About this item
Whether readers are planning a trip to Bali or just fantasizing about one, "Journey Through Bali & Lombok" makes for an unforgettable Bali travel guide. Containing more than 300 color photographs, this breathtaking volume brings you from the trendy beach of Seminyak to the Monkey Forest at Sangeh and the hot springs along Lake Batur to the sunken wrecks off Tulamben. Through stunning photographs, readers climb Lombok's smoldering Mt. Rinjani volcano and explore the nearby rustic Gili Islands and Nusa Lembongan. Greenway was a longtime resident of Bali and still considers it his spiritual home. "Journey Through Bali & Lombok" capture the region's stunning natural landscapes and the lives and experiences of the Balinese people including their renowned religious festivals, gamelan music, and painting and craft traditions.
About the Author
Paul spent one previous life working for an Australian intelligence service in Sydney, Canberra and Darwin (but he can't tell you any more) . He then joined Lonely Planet, writing or co-writing 30 guidebooks to weird and wonderful places like Mongolia, Yemen and Poland, as well as Indonesia and Bali.
After realising he was too old to write for backpackers, Paul became a teacher, sharing his love and knowledge of Indonesia in South Australian high schools; and lived in Jakarta for several years promoting education development programs to schools across Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
More recently, his first novel, 'Bali & Oates' (JoJo, Melbourne, 2013) , was published. The first of the 'Oates Trilogy', the other two, 'Vietnamnesia' and 'Afghans and Malaise', will be self-published in 2014 and 2015.
Other published titles include: 'The Hard Way Home' (JoJo, 2014) , co-written with Allan Roberts about Allan's motorbike odyssey across the world; a guidebook, 'Tuttle Travel Pack: Bali & Lombok' (Tuttle, USA, 2014) ; and a photo-book 'Journey Through Bali' (Tuttle, later in 2015.
Paul is searching for a publisher for a series of quirky comedies he's written starting with 'Bali Billy'. He also writes travel articles for Australian and Asian magazines and websites, and has conducted travel-writing workshops for the SA Writers' Centre.
Paul has also written two full-length movie scripts 'Cinnamon Sweat' and 'Heaven Nor Hell', and a TV series 'Middle Aged Runaways'. Also written but unproduced is a short film 'Class Act' and a one-act drama 'A Halt in Play', which was shortlisted for a competition by a Queensland theatre company.
His other interests include making film clips, which can be seen on his YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9t-fMHO-wcWVJH1G-YgKg
Neglecting to get married, Paul now lives in Adelaide, South Australia, without any wives or children. He currently spends his time writing or not writing. He can be contacted through his website: www.paulgreenway.net
