Why it's holistic
- Bamboo and antique teak houses, a spring-fed pool beside the river, edible gardens and rice paddies that the hotel says are regenerating the land keep guests close to the ground.
- Practitioners are brought in on request: the hotel says it can arrange acupuncturists, yoga instructors, osteopaths, homeopaths and sound-bowl practitioners, and massage services are on offer.
- The hotel says everything is built in the spirit of originality and ecological mindfulness.
- The owners live next door, and the hotel describes its love for the land as unwavering.
About
Bambu Indah began in 2005 as an "accidental hotel": eleven antique Javanese bridal homes, collected on the owners' travels and set beside their home outside Ubud for friends and family. It has since grown, slowly, to 24 houses, mixing antique teak homes with open-air bamboo houses, many designed with the Ibuku studio, on the Sayan Ridge above the Ayung River. A spring-fed pool sits beside the river, and edible gardens, an underground mushroom farm and regenerated rice paddies, which supply all the rice served to guests, cover the land. Guests can walk the river to the paddies and a banyan tree the hotel says is 500 years old, join a bird walk, or ask the hotel to arrange yoga instructors, acupuncturists, osteopaths and other practitioners. Ubud is about 15 minutes away by car.
