An expert guide to the best spa hotels in Bali, featuring the best places to stay for hot stone massages, body scrubs, hydrotherapy, reflexology, Ayurvedic treatments and Balinese healing rituals, in locations including Ubud, Seminyak and Canggu.
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An expert guide to the best spa hotels in Bali, featuring the best places to stay for hot stone massages, body scrubs, hydrotherapy, reflexology, Ayurvedic treatments and Balinese healing rituals, in locations including Ubud, Seminyak and Canggu.
Kathryn Phelan won £250 in this weeks’ Just Back travel writing competition for her account of fending off an unwelcome visitor in Bali.
This is one of the most anticipated and indulgent holidays you’ll ever take, so naturally expectations are high. Once-in-a-lifetime experiences such as champagne picnics on uninhabited islands, diving with whale sharks and staying in over-water villas with their own chef tend have long lured happy couples. But now action and adventure are a top priority for newlyweds who have already taken sun, sea and sand holidays together numerous times – anything from gorilla encounters in Uganda to tandem skydiving in New Zealand. And twin-centre honeymoons – city and spa, safari and sand – are also very popular. Some things never go out of honeymoon style, though: a big bed, amazing views, fantastic food and top-notch service.
The moment I spotted the AK-47, I realised this wasn’t going to be your average five-star hotel excursion. My guide, Sowath, explained that the rifle slung over the shoulder of the military policeman on our patrol was a (working) relic from the Pol Pot era. Sowath, carrying a machete himself, is a ranger with the Wildlife Alliance, a non-profit organisation set up to protect the animals of Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom National Park. The area spans more than a million acres and forms part of one of Southeast Asia’s largest intact rainforests, home to creatures threatened by poachers, including Asian elephants, gibbons, civets and clouded leopards. Poaching is big business here, hence the military presence to protect us.
The whimsical brainchild of hotel designer Bill Bensley is theatrically inspired by a Cambodian jungle safari with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the late Sixties. It’s tastefully eccentric — curios such as antique sextants, carousel horses and nautical lanterns can be found in the al fresco restaurant and bar, while leather finishing, brass, and dark woods feature throughout, adding a masculine, Hemingway-esque aesthetic. Embracing minimal intervention, tents have been built without cutting down trees and suspended on stilts to allow migratory movements below.
Gerri Gallagher takes a trip around the new generation of luxury hotels in Cambodia, combining the beauty of the country's ancient culture with the very latest in food, spas, and adventurous activities.
1. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food." 2. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was
