The Lodge Bedugul is located in Bedugul. Bedugul is located in the northern mountain region of Bali, approximately 120 minutes from Bali’s International Airport. Nestled in the lush highland, surrounded by tropical rain forest, Bedugul is the best kept secret in Bali. The journey to Bedugul is a sightseers delight. Tapered rice paddies illuminate as the morning sun spreads it’s rays. Mountain roads meander through this splender of colour.

The Lodge Bedugul is truly a place to relax and breath in the fresh mountain air and at the same time enjoy all the modern conveniences of executive style living.

When someone take a closer look on Balinese offering, he/she will readily conclude that most parts of the offering are woven palm leaves. Jejaitan, or woven coconut leaves is not just an indispensable part but also the major part of a Balinese offering.

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Most of jejaitan is made of coconut leaves. The young coconut leaves, busung, is used as material for jejaitan that is used immediately in a ceremony. The mature coconut leaves, slepan is used to make jejaitan that is stored for a quite long time waiting to be used in the approaching ceremony. some jejaitan that is stored for a really long time is usually made of dried palm leaves. There is also jejaitan that is made form sugar palm leaves, thorny pandanus leaves and endong leaves.

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Villa Adinda is built at the edge of a small village Pererenan in the Canggu area. The village is typical Balinese. Tourism has not yet penetrated. Yet the hot spots are not very far. Seminyak: 15 minutes by car, Kuta, at 20 minutes. The airport is at 25 minutes drive. To the northwest, at 20 minutes by car from the villa, you will find the golf links of Tanah Lot, in 2002 chosen as the best in Asia.

The servant guards Villa Adinda, works in the garden and takes care of the house and the guests. The garden is planted with a selection of beautiful indigenous plants, flowers, and trees. The two temples for the gods offer spiritual protection. A few steps lead from the house to the terrace with lounge-chairs, two swimming-pools and a lotus pond. The pool for the children is 2,5 x 8 m en 40 cm deep. The big pool is 9 x 13 m and 1.60 deep. At the corner of the big pool is the Baleh bengong, a small covered typical Balinese outhouse.

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Brem, sweet rice wine that is usually found in traditional markets or roadside stalls large Bintang beer bottles is one of three popular Balinese liquors – other are arak, and tuak. Like arak and tuak, brem is in addition of being a beverage, a necessity for matabuh (offering liquid for bhuta kala, evil spirit, demon, etc) in almost all religious ceremonies. Very large quantities of it are made and used for that purpose. This is usually low grade, homemade brem, and it is often mixed with water. It is a pat of custom in some areas in Bali to bring a bottle of brem or two as a present for the family that hold a religious ceremony or as an offering in a temple anniversary.

Brem is made from glutinous or “sticky” white rice, known as ketan in Balinese, and a smaller amount of Indonesian black rice, called injin in bali. Both ketan and injin are less commonly used in cooking than common white rice, baas. The sticky ketan is made into various Balinese traditional cookies for offering and other religious purpose. The black injin, is made into delicious traditional dessert (jaja injin) by cooking and serving with brown palm sugar and coconut milk. Since injin is rather expensive, only enough is used in brem to impart the desired final color.

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Villa Vajra is located 300 metres above sea level in the Ubud’s foothills of the central mountain range; this gives it a fresher, more pleasant climate than the southern coastal regions. The location is also very convenient for tours all over the island and is only a forty-minute drive from the coast.

Villa Vajra is comprised of several thatched pavillions joined by stepping stones across a magical lotus pond; a pergola covered by hanging thunbergia flowers; floating stairs that stand beside a cascading waterfall veiling a traditional seated Buddha. A comfortable lounge area rests beside the cooling swimming pool and warming jacuzzi. Stone stairs lead to a ‘moon’ garden of white flowers and an intimate deck for massage. It is the ultimate accommodation for up to eight guests in a totally private and exclusive natural ecosystem.

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Gedong Kirtya, the only palm-leaf manuscript library in Bali or maybe in the world is founded in 1928. Gedong Kirtya was opened to the public by the then Governor General of East Indies, A. C.D. de Graff on 14 September 1928. The date of the opening is engraved on a monogram or candra sangkala on the entrance door. This monogram consists of the image of a human riding on an elephant with a bow in his hand, killing his enemy with an arrow. This image is interpreted as follows: a human represents the figure 1; elephant figure 8; arrow figure 5 and the dead person figure 0. According to Caka year, Gedong Kirtya was founded in Caka 1850.

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