Photo by Andre Roosevelt, c.1925. Andre Roosevelt (c. 1879-July 1962) was a filmmaker and adventurer, travelling to Bali in 1924, attempting to develop the tourist market but at the same time preserve Bali's cultural integrity. He envisioned making Bali a national or international park. In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot Goona-Goona (also called The Kris) with assistance from Walter Spies. It was released in the U.S. in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali.

Bali is home to most of Indonesia's small Hindu minority with some 92% of the island??? 4 million population adhering to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the remainder follow Islam.

Bali is the largest tourist destination in Indonesia, and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional and modern dance, sculpture, painting, leatherwork, metalwork and music.