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If Kuta and Canggu are too busy and crowded for your taste you should consider living in the Ubud area. It is a quieter neighbourhood with yoga and meditation retreats as well as a focus on the local culture. Many digital nomads choose to escape to Ubud at some point to get work done and truly be productive. Ubud gives you the opportunity to reconnect with nature and truly embrace the Balinese lifestyle while still being able to work comfortably.

THE GREAT HILL STATIONS OF ASIA By Barbara Crossette Westview. 259 pp. $28 Reviewed by Robin Winks, Townsend Professor of History at Yale, where he specializes in the history of modern empires. Barbara Crossette, the New York Times United Nations bureau chief, has written a charming, thoughtful, and on the whole well-researched book about hill stations as the residue of empire. Based on travels in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines in 1996 and 1997, and shaped by an adventurous sense of place, The Great Hill Stations of Asia is, despite some severe competition, the best book on the subject ever written. Hill stations sprang up wherever European colonialists allowed themselves a sense of permanence in fever-stricken lands, and where hills and mountains rose at least a mile above surrounding plains. There were hill stations in East Africa, but it was in Asia, and especially in British Asia, that these resort-cum-sanitarium communities played their distinctive role in empire-building. Soldiers, administrators, merchants and missionaries suffered from dysentery, cholera, malaria, sunstroke and depression in the devastatingly moist and hot tropical lands to which their nations' imperial ambitions sent them. The death rate in West Africa (or for that matter in Newfoundland, also frighteningly high) might not be combatted, but where one could get above the port cities, the deserts, and the rain forests of South and Southeast Asia, one might recuperate, send one's children to European-style boarding schools, or mix socially with fewer constraints than in the imperial administrative capitals. There were, before the retreat of empire, nearly a hundred such towns. Most were established between 1820 and 1885, though the French and the Americans created their hill stations later, and the British in Malaya latest of all. These hill stations decayed after World War II brought rapid and often unexpected decolonization. They were needed less when rapid air transportation made Home, as the British referred to Britain, closer and when air conditioning, antibiotics and insecticides made them less necessary. Now they are being given a new lease on life -- or, as Crossette often implies, are being further destroyed -- by a new generation of Asians who build ugly concrete hotels, gouge golf courses out of the green hillsides, and submit the once slow-paced small towns to the indignities of day-trippers and the horrors of -- as she quotes another as saying (apparently not quite ready to embrace the thought as wholly her own) -- the Indian love of noise. For Crossette is realistic about the faults of imperialism while retaining a romantic's love of the cozy inn, the musty library, tea and scones, and the un-air-conditioned room. This book is even-handed, clear-headed and very well written in the tradition of the best of travel literature. Chapters on Murree in Pakistan; on Simla, Mussoorie, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kodai-kanal, and Ootacamund in India -- this last the focus of the first of the postwar books to celebrate the Victorian hill stations, Mollie Panter-Downe's Ooty Preserved (1967); the Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka; and Maymyo in Burma are wonderfully descriptive of society, life, hotels, roads, the landscape, as good travel writing must be. The Malaysian hill stations, possibly soon to be linked by a major new highway, have become too ugly or too artificial for Crossette; she is brief and not particularly perceptive about Bogor, Bukittinggi and Brastagi in Indonesia, probably because she does not read Dutch, but comes alive again when she reaches Delat, in Vietnam, and then deals somewhat cursorily with Baguio in the Philippines, where positive-thinking Americans created a Cemetery of Negativism, where they "buried bad character traits like sloth and mendacity." Crossette is particularly good when she turns to the Kodaikanal International School, established by American missionaries for their children, and other educational institutions. She is a little less good with the missionaries themselves, though she is never condescending. She is at her best when most personal, especially in an extended description, both very funny and very compassionate, of being the only guest in Mussoorie's Savoy Hotel in the middle of winter. I have had the good fortune to visit many of the hill stations, and Crossette makes me eager to go again, to forget the dreadful drivers, the undeviating offer of meals "veg or no-veg" in India, the marauding monkeys, and the ever-present rebuke of vast and apparently unchangeable poverty in South Asia. She makes them all, the nostalgic and the modernized, seem desirable once again in The Great Hill Stations of Asia.

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Another decent choice is to head to Java, particularly the eastern portion of the island which gets less rain than the west. It will still be too muddy and wet to enjoy mountain climbs like Mt. Bromo but destinations like Surabaya and Lumpur have plenty of culture, art, food, and other forms of entertainment (much of which takes place indoors and out of the rain).

Head to Bali and check out its many natural and cultural wonders. If it's sunny, try surfing, shopping, or dining out in the super popular beach town of Kuta. Or, check out the Tanah Lot water temple farther up north. Ubud is another a popular tourist town known for its yoga retreats and mindfulness centers, as well as a robust nightlife and party scene. Take a class at the Yoga Barn or visit traditional silversmiths in the Celuk village nearby. The rice paddies that surround town will be lush and green in April, making it a perfect time to wander the trails or ride a bike through the countryside. ff782bc1db