Bali, why do Australians go there?

[ufo_investigations]

I heard on the news another 2 Australians died in Bali. Why do Australians go there? We have better places to holiday at right here at home! 

We have great food, fantastic beaches and many beautiful places to go to so why do Aussies feel the need to go to third world countries when we have everything here? 

We are fortunate to have the best of everything why risk it all in a country with standards far below ours.

If I were given free flights + free cash to go to Bali I would decline! No way would I go there under any circumstances.

Support Australian jobs.

Support our economy.

Spend your money here.

Holiday our wonderful country.

How many more Australians have to die over there before people wake up?

[daydream**believer]

Never been and never will.

My friend goes there every couple of years though. Why? because she says its cheap.

Within Australia, she has never been out of South Australia

[bluecat*dancing]

Nothing wrong with broadening your horizon. I have family and friends who have gone to Bali over the past 30 years and all have said how much they love it there and look forward to the next holiday.

[margomeoz]

Mugsy that is normally one of the times I go but this year I have a couple of the Balinese coming here to stay.

Be interesting to know how they like it.

My friend will be there from the 7th March till the 30th March and she will be taking care of business for me.

Is that the only time you are going this year?

I will be there again on the 18th August till the 14th September.

[mugssy65]

Lol Margo if Air Asia keep their prices as low as they are now I see 4 trips this year!
One of them will most likely August/September, I'll give you a hoi closer to the time.

[izabsmiling]

Noelene ordered Fritto Misto - a selection of calamari, tuna fish and prawns with French fries - and her daughter had a dish of fried calamari. They finished off with desserts of Crema Al Caramelo or cream caramel and Crepes Micado or thin pancakes with vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce. They also had one pineapple, coconut and banana juice and three iced lemongrass teas.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/noelene-and-yvana-bischoff-were-happy-and-smiling-befor...

One thing which I had wondered about was what they drank ..though the drinks  don't seem to be being considered .

My thoughts are with the family and friends...I hope that they have some answers soon 

[twinkles**stars]

Eldest daughter has two trips booked for this year.

[cherry*135]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

Noelene ordered Fritto Misto - a selection of calamari, tuna fish and prawns with French fries - and her daughter had a dish of fried calamari. They finished off with desserts of Crema Al Caramelo or cream caramel and Crepes Micado or thin pancakes with vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce. They also had one pineapple, coconut and banana juice and three iced lemongrass teas.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/noelene-and-yvana-bischoff-were-happy-and-smiling-befor...

One thing which I had wondered about was what they drank ..though the drinks  don't seem to be being considered .

My thoughts are with the family and friends...I hope that they have some answers soon 

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That was their lunch.

They also had dinner out as well.

[cherry*135]

Dinner receipt. Very sad, whatever it was that caused their deaths. Mahi-mahi was the fish.

[mugssy65]

These are the things that don't add up to me, if they arrived at the hotel from Ubud already sick, why were they eating dinner? Food poisoning usually doesn't kill you in four hours, if at all, you usually die from dehydration and organ failure many hours later. If it was food poisoning it's more likely to have been something ingested earlier in the day?

[*crikey*mate*]

If the cause is food, I'm thinking a food allergy to something like peanuts....

I doubt it was food poisoning, at least not a naturally occurring case of food poisoning from pathogens consumed in the 6 hours prior to death, can't rule out that someone may have purposely laced their food with a poison... maybe they got food intended for somebody else?

well an ayutopsy can, but no results from that yet, so the rest is all speculation.

Food Poisoning

Anyone know if these are the only suspected cases? Seems to me that there would be more than 2 people affected, and as we have not heard of a significant spike in unexplained deaths from the region, seems a bit strange that only 2 people have been affected and but only them, this severely.

Maybe some underlying health issue exacerbated by normal food poisoning (they did have some prescription medicine from Australia for something)

don't know - just speculation. But I do not believe this is any garden variety kind of food poiosoning contracted in Bali within that 6 hour incubartion period. Not even Botulism works that fast with that severity if there are no other contributing factors.