The World’s Most Expensive Coffee

The world’s most exquisite coffee—and certainly the most expensive—is made from coffee beans that have been eaten, partially digested, and excreted by a small Southeast Asian creature called the luwak. This coffee-making process, which I hadn’t heard of...

Eat, Pray, Scrub in Ubud

Hear about a surprising massage in Bali from Wayan, the healer featured in the bestselling book, Eat, Pray, Love. In this case, it was “Eat, Pray, Scrub” and the result was not what I expected.

Eat, Pray, Scrub

“I don’t normally swallow mysterious pills from strangers, but in Ubud I made an exception. This small-but-lively city is the health capital of Bali, and I couldn’t resist tracking down Wayan Nuriasih, one of the star healers from the book Eat, Pray, Love,...

Magical Beans

The world’s most expensive coffee is made from coffee beans that have been eaten, partially digested, and excreted by a small Southeast Asian creature called the luwak. Come along as I explore Bali, track down the paradoxical creature that produces Indonesian Kopi Luwak, and learn its secrets.

Bali Photo-Journal

Bali is festivals and floral offerings, ceremonies and spas, the echo of gamelan music floating across rice fields … centuries-old temples, intricately-carved wooden masks, hypnotic dance, batik, magical double-ikat weaving, and Ubud’s Sacred Monkey Forest. View more than 300 photos of Bali’s best sights…