- Title: Trap in Bali: Tourists enjoy unexpected extended holiday
- Date: 28th November 2017
- Summary: BALI, INDONESIA (NOVEMBER 28, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TOURISTS WITH FACE MASKS LOOKING AT ERUPTING MOUNT AGUNG ASH SPEWING FROM MOUNT AGUNG TOURIST TAKING PICTURE IN FRONT OF ERUPTING MOUNT AGUNG (SOUNDBITE) (English) GERMAN TOURIST STRANDED IN BALI, SEBASTIAN MEIER SAYING: "We are here for holiday, and we see this (volcano eruption) the first time. They cancelled our f
- Embargoed: 12th December 2017 11:46
- Keywords: Indonesia tourists volcano airport closed Bali extended holiday sight-seeing time laspe
- Location: BALI, INDONESIA
- City: BALI, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Earthquakes/Volcanoes/Tsunami
- Reuters ID: LVA00179E2BET
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: With the closure of a busy international airport due to the heightening threat from a rumbling volcano on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, tourists who are stranded on the island decided to make the most out their unexpected extended holiday.
Trapped on the paradise island, German tourists Sebastian Meier and Judith Wendler, along with a handful of other tourists, visited the observatory post for a closer glimpse of Mount Agung as a column of grey-and-black ash continue to spew from the 3000-metre volcano on Tuesday (November 28).
Back on Bali's most visited Kuta beach, on the southwest of Mount Agung, beachgoers were sunbathing and swimming despite the looming threat, enjoying just another "relax, drink and spend money" day, said Australian Nicole Billington whose flight to Melbourne on Monday (November 27) was cancelled.
Meanwhile Norwegians Inge and Else Vardoey were pleasantly surprised, when the couple's supposedly one-and-a-half hour transit to Doha via Denpasar International Airport turned into a two-day beach-side layover. "We actually should have been at work, both of us, already," chuckled Inge Vardoey.
The Transport Ministry kept the airport closed for a second day on Tuesday, disrupting a total of 443 flights, both domestic and international. Denpasar airport is situated around 60 km (37 miles) from Mount Agung. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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