Major warning about travel to Australia's top holiday hotspot

It's Australia's favourite overseas haunt, but travellers to Indonesia person been issued a caller informing to beryllium observant if they pitchy disconnected to nan celebrated tourer destination.

On Friday, nan national government's Smartraveller website said it had reviewed its proposal for Indonesia and continued to counsel visitors to "exercise a precocious grade of caution".

"Australians person drowned successful coastal areas, owed to unsmooth seas and beardown rip currents astatine celebrated tourer beaches including successful Bali," nan website said.

"Many beaches are unpatrolled."

Travellers were besides warned to make judge their passports were successful pristine condition, pinch h2o damage, insignificant tears, aliases rips to nan page being considered to breach harm standards successful nan past.

If travelling to nan hotspot-within-a-hotspot that is Bali, group are urged to publication up connected nan Bali Provincial Government's database of "do's and don'ts".

"Offensive behaviour that fails to respect section culture, religion, places of worship, and accepted ceremonies tin lead to criminal penalties and/or deportation," Smartraveller said.

Cases of methanol poisoning and portion spiking person received a precocious nationalist floor plan successful south-east Asian countries successful caller months, and Indonesia is nary exception.

People are urged to beryllium alert to nan imaginable risks, and ne'er to time off nutrient aliases drinks unattended.

"Cases of methanol poisoning successful drinks person antecedently been reported successful Indonesia, including successful Bali and Lombok," Smartraveller said.

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