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Exclusive Forest Lodge
This unique world-class destination resort perfect
for executive incentive travel can proudly take
its place among the great forest lodges of the world-
the Tiger Tops of Nepal, the Matla Manzi of Africa
and the Bandhavgarh of India.
The Taman Wana is in equal parts an exclusive jungle
lodge, a five-star boutique hotel and a mountain
retreat. Its name “garden forest” is
an apt description of the hotel’s calm and
peaceful surroundings above a cool, scenic lake
in Bali’s remote wilderness.
Though enveloped by forests, the Taman Wana is far
from primitive. The principle clientele is the executive
travel market. This explains the transcendent menu,
the exceptional amenities and a helipad in the middle
of rice paddies which makes the resort a mere 20
minute flight to Bali’s international airport.
In this realm of verdant valleys visitors can give
them-selves over to the rejuvenating powers of nature.
Although there may be little inclination to do so,
guests may remain as close as they desire to the
world via satellite TV, computer, internet, fax
and well-stocked library. The staff can also organise
meeting venues and creative small group activities.
The Taman Wana is unfailing in its support of the
environment as well as the local communities of
West Bali, a large part of which is occupied by
the Bali Barat National Park. Unquestionably Bali’s
richest ecosystem, the 777-square- kilometer reserve
lies just 20 minutes away by car or one hour by
foot.
Lying on the border of a major national park, the
jagged peaks of Klatakan and Batugenteng tower on
the horizon and lend the location an untamed atavistic
beauty. All that you see before you is closed to
development. Stars crowd out the sky at night. Within
easy reach are primary canopied rainforests and
the Bali Starling Recovery Project, a captive breeding
facility that protects one of the world’s
rarest birds.
Eight circular-shaped villas hark back to a form
of architecture first carried to the island by pre-Hindu
settlers from Polynesia over one thousand years
ago. Each of the structures, built of gorgeous teakwood
and set at different levels and angles, exude a
character all their own.
The resort’s cuisine is first class - the
vegetables are crisp, the beer cold, the cellar
of impeccable pedigree, the service brisk and the
smiles sincere. Local seafood, supplied daily from
the coast, is sumptuously fresh. Diners may choose
an outdoor pavilion, tables set around the infinity
swimming pool or the dining room inside the largest
cone-shaped thatched roofed structure on Bali. |
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