I went a couple of years ago for a short backpacking adventure. If you want to party, go to the Gili Islands and thank me later!
-Have cash in hand when you arrive as Indonesia requires you to pay for your visa on arrival (it was $25 US when I went) and they don't take credit card. I didn't have any cash on me, and the whole ordeal of getting money to pay for my visa and then going through customs took almost 3 hours
-Get used to hustlers yelling at you constantly trying to sell you stuff
-Haggle on everything. They know you're going to pay more than what it's worth.
-If you want to use your phone, be careful where you buy a sim card (pretty much every street merchant has them). I had some idiot nearly ruin mine while removing the sim card
-Kuta sucks, don't waste any more time there than you absolutely have to
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