Woman buys traditional house for $8,000, ships it across Indonesia to create Bali dream home

Bali first captured Kayti Denham's heart when she came to the island for her honeymoon in the 1980s. Years later, she was able to acquire a piece of land on which she re-assembled a traditional Indosenian house. But then the pandemic struck, leaving her stranded in Australia and unable to live in her dream home.

(CNN) — Bali first captured Kayti Denham's heart when she came to the Indonesian island for her honeymoon in the 1980s. "When the plane door opened onto the tarmac, the heady tropical aroma promised everything the UK did not," she recalls. "The chance to be frolicsome and sun-drenched." She held that memory close, and returned to the island now and then to reconnect. The marriage didn't last, but Denham says she fell more deeply in love with Bali than she ever has with a man.