
Rachel Bergsma is the writer of the Facebook blog Ibu Chronicles, a blog about an Australian woman iving in Bali with her Dutch husband and working in a traditional village in North Bali. Now, a published book, The Ibu Chronicles was published as a fundraiser to raise money for the Balinese in the village their business was located in, the profits used to purchase food staples, such as rice, etc. Her second book The Epiphany is the background story to The Ibu Chronicles and continues with part 2, The Measurement of Wealth. Rachel (Rach) and her husband, have been living and running a tour and travel business located in a Balinese owned hotel, at Lake Batur, in rural Bali for 12 years. Well, before Rona visited. Just over twenty years after she vowed never to return to Bali, she now follows the Balinese faith and lives a simple life in Bali, Indonesia, with her husband, her rescue dogs and her extended Balinese family.