This tiny island of nearly three million Hindus, surrounded by a sea of 160 million Muslims, lies just two km from the far eastern tip of Java. When the first Dutch war yacht pulled into Bali on 22 February 1597, those aboard found a heaven on earth. In the 1930s several popular documentaries featured this island paradise; then the world knew, and Bali has been degenerating ever since. It's a tourist colony now, an Isle of Capri in the western Pacific. Earnings from tourism have risen spectacularly each year since 1970, and the industry is now aiming at one million tourists a year & 151 : one visitor for every three Balinese.