Travel Bali
However you experience Bali, you will be charmed by its spiritual people, its intense beauty, and its tropical melange of fecundity and decay.
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At the hotel Chapung Sebali, the Jungle Fish Bar is a draw for day trippers who want to spend a day hanging out at a pool in the tropical forest near Ubud.
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The long house at Rob Cohen’s Villa Campuhan in Karangasem. The roofline evokes the horns of water buffalo, and is a feature of the traditional architecture of the Minangkaboa people of West Sumatra.
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During a morning rice paddy trek near Karangasam, led by Emerald Starr, an American ex-pat who founded Sorga, an organic chocolate company, we encountered a local farmer planting his crop in the calf-deep water.
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On a “trash walk” through rice paddies outside Ubud, led by Cynthia Hardy of Bambu Indah hotel, a group of visitors spears errant plastic garbage. If they are home, she and her husband, John Hardy, lead the walks each morning at 7.
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Below the main Bambu Indah grounds, swimming pools are accessible by a bamboo elevator, spiral staircase and bamboo bridge. At an evening cocktail party, Cynthia Hardy, in orange, steps off a revolving mandala of flower petals. Flaming bamboo torches add to the magical feeling. Day passes are available to visitors who are not hotel guests.
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“Lost Soles,” a sculpture made of cast off flip flops welcomes guests to Potato Head, a popular beach club at the Katamama Hotel in Seminyak.
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