Balinese Dance Performances

One of the many things that you may wish to experience while staying at your Bali Holiday Villa is a Balinese cultural performance, the performance are visual, entertaining and exciting, and can be appreciated by adult and children of all ages. There are numerous dance tropes on the island and many different Balinese dance dramas, most of which have evolved from scared rituals.

A good way to see Balinese dance, drama, or wayang kulit (shadow puppetry), all a accompanied by gamelan music, is to attend on odalan or temple anniversary celebration. This is a lavish commemorating the founding of the temple, and he olidan date varies from one temple to another, you will probably have the opportunity to see one. All you need to do is ask the Villa M Bali team and we will more than happy to find out if there is one happening in the neighbourhood for you to witness. Public performances at various locations are mainly for tourists, but the does not mean they are inferior to genuine temple performances. In fact, some of Bali’s best dancers and musicians participate in tourist performances. The show no longer than 90 minutes and begin on time. Additionally, many of the large hotels in Bali have regularly evening dinner shows. Enjoy !

Bali’s Beaches

One of the advantages of staying at Villa M in Bali is its close proximity to a wide selection of beaches. Here is a guide beaches within minutes drive of your Bali Private Villa rental.

One of the closet beaches to Villa M Bali is Berawa beach near Canggu, for surfers, this offers an exposed reef break with consistent surf. May to October (dry season) is the favoured time for the waves. Reef breaks provide lefts and rights-in fact, the neighbouring Canggu beach presents one of the few right-hand waves on the west cost of Bali. The simple warungs (eateries) next to the beach house at Echo beach are all surfer to hangouts.

The famous Kuta beach sweeps for six kilometers along the southwest cost. Renowned for its legendary sunsets and surf breaks, the beach is the venue of many beaches games, contests and musical performances.

Sanur beach features soft white sand and a lagoon that makes it an ideal family destination, good swimming and snorkeling, with a mixture of traditional village life and tourist facilities.

The Crescent shaped beach at Jimbaran is unspoilt and tranquil, and the sand is soft and golden. The entrance to the bay is blocked by unbroken coral reef, which can be traversed only by the very small jukung fishing boats; so although the calm water is not suitable for surfing, it is a safe haven for swimming.

The white sand beach at Nusa Dua is ideal for family beach, while neighbouring Nusa Dua specialise in water sports. Crystal water makes for excellent snorkeling and the wave on the northern and the southern part of Nusa Dua are great for surfing.

The surf breaks on the bukit peninsula are the most thrilling and popular in Bali and the beaches are very beautiful with soft white sand.

Bali’s Healing Plants

For hundreds of years the Balinese have used a wide range of native plants, herbs and spices for therapeutic, traditional healing and health enhancing purposes. Along the roadsides and within the beautiful gardens of Bali’s holiday villas you will see numerous fruit trees, including bananas, coconuts, papaya, passion fruit, mangoes, avocados and jack-fruit. The young leaves of the avocado tree are a cure for hypertension, and the papaya is great source of vitamins. The fleshy papaya fruit aids digestion and helps cure constipation, while its sap is an anti-toxic used for wasp and scorpion stings.

Indigenous herbs, spices and healing plants can be found growing in the rice fields surrounding Villa M Bali and they are all commonly used in Balinese cooking. Galangal root, for example, is one of 20 different kinds of ginger found in Bali and the flavor is very hot; it can be used internally for a cough syrup and, externally if rubbed on to the skin, it prevents itching and is effective anti-fungal agent. Turmeric is natural antiseptic, kangkung (water spinach) is used to help prevent insomnia, and red hibiscus flowers are used for pink food colouring.

Villa M Bali is located in the close-to-nature area of Umalas in Bali. You will have privileged insight to the everyday rural life of Bali.

Outdoor Activities in Bali

Bali presents a wealth of outdoor activities for all ages, form sea sports to golf, horse riding and bird watching to adventure tour companies, offering exciting excursions such river rafting, mountain cycling, jungle trekking and 4-wheel-drive expeditions. While you are staying in Bali, you may wish to indulge in some of the following :

Surfing : Bali is renowned as one of the great surfing meccas of the world, offering over 20 top quality breaks. The peak surf season is April through October when the southeast trade winds blow offshore and the full force of the solid southern ocean swell hit the reefs around Kuta and the Bukit Peninsula. The closest surf beach to Villa M Bali is just ten minutes away to Canggu.

Diving : Bali is the ideal location for learning to dive or diving for pleasure among some of the world’s finest tropical reefs. The water is warm and the Marine life abundant.

Golf : All of Bali’s spectacular golf courses are open to non-members. Just 15 minutes from Villa M to reach Le Meredien Nirwana at Tanah Lot, is the one of the best golf course in Asia.

Horse Riding : The Umalas equestrian centre, 2 kilometer from Umalas Villa in Bali, offers horse riding adventures through rice fields, villages, and along the beach.

The Innovative Interiors of Bali Private Villa

Bali’s private luxury villas have been designed by some of the most highly acclaimed architects in the world. It is only fitting, therefore, that the interiors should be of a standard to match. Some are furnished with Javanese antiques and Dutch-inspired teak-wood furniture, often embellished with elaborate and whimsical hand-carvings. There may be oriental rugs on the floors and local artwork on the walls, complemented by objects d’art and textiles from all over the Indonesian archipelago. Other properties, such as Villa M Bali, present a more contemporary pictures with stylish, modern furnishings and accessories, beautiful fabrics, Indonesian artefact’s and colorful paintings.

It is interesting that very few of the products are imported, most of the exquisite items that you see featured in prestigious magazines and captioned “Bali Style” are more than likely to be the collaboration of top international designers and skilled Balinese craftsman, and therefore available from Bali’s classy home-ware shops, which themselves are often suggestive of the softly-lit interior of an elegant private villa in Bali. Even if the home that you are in the process of furnishing is on another continent, there is now a fine choice of innovative interior stores in Bali from which to purchase outstanding world class products.

Let the interiors of Villa M Bali be your inspiration.