I waited my whole life to go to Bali. Now I wish I had kept waiting.

Meagan Drillinger for Business Insider For years, I had a vision of Bali in my mind as a sparkling, pristine paradise with empty stretches of beach. I finally visited the Indonesian island last year, and it turned out that vision was wrong. What I found instead, in large part, were tourists snapping variations of the same photo and trash littering the beaches. I spent time in Canggu, Ubud, and Padang Bai — and only the third of those stood up to my expectations. Visit Business Insider's homepa...