIsland of the Gods\u201c \u2013 as the Balinese call their country. Who wants to contradict them there? Coconut trees shade fine sandy beaches, snow-white in the south, volcano-black in the north, varied landscape of hills and mountains, rugged coastlines, lush rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides; Bali is blessed with dream beaches, a fascinating culture, tropical climate and fauna and so much more \u2026 The gods must know best after all, where on earth they can live heavenly !<\/p>\n<p>Me personally, I am very attached to this pearl in the Indian Ocean. By now nearly 10 years ago I did my first kite-course on Bali and therefore this island has a very special place in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story on my &#8216;return to Kitegabi&#8217;s birthplace&#8217; in this 8-page feature in French in Stance Magazine, yew !<br \/>\nSimply scroll down and choose whether you would like to download, read online or print the article.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively if your native language isn&#8217;t French, check out the article in <a title=\"Check out my Bali-article in German in Kiteboarding.eu!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/bali-island-of-the-gods\/\">German in Kiteboarding.eu<\/a> or <a title=\"Check out my Bali-feature in Spanish in Surf a Vela!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/bali-island-of-the-gods-2\/\">Spanish in Surf a Vela.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have fun guys &amp; please send me you feedback, I always love to hear from you \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nGxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PULAU DEWATA \u2013 \u201cIsland of the Gods\u201c \u2013 as the Balinese call their country. Who wants to contradict them there? Coconut trees shade fine sandy beaches, snow-white in the south, volcano-black in the north, varied landscape of hills and mountains, rugged coastlines, lush rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides; Bali is blessed with dream beaches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[420,1733,1689,1449,373,1904,1670,421,349,426,118,42],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-stories","tag-bali","tag-birthplace","tag-canggu","tag-crossing","tag-france","tag-freestyle","tag-gods","tag-indonesia","tag-island","tag-sanur","tag-stance","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9115,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}