Aneka Lovina Villa & Spa boasts of 24 Standard rooms and 35 Villas that is designed in thatched-roof Balinese style with beautiful surrounding view combines with top class services and amenities as well as warm and friendly staff. The guest rooms and villas are equipped with air-conditioning, IDD telephone satellite TV, refrigerator, shower bath & bath tub, hot & cold running water, mini bar and private balcony.

This Lovina villa provides facilities and services such as spa with assortment natural relaxation and treatments for health and beauty, swimming pool with poolside bar, private beach, beach view restaurant and bar, meeting facilities, bicycle rental, safe deposit boxes, Wi Fi, baby sitting service, coffee shop, hotel/airport transfer, car park, concierge, laundry service/dry cleaning, room service, facsimile, money exchange, lobby, reception, luggage storage, garden, kid’s pool, water sports, cots/cribs, high chairs, kids playground and interconnecting rooms.

Grand City Inn offers highly appointed guests rooms in several types : Deluxe
Room, Suite and President Suite. Deluxe Room has mini bar, 29′ flat screen TV,
air conditioning, hot and cold running water, IDD phone, free mineral water,
tea and coffee maker, satellite TV and shower bath room. Suite Room and
President Suite have mini bar, plasma TV, air conditioning, hot and cold
running water, IDD phone, satellite TV, and bath tub. There is a private
living room Special for Suite and President Suite.

Grand City Inn provides facilities and services such as swimming pool, kids
pool, meeting facilities, Wi Fi, restaurant, bar, concierge, fax, 24 hour room
services, baby sitting, laundry service/dry cleaning, lobby, hotel/airport
transfer, parking facilities and reception

Waka Nusa offers 10 fully air-conditioned bungalows that are designed using natural material such as thatched roofs, earth pigmented wall, rendering fine wood joinery and traditional decoration. The bungalow is equipped with air-conditioning, balcony / deck, king-sized bed, mini-bar, non-smoking rooms,
private toilet and bath, sandals / slippers, umbrellas, mosquito net, sofa bed, reading table and bathroom completes with bathrobe, bathroom amenities and standing shower. The guest of Waka Nusa also entitled to enjoy complimentary fruit basket, complimentary drinking water, complimentary American breakfast, welcome drink and cool towel on arrival and daily afternoon tea/coffee with Balinese cakes.

Waka Nusa also provides facilities and services including: swimming pool, 12 hours reception, laundry service, 16 hours room service, poolside service, beach club restaurant, bar, doctor on call (24 hours), safety deposit box at front desk, plug c type (220v), beach side barbecue area, 24hr room services, bicycle rental, safe deposit boxes, wifi, baby sitting, laundry service/dry cleaning, money exchange, lobby, reception, private beach. Jacuzzi, health spa, water sports, child’s menu, baby-sitting service and child’s pool.

Waka Shorea puts great emphasis on harmonious co-existence of the resort and
environment by incorporating natural material to the building such as dressed
slate; tiles; smooth unpainted wood; soft homespun fabrics; intricately worked
copper; fragrant alang-alang grass roofing; natural bamboo; rough cut stone;
flowers and foliage. Waka Shore offers fourteen lanais and two villas. The
lanai has King size bed and balcony while the villa has a King size bed, 1
living room (convert to bed room) and an open Bale traditional pavilion. Waka
Shorea boasts of a beach restaurant with natural setting, a natural swimming
enclosure fringe the wide bay, private beach, barbeque area on the beach and
other eco-friendly facilities and top class services that will turn your stay
into a beautiful and exciting experience.

Amed Beach Resort has four deluxe rooms with stunningly beautiful ocean and
garden view. Each room has private balcony, queen four poster beds, en-suite
bathroom with hot water and air-conditioning. Rooms are large enough to
accommodate families and additional bed can be provided on request. Upstairs
Bedroom has semi-open air bathroom with shower.

Amed Beach Resort, for your enjoyment, also provides swimming pool with
poolside bar, child pool, private beach, restaurant, bar, 24-hour room service,
diving activities, snorkeling activities, Balinese cultural show (subject to
schedule), car park, concierge, lobby and reception.

In Bali, becoming blacksmiths is not a matter of skill. Although you can learn how to make a steel implement, you cannot be called a blacksmith. The only way to become a blacksmiths is to be born in a Pande family.

The smiths in Bali are called, generally, pande, the most influential among them being blacksmiths: pande wesi, or pande besi. The historical importance of their craft, particularly in the shaping of the magically charged and (unfortunately) very practical kris daggers, gave this group of low caste artisans a status that seemed to fall outside the usual dictates of caste. The Pande is a small, but very tightly knit clan group in Bali. Although the Pande clan did not exist, even in the earliest days the pande has considerable political power, including the right to seat representatives on the governing bodies of the desa (village). To maintain their position of prestige, the smiths kept their techniques secret and saw it in that marriage would take place only within their own professional group. And today, this clan is still fiercely proud, the most conservative in its ranks refusing the religious authority of the Brahmana priest – some, claiming ancestry preceding Hinduism, even creating a sort of hybrid religion of their own.
The Pande clan inscribed its own history in a lontar, a formal religious document, called the Prasasti Sira Pande Empu. Many clan groups wrote lontars, during this time to codify, and amplify, their right to status greater than that of mere Sudra. These lontars, which are still read today, offers history that are vivid, exaggerated, and full of hubris. The Pande’s is no exception.

The Prasasti Sira Pande Empu outlines a mythology that seems to predate Hinduism. It describes that the creation of Brahma, but Brahma here appears less like that of Hindu triad, and more like the Vedic god of fire, Agni. Emphasizing fire, of course, make sense for the Pande, who have always considered fire as their special instrument, from which much of their power was derived. And yet the Pande adopted the color red, which is always associated with the Trimurti god of Brahma. The Pande temple at Pura Besakih is decorated red. Pande men often wear red articles of clothing, such as udeng (head band), and saput (waist cloth), when participating ceremonies.

In the lontar, Empu Pradah is proclaimed the first head of Pande clan. The document also includes a declaration of independence of sorts. It clearly states that the Brahmanas obtained their knowledge and power from the Pande, and establishes the Pande as older that the Brahmanas and of greater power and prestige. It also stipulates that Pandes are not permitted to obtain holy water from pedandas because, in affect, the Brahmana priests are the younger brother of the Pandes, and for that reason should be subservient to them. The lontar also includes various warnings to other caste-less people that they should not follow the teachings of Brahmanas and Ksatriyas, but rather emulate the Pandes.

Some of the Pande can follow the regular ritual of Balinese Hinduism as dictated in general Balinese scripture, obtaining their holy water from pedandas, praying at regular temples, and observing the routines that are followed by about everyone else in Bali. But the conservative Pande do not obtain the holy water from pedandas, maintaining that they are senior to the Brahmanas, not vice versa. Moreover, some of them a very pronounced anti pedanda bias. This has caused some problems. The most conservative Pande areas have their own temples and their own pemangkus – lay Pande priest – who officiate at special Pande ceremonies and who make their own holy water for use only by Pande people.

If the government and private company officials has Kerta Kawat temple a place for requesting advancement in career, then the traders and businessmen has Melanting temple for requesting prosperity and good luck.

As a matter of fact there are hundreds of Melanting temples that create a network all over the island of Bali. Each traditional market in Bali has its own Melanting temple (temple of trader) from which the traders and businessmen ask for fortune. The core of this Melanting temple network is main Melanting temple that is located in Banyupoh village, Buleleng regency, around 5 km from Pemuteran.

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Taman Ayun temple was the royal temple of Mengwi Kingdom that survived until 1891 when it was conquered by the neighboring kingdoms of Tabanan and Badung. The name Taman Ayun means beautiful garden. This temple was built by the King of Mengwi, I Gusti Agung Anom in 1634. The date of construction is expressed on a carved door with chronogram reads ‘Sad Bhuta Yaksa Dewa‘ means 1634 AD. The temple has been renovated in 1949 and in 1972 all black fiber roofs were renewed, the last in 1976 was built the pavilion tower called ‘Bale Kulkul‘.

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This temple is situated on the outskirt of Bangli’s capital town. A yellow sign on the side of the road will give you the direction to the temple. Pura Dalem Jawa is surrounded by a pond filled with water lilies and colorful fish. Seeing from outside the temple, this temple is just like any other temple in Bali but if we step our feet on the inner courtyard of the temple, we can find a unique structure which differentiate this temple from the rest of the temples in Bali. This structure is a shrine in form of a langgar (a small version of mosque). This structure is not function as a mosque but as matter of fact a Hindu shrine in form of Muslim praying place.

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Tirta Luhur Chapel is an excellent wedding venue that is situated on a top of a spectacular cliff overlooking the vast Indian Ocean. The stunning beauty of the surrounding can be enjoyed through the glass paneled wall of this chapel, instilling the beauty of nature into your wedding moments.

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