Waterbom Bali
Jungle-set water park with slides threaded around preserved trees and a swim-up bar.
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This guide to Waterbom Bali follows Santo Gulino, an Italian expatriate who arrived in the early 1970s and insisted his new water park go up without felling a single tree, using bamboo scaffolding and hand tools instead of machinery. You'll hear how workers threaded slides between living trunks over four years before the park opened in December 1993 with just eight slides, and how that stubborn approach carried the park through a financial crisis, an epidemic scare and the bombings that emptied Kuta of tourists. Listen for how much of the grounds are still jungle, exactly as Santo intended from day one.
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