Romantic Villas

As per there site why Hotel why not Villa, when I was planning my vacation this summer I wanted to try Bali this time but was not interested in hotels wanted a change and after some searching I came across this great Bali romantic villas, something I was looking for a change then those traditional hotel stays. They had these two private villas where I stayed with my family and both had private swimming pool with garden, fountain ,flat tv screen TV and international cable, the furniture there gave a really warmly comfortable look.

In addition to that both villas were 20 mins drive away from airport so we reached there comfortably without getting into the city. Also it got gold sand beaches and shops and restaurants just 3 mins from villa so easy excess to things. For safety they had 24 hours security so there was nothing to worry about and be secure and have fun.

I and my family had a great time , if you want the same it is must to travel once in a life destination .

Keeping Bali green:Damai eco-role-model for the region’s resorts

Damai in Lovina, North Bali, has for years been implementing and improving an ambitious environmental programme covering waste treatment, water- and energy conservation and a detailed manual for organic resort operation. Now the leading resort of North Bali has been chosen to be a role model for other hotels and resorts of the region, and also serve as a field laboratory for new concepts in sustainable resort operation. The regional government in Singaraja has just launched a wide reaching programme for making the North Bali tourism even more green, and Damai is put forth as the example for other resorts on the island.

”The things we do at Damai are fairly low-tech and can easily be adapted by both a familiy-run losmen and a 50-room hotel. There is no hocus-pocus, and the equipment used is mostly locally made, not imported from Basel or Toronto,” says Rory McTiernan, who is the head of Damai’s environmental programme. McTiernan has a university degree in agriculture, and has for decades also been working as environmental consultant for various industries across the Indonesian archipelago.

”Many of the practices are not only more cost-efective, but often simple and easy to implement, such as sorting  the garbage and ensuring proper disposal of waste, allthough we sometimes need to find alternate ways of recycling the materials, since no institutions exist up here. With the plastic water bottles for instance, we have put up an open container by the main road where we just put all of them in, and during the day they simply get picked up by locals who need them for something in their business or in the household.”

’As opposed to the South part of the island, tourism has not yet had any harmful impact to the environment up here. North Bali is still untouched, and it is a wise and commendable initiative launched by the local governemt to keep it that way. We are proud to be chosen as the model resort, and happy that we are allowed to share our experiences to keep Bali green.

Five Star farming:Damai opens own organic farm

Damai in North Bali has long been knicknamed ’Bali’s gourmet retreat’, and the small luxurious resort’s foodie followers has grown to appreciate the organic delicacies being served by the resort’s inspired chefs.  For years most of the herbs and vegetables used in the kitchen has been grown in the resort’s own ecological market garden, and diners could gather appetite on an afternoon stroll through the exotic gardens, while inspecting the ingredients for tonight’s upcoming feast. Now, the resort wil not only grow its own ingredients, but also breed them.

”We really wanted to be even more in control of the quality of the ingredients used in our kitchen,” says the resort’s owner, Nils Normann. ”Especially with selected cuts and varieties of meat, such as pig, rabbit and duck we wished to be in full control of all parts of the process before we served it on our tables.”

Which is why the resort’s residents is no longer restricted to the human species, but number both free range pigs, rabbits, pigeons and ducks, as well as more exotic livestock such as frogs and snails (used in the resort’s ominous-sounding but delicious snail soup), and fresh water lobsters, bred in large basins at the bottom of the neighboring valley. All operations are 100% organic.

”We also started this in order to introduce a more environmentally sustainable operation. All the meats we used before was normally flown in from far-away places to get the best quality, but now we just have to cross the road, and most of the kitchen waste is now used in the farm. Even some of the snails we breed over here are used as food for the lobsters,” says Nils Normann. ”The farm is still new but soon we will be able to serve our very own bacon, which we will produce in collaboration with an Australian butcher in South Bali. It’s going to be delicious. The only meat where I dont expect a huge difference in quality is with the chicken. The traditional Balinese kampung-chickens are all free range and absolutely delicious.”