Cozy Wayan Sueta's Garden Villa 1

Huge Open Bathroom

Cozy Wayan Garden Villa’s are also located with the family compound within a lush tropical garden filled with fruiting trees and exotic flowers. The first garden Villa was completed in January 2013 and the second Garden Villa is due to be completed in March.

The Villa’s are craftsman built with your own private deck area with pergola roof where you can enjoy your breakfast, a quiet evening drink or just sit and admire the beauty of the gardens and jungle.

Villa one has one large bedroom with king size bed, large storage cupboard and wardrobe, luxury bathroom with hot water shower complete with river stones and ferns growing within the shower walls.

Hot and cold outdoor shower

Staying with us will allow you to experience a life in small village as well as great outdoor's activities such as hiking and biking through green paddy field and local villages.

We are located in the middle of the local farm that are rich of coconut, cocoa and many other tropical fruit trees. there is a beautiful river named Ayung only 15 minutes walk from our home. A beautiful rice paddies is only 5 minutes walk and you can have a fabulous walk in the morning or afternoon along this quiet paddy field enjoying the great scenery and get a great view over the mountain range of Bali as well as the great Volcano of Mount Agung, the most sacred to the Balinese Hindu. The well known Sangeh Monkey forest, Elephent Park, White water rafting are only 15 minutes drive from our house.

Lush tropical garden of many different kind of Heliconia, Banana trees, fruit trees, cocoa, coffee surround the villa and beautiful pathways of river stone around the property for you to walk around to enjoy the garden.

Set in a very lush tropical garden

The villa is built on a 2100 square meters property including the main family compound.

Even if there are not any public transportation around us but we could organize any transportation for you outing as well as organizing you with great tours services to visit some of the best part of Bali.

Wayan Sueta Guest House

Our little wooden house is built in our family compound with stunning outdoor shower. Staying with us will allow you to experience a life in small village and it is offering you a great outdoor's activities such as hiking and biking through green paddy field and quiet villages.

We are located in the middle of the local farm that are rich of coconut, cocoa and many other tropical fruit trees. there is a beautiful river named Ayung only 15 minutes walk from our home. A beautiful rice paddies is only 5 minutes walk and you can have a fabulous walk in the morning or afternoon along this quiet paddy field enjoying the great scenery and get a great view over the mountain range of Bali as well as the great Volcano of Mount Agung, the most sacred to the Balinese Hindu.

The house is surrounded by our rich tropical garden with beautiful plants and flowers.

My European Trip!

I never believed it that I would have the opportunity to visit Europe and It has been such an overwhelming trip for me to be able to see the European Countries even if I have been only in Germany and Holland but It has been giving me such a great impression about Europe. I will not write much at the moment but love to share some pictures that I have taken during my visit here in Europe.

I flew to Europe with Qatar Airline from Denpasar to Singapore and stop over in Doha Airport before flying to Munich, Germany. It was surely a long trip and very tiring.

After arriving in Germany, I went straight to a little town named Konigsbrunn where I have spent my first 2 weeks of my visit in Europe. It is a beautiful little town which has so much farms around and also some beautiful lakes that are easily to be visited by Bicycle. 

Eat Pray Love

I have red the book, I have seen most of the places where the story took place and have met some of the people  who were big part of the Bali chapter. They have made a movie out of the story and some of the shooting was in my village and I really can not wait to see the whole movie.

When you look on the above picture, it was exactly the road that I drive through almost everyday and enjoying the beauty of that  green paddy field. Sometimes, I would drive through early in the morning when the sun rises behind the coconut trees reflecting its light on the flooded field, sparkling on the morning dew on the green grass along the dike of the paddy field. But there is always be a fabulous sunset that I would be pampered with in some of my days driving through this tranquil village with its stunning panorama over rice paddies and sacred mountains in a distance.

Mr. Ketut Liyer who was in the book Eat Pray Love is a famous Balinese healer around Ubud and  I have known since 1996 when I used to accompany a group from the US to do palm reading and also getting the magic drawing. He is such a great man and I always enjoyed myself being there and listening to his funny English that always made our group were laughing every time that he was speaking to us. Oh well, I should had gotten my palm reading at the first time that I met him but I never did which I am feeling sorry about it now. I wish that I did...

A few weeks ago I was taking my Aussie friend there visiting his home but It was so unfortunate for us as he was in the hospital. He has been complaining about his health just like what it was written on the book. I am just hoping that he would be home soon and could give his service again for the visitors as surely there are a lot of them coming for a visit everyday since people red the book.

The Sun is still shining

It has been quit a while that I haven't written anything on this blog. Life has been keeping me busy and there have been so much going on in my life that has taken so much of my limited energy. Sometimes, I feel so tired and not really eager to go on and wish that my time is up at this moment. It would be a lot easier as I am not sure what I would expect to go further. It is all about the same from day to day and it seems that it is not worth it. It feels like it is just a waste of time.

When I see the sun rising on the east, it seems that it is going to give me a better hope for a better day and at least that I can still feel the warmth of its light that is shining down through the foliage around my little home.

Maybe, I should try to go on and feel the warmth of its light to energize me to accomplish my tasks that has been given to my temporal life. A life that is filled with disappointment, depression, failure and frustration. Even though, I often think that those are the things that teach me to be mature and giving me a certain value of my life.

As long as the sun is shining on me, I know that I have to live on and do my best.

Listen to my heart that I am missing you

When I am laughing above all the happiness
When I am crying for all the sadness
I always need you to be there with your consciousness
I want you to be in my remembrances

As long as I can breath
I can walk through my path
I would always adore you my angel
Even if I have no idea anymore where you are now

Listen to my heart that I am longing for you
When I am trying to change everything
When I am mourning over my failure
Listen to my heart that I am missing you

105 Days ceremony for the Baby

It is a ceremony that is held 3 months after the baby born which is called Nyambutin in Balinese. It is the first time for the baby to touch the ground and also get his name.

Day Of Silence, Nyepi Day in Bali

Happy New Year 1930!

Every religion or culture all over the world has their own way to define and celebrate their new year. For the Balinese Hindu we also have our New Year which is called Nyepi, A Day of Silence.
Nyepi is a day to make and keep the balance of nature. It is based on the story of when King Kaniska I of India was chosen in 78 A.D. The King was famous for his wisdom and tolerance for the Hinduism and Buddhism societies. In that age, Aji Saka did Dharma Yatra (the missionary tour to promote and spread Hinduism) to Indonesia and introduce the Saka year.
The ceremonies and celebrations before and after Nyepi day:
Melasti or Mekiyis or Melis (three days before Nyepi)Melasti is meant to purify the pratima ( Temple Effigies) or arca or pralingga (statue), with symbols that help to concentrate the mind in order to become closer to God. The ceremony is aimed to clean all nature and its content and also to take the Amerta (the source for eternal life) from the ocean or other water resources (lake, river, Natural Spring etc). Three days before Nyepi, all the effigies are carried in a colorful procession to the nearby natural springs, lake or the sea for purification before they are place on the Bale Agung (Great Pavilion) in the Village temple. The villagers come and bring their own offerings for prayers every single day until the New Year’s Eve where the effigies will be returned to the temple that they are belong to.

Tawur Kesanga (the day before Nyepi)Exactly one day before Nyepi, all villages in Bali hold a large exorcism ceremony at the main village cross road, the meeting place of demons. The villagers which are dominated by the younger generation including children construct and build the Ogoh-ogoh (Terrifying Effigies). They are carried in a parade for warding off the evil spirits from their neighborhood. It is symbolizing the exorcism. The Parade is held all over the island of Bali after the sun goes down. Bleganjur, a Balinese Musical Instruments are played to accompany the parades.

Nyepi ( Highlight of the Festival)On the Nyepi day itself, every street on the island is quiet, nobody doing their normal daily activities. There are only Pecalangs (traditional Balinese security man) who controls and checks for street security. Bali is shut down for 24 hrs, it is including our only International airport, Denpasar. Nyepi is a day of silence, fasting and meditation.

Ngembak Geni (the day after Nyepi)Ngembak is the day after Nyepi is the opposite of Nyepi Day, where the island’s life is back to normal with cars and people on the streets. Everyone go out and socialize.
From the religious and philosophy point of view, Nyepi is a day of self introspection and contemplation to decide on values of the sense of humanity, love, patience, kindness, etc., that should be kept forever.

The Beauty of Bangle Village - East Bali

A small rough road off the main street at Amed Village leads us to a small village named Bangle. It surrounded by mountain with its beautiful terrace field on its side. Mots of the people are still practicing traditional rice farming, ploughing the field helped by the cows and all the planting and harvesting are done by hand. The villagers are still living in a very traditional ways. The whole day they would spend it on the field doing their farming to produce food for their family. Kids are diligently helping their parents doing a little work on the field or cutting the grass for their cattle.


Women are patching water from the nearby natural spring and carry it home on their head for cooking and drinking water, picking up fire woods as most of the cooking are still done in traditional wooden stoves.


The village life is absolutely a contrast of the life in Amed which has been so much different over

the last few years because of the tourism facilities development where its people have been adopting much of the western influences and modernisation, but the traditional way of life that's still exist in this village is truly offering much more peace and harmony to our spirit, a peaceful and tranquil place for the body and soul.

Little girl carrying a piece of firewood to home from the field.
Girls are busy cutting the grass to feed the cows that are used to plough the field for growing rice.
Two little girls are carrying the grass on their head, heading home.
Grandmother carrying stack of firewoods and green for the pig.

Man busy ploughing the field for growing rice, helped by the cows.
Girls are cutting the grass along the irrigation canals along the paddy field for the cows.

Spider

We live in a very tropical country and its richness of flora and fauna making us familiar with many wild animals live around us. One of a kind that we can see easily on Bali is spider and I love to share with you on how we can have such a great fun with spider. It is a friendly one, very harmless and it is even eatable if we want to call it a very special delicacy.

I often invite my clients to have their photographs taken with one of them as they look so great in the picture. You can have it on your face, body, hand, etc and he is going to be just friendly friend of us.

Please have a look at some of the great pictures below for references, and I am waiting you to have your own photographs taken with any size of the spider when you would have time to visit Bali.

Natural Bubbles

When I was a child, by living in a small farming village there was not much to do to have fun except playing around our farming village and making toys out of the anything that grow around us. We have many castor trees that normally grow along the fences of our farms. None of us was having any detergent to make bubble at the time as it was very expensive and our parents will not allow us to use it for playing and having fun with it. We love making bubble and we are using the sap of the castor trees to create our bubble and we had much fun making our own bubble with the sap of the tree as there are so much growing in our village so we never run out of it in making our bubbles.

We just picked the stem of the leaf and broke it, but still having a little bit of the skin of the stem left to create the little hole where we can blow the sap to create the bubbles. From one stem we can create hundreds of bubbles but it depends on how good that you broke it and how good that you blow it.

If you will ever visit Bali, let me teach you making your own bubbles from the castor tree’s sap and you are going to have lots of fun. I often teach my tours clients to make their own bubbles and they are all having great fun.

I love to demonstrate my bubble's making from the sap of the Castor oil Trees. It is more fun than using any soap or detergent.

Ubud Cremation - September 07, 2007

It is the Bade of Puri Carangsari Royal Cremation in 2005

These two pictures are the Bade which was devoted to the last queen of Ubud, the grand royal cremation on July 24th, 2004.

People are starting to rush into the center of Ubud Village to witness another royal cremation for a member of the Ubud Royal family. It was a woman who died and is being cremated today.
The cremation tower was about 90 feet tall and there were also couple wooden sarcophagi that were built in the shape of a black wooden bull.

Thousands of tourists and locals were coming to witness the grand cremation even if it was a bit sunny and hot today but they were all so excited to see the procession. I was hanging around the palace for about 4 hours to wait for the ceremony to start. It was around 1.30 PM, when they started to lift the tower to a bamboo ladder for the purpose of placing the coffin into a platform at around the middle height of the tower itself. The crowed was flocking into the area around the tower to get a close look at the people who were carrying the body onto the tower. There are three men from the royal family sitting next to the coffin all the way to the cemetery ground where they are going to cremate the body. The tower was carried by hundreds of men, and because of the weight of the tower, the procession moved slowly in between thousands of spectators who flooded the street all the way to the cemetery ground.

A couple of fire trucks kept following behind the tower to spray water to the carriers of the tower to keep them cooler as the heat was not only coming from the sun but also coming from all the people who were flooding the street telephone and electric workers have taken away all the wires that were crossing the street to allow the tall tower to go through, they got the tower to the cemetery ground and people were taking the coffin off the tower to place it on the wooden bull where it is going to be blessed with the final blessing and ceremony before they start to light the fire to get the whole thing to burn into ashes. The tower was burnt separately from the body which was creating a huge flame that spread a tremendous heat around the graveyard.
Short, it was quite a spectacle for everyone who was there to witness this rare ceremony.

The tower is moving slowly to the cemetery ground

The lit the fire on the wooden bull where the bidy is placed.

Placing the body on to the tower
Procession starts

Men bringing the ceremonial things and the coffin onto the tower
The tower slowly moves

Nine layers of roof-Symbol of the heaven
Wooden Bull
Moving the tower closer to the bamboo lather
Black Lembu-wooden bull.

View of the Bade (cremation Tower)from a distance
Backside of the Bade with a picture of Bhoma (Son of the earth)