Jelly Hotel looks like a regular hotel save the theatrical touches in rooms ranging from Bali-resort style to princess.

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Hotels that made the cut ranged from the one-suite Howie's HomeStay in Thailand to the massive and elegant 745-room Mulia Resort in Bali, and included a converted 17th-century monastery on a cliff as well as a safari camp next to Masai land.

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Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

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The Rinjani Scops owl was first identified in 2003 and has since been spotted only on Lombok island, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the popular resort island of Bali.

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On October 10th, during a rally on the resort island of Bali, thousands of members of the Indonesian Democratic Party turned out to pick Sukarno's daughter, Megawati Sukarnoputri, as their presidential candidate for 1999.

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On Oct. 8, the day Megawati opened the congress before tens of thousands of red-clad supporters on a blistering field in the beach resort of Sanur, Bali helped pull off exactly what the PDI team wanted: a grand political spectacle to punctuate Megawati's transformation from party outcast to presidential contender.

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Notwithstanding the terrorist blast in Bali that hurt air traffic to the resort island, Asia remains the world's fastest-growing air traffic market.

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Krissada turned to Bill Bensley, a Bangkok-based American who became famous for designing plush resort landscaping in Thailand and Bali before moving to the front ranks of five-star-hotel architects.

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