Bali welcomes King,  King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud  (Saudi Arabia’s King)

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 Superb Luxurious Hotels are ready

Bali is famous for its excellent hospitality in tourism for years.  This March4 –March9, 2017 Bali has been ready to host King Salman and his entourage of 1,500, including 25 princes and 10 ministers,  fly to Bali on Saturday aboard nine passenger jets for a private holiday. They will be guarded on the island by at least 2,500 police and military personnel, as well as naval vessels parked offshore.

According to the Guardian,  The king’s Boeing 747-jet will be met at the airport by his usual gold-coloured escalator. Two planeloads of cargo were flown in before the visit, including plates, carpets and two bulletproof Mercedes.

Balinese Hindu Local Security "Pecalang"

On the white sand beach in front of Bali’s St Regis resort, one in a row of five-star hotels where the Saudis will stay, two-meter-tall screens have been put up to shield guests from prying eyes. A wooden staircase has been built for the royals to access the water.

“There will definitely be marine security because there’s a section of beach where the [king] will be staying,” said the Bali’s Udayana military chief, Major General Kustanto Widiatmoko.

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Also mentioned,  six ships would be deployed along with anti-terrorism police and snipers, and he hoped security would not impinge on the Saudi group’s privacy.

Reported, King Salman is on a tour of Asia in an effort to build the Saudi Arabia’s ties with the fast-growing Asian economies and drum up investment to diversify the Saudi economy away from dependence on oil. The extravagance of his official trip, punctuated by holidays, contrasts with an austerity drive at home caused by lower oil prices.