Thursday, October 6, 2011

Stay In A Stylish Accommodation Offered By Villa Mandalay

Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, is popularly known for its varied landscape of hills and mountains, rugged coastlines and sandy beaches, lush rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides as well as its world-class surfing and diving and large number of cultural, historical and archaeological attractions.

Moreover, Bali is also known for its enormous range of Bali villas accommodations like the Canggu Bali villas.

Villa security has always been one of the top priorities of private villas in Bali. Renting a secured and private villa for your Bali Island vacation will surely assure you of peace and security during your stay in Bali. A secured private villa will assure guests of complete privacy, comfort and danger-free living less worry and stress.


One of Bali villas that have villa security is Villa Mandalay.

VILLA MANDALAY

Villa Mandalay, one of Canggu Bali villas, is secured properties with a 24 hour uniformed security so guests are assured that their stay in Villa Mandalay is completely secure and peaceful.

Villa Mandalay is accessed via a private entrance with ample parking space for up to several vehicles. An impressive foyer welcomes guests upon arrival and leads into a garden courtyard with water feature that precedes the main house. It boasts of spectacular view of traditional rice terraces and the ocean, making this villa for rent truly unique.

One of the luxurious hide-away in Canggu, Bali, Villa Mandalay is conveniently located near the famous Tanah Lot temple and the 18-hole Nirwana golf course.
A Luxurious Accommodations and Facilities

Villa Mandalay is a six bedroom villa that offers a stunning design and lifestyle packages for its guests. It showcases a stunning design that has been styled to showcase the natural beauty of some of the best indigenous materials from around the Indonesian archipelago.

Creamy sandstone and polished hardwood floors are topped by a roof of traditional timber tiles.

The six bedroom features its own ensuite bathroom, intimate sitting area and entertainment facilities. The four bedroom suites are located along both sides of the infinity pool and have been similarly designed for optimal comfort and privacy.
Stylishly designed property to encourage social interaction between a large family or group or friends as well as enables quality time out for personal relaxation, Villa Mandalay boasts of a 150 m² living area with bar, 25 x 6 meter pool with integrated Jacuzzi and a fully equipped kitchen with in-house chef.

Cleverly hidden in a lower level beneath the gazebo deck is spa area, a purposely built structure that includes a traditional timber sauna from Finland and plunge pool, bathroom facility and spa treatment room. There is also a small terrace and fish pond for quiet contemplation.

An immaculate grassed space that also serves as a six-hole putting green for golf enthusiasts is set amidst the remainder of the garden.

Isolated in a far corner to capture the true sights and sounds of the rural countryside is a traditional Balinese lounging pavilion.

Other Canggu Bali villas with Villa Security

Villa Mary

A secured private villa, Villa Mary is set amidst 150 metres from the beach of Canggu, which is known for its surfing beach and just 45 minutes from the airport and 15 minutes to central Seminyak and Oberoi area.

Providing all the comforts and glamour of modern tropical living while preserving a distinctive Balinese charm in an exotic atmosphere, this elegant Villa Mary boasts of stunning ocean views of good surfing breaks and views south to Kuta and the Bukit.

A four-bedroom villa, Villa Mary is luxuriously designed by one of Bali’s premier architect, Komang Suardika Jeghier of Jeghier Architect, creating a unique layout and beautiful roof design. It showcases a full staffed including villa supervisor, attendant and security guard. Chef and assistant cook are available upon request.

Villa Mary boasts of 4 air-conditioned bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, large one-piece wooden dining table with 8 dining chairs, fully equipped dry and wet kitchen featuring bar table for meals preparation, one private swimming pool 16 x 4.2 meters inclusive of a children’s section at the villa end and a relaxing area and pool deck with day bed, sun chairs, table and umbrella.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Bear Spiritual Wellness with Bali Sacred Bathing Places

Famously known as the fabled “Island of the Gods”, Bali is full of temple sights and cultural rituals. Found in every village - from the simple house temples to temples in every rice fields, by the sea and in places of natural wonders, even in village intersections - these temples are consecrated, purified and blessed to retain its sanctity by the holy rituals - which are performed to balance the energy of good and bad.

To the Balinese, water has always had ritual significance as an agent of purification. “Tirtha” or holy water has been the key ingredient in performing the Hindu rituals being the principal means by which forms of impurity from the people, places and sacred objects are cleansed.

Locals, from time to time, even perform self-cleansing rituals such as “malukat” - bathing in sea or natural springs - praying to the ancestral shrines and performing various self-restraining acts.

Moreover, some temples or the Balinese called "Pura" a holy place for the Hindu Balinese worship the God - are also sacred bathing places, which also includes the rivers, springs, lakes and the sea whose waters are highly recognized to have magical and curative qualities. This sacred baths in Bali are where Balinese cleansing rituals are also performed.

Bali Villas Sacred Bath

These cleansing rituals are the inspiration upon which some of Bali’s luxury villas and Bali villa spa share the experience of Balinese beliefs and feel the union of serenity inside and out. Some of these Bali villas offer health and spa wellness services similar to the sacred bathing ritual.

These Bali villas sacred bath are members of Bali Spa and Wellness Association (BSWA) - a non-profit organization representing Bali’s spa and wellness industry.
  • Villa Yudhistira at Pandawa Beach Villa And Spa
           Pandawa Beach Villas & SPA showcases villa style living accommodation while you experienced the benefit of a spa services.

          Villa Yudhistira, one of Pandawa beach Villas 3 bedroom unit boasts of a private pool, manicured garden, spacious living and dining area with a deluxe suite downstairs as well as 2 ocean view suites with balcony upstairs will provide you a superb view and sea breeze.
  • Villa Simona Oasis Spa
          Villa Simona Oasis Spa is a 5 bedrooms luxury villa that is a dramatic Balinese gateway of carved stone and double doors, leading into an entrance garden bordered on one side by a Palimanan stone wall showcasing a magnificent carving in the design of tropical leaves.

          Conveniently set with a spa that sits on the triangular piece of land at the point where the two rivers meet which is accessed via a little bridge under a pergola dripping in cascading thunbergia, bounded by torch ginger, giant taro leaves and frangipani trees.

          Staying and experiencing the sacred baths in Bali Island will surely bring positive effects and healthy advantages to their guests.

          Health wise - with the traditional Balinese treatments that include Balinese massage, foot baths, body scrubs or masks and flower baths would surely create well-being for your body, mind and soul.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Secret Charisma Of Ricefield Views In Bali

Bali tourist attractions is not only about its endless sandy beaches, wild forests - with its exotic fauna and flora, rich surrounding coral reefs around the coast - that provide good waves to the wildest of waves that will challenge even the most experienced of the surfers, luxury resorts, spas and Bali villas - private and villa for rent, but also, Bali features charming and picturesque ricefields.

Ricefields in Bali have been an enduring part of Balinese religious life, as seen in their veneration of it in a special Hindu-Balinese temple called Ulun Swi or Pura Ulun Siwi temple - the principal temple in Bali dedicated to the welfare of both wet and dry rice fields, and the spirits, which live in the temple, are thought to control the mice and insects such as grasshoppers that periodically infest the fields.

bali villa ricefields

According to the sacred Kutara Kanda Dewa Purana manuscript, the word “Ulun Swi” is derived from the word “ulu” which means “center” or “source” and the word “swi” which means ‘rice field” or “water” - so Ulun Swi temple is the center of rice fields in a certain area - with every ricefield has its own Ulun Swi temple.

An Ulun Swi temple is a place for farmers to ask for fertility and successful harvest - by paying homage to the deity of the land - Ida Bhatara Bhaka Bhumi - so the earth will yield good harvest and insects, mice, birds as well as to prevent other disturbances in damaging the crops.

Balinese rice terraces go back over 2,000 years where it had been carved on steep hill sides and broad, steadily descending mountainsides and constantly extended generation after generation, making these Balinese rice terraces meticulously shaped out of necessity but showcasing a natural scenic attraction to the visiting tourists in Bali.

One of the villas in Bali boasting this ricefield view feature in their villa location and design is Villa Bayad.

VILLA BAYAD

An Ubud Bali Villas, Villa Bayad a spacious, luxurious 4 bedroom villa set in the middle of lush green rice paddies, boasting the magnificent view of Bali’s mighty Mount Agung. The villa is just conveniently located ten minutes north of Bali’s cultural center, Ubud - providing its guests easy access to shops, restaurants and galleries.

Designed by Popo Danes, one of the most renowned architects in Southeast Asia, Villa Bayad is traditionally laid out as a compound, with the 4 bedrooms being in separate houses beside the main house, all connected by flower-covered pergolas. Every room showcases a beautiful vision of the surrounding rice terraces to Bali’s sacred volcano in the horizon.

Boasting of 4 private luxurious bedrooms, two swimming pools - surrounded by an 8000 m2 garden of sweet smelling flowers, lotus-ponds and waterfalls, Villa Bayad guests would surely enjoy the tranquility of nature and the local countryside as well as providing them a chance of experiencing the real Bali aesthetic from the inside - with friendly staff that is guaranteed to cater to their every need.

Villa Bayad in Detail

The 4 spacious air-conditioned bedrooms are all separate houses - differently styled and named after four distinguished locations in Bali: Tenganan, Klung Kung, Ubud and Singaraja. Two of these houses share a private open kitchen and dining bale as well as a private spring water fed plunge-pool and pool deck.

Each house provides a furnished veranda and bathroom complete with shower cabin and a small walled garden with outdoor shower. All bedrooms are equipped with cable-TV and DVD-player, and the beds are dressed with the best quality of cotton bed linen.

The main house likewise boasts of an air-conditioned media room / library with the best of audio- and video-equipment. The spacious living- and dining area opens up to a large veranda, surrounded by flower covered, multi-level fishponds and flanked by two comfortable bales, where you can relax, listening to the sprinkling water and enjoying the beautiful view.

An open, fully equipped kitchen is ready for the staff to prepare your meals on your request - or you can use the kitchen yourself, if you prefer to cook your own meals.