“JAMAHAL Private Resort & Spa” A fine heaven for honeymooners

A honeymoon is the traditional holiday taken by newlyweds (or between two people in an early harmonious period in a relationship) to celebrate their marriage in intimacy and seclusion. Today, honeymoons by Westerners are sometimes celebrated somewhere exotic or otherwise considered special and romantic. A honeymoon can also be the first moments a newlywed couple spends together, or the first holiday they spend together to celebrate their marriage. Planning a honeymoon is a great opportunity for the bride and groom to relax after the wedding. After getting married, most of the time the newlyweds plan to visit a place where they can have enough time to know each other’s likes, dislikes and have lots of fun.

” JAMAHAL Private Resort & Spa” is the ideal romantic and special place for honeymooners. The name JAMAHAL stands for a “precious time” and signifies a fine haven for couples and especially for honeymooners. environmentally friendly and using organic, natural resources for cuisine and spa.

located on the southern tip of Bali in the heart of Jimbaran, less than 400 meters away from the beach of Jimbaran Bay. Upgraded and reopened in March 2006, JAMAHAL has become one of the finest boutique & SPA resorts in Bali.

JAMAHAL’s unique size and the aim to offer an unforgettable and enjoyable stay, serving on a high standard with a smile, are the basis for a truly romantic hideaway in privacy.

HAYMAN Great Barrier Reef

There are so many things to say about Hayman. Hayman Island Resort is a very privileged island situated half an hour from Cairns. The place is awesome. The resort is located on the southerly shore fronted by a sweeping sandy beach and surrounded by 34 acres of lush tropical gardens. Beyond the beach lies an 800-meter-wide sand flat with fringing coral reef that is exposed at low tide, revealing interesting coral formations and an array of marine life.

The Hayman Experience =The Hayman experience is like no other. Australia’s most awarded five-star resort takes guests into an exclusive realm of luxury, relaxation, indulgent dining, leisurely activity, reef adventure, and breathtaking scenery. The Hayman experience begins before you arrive and will linger long after you leave.

Accommodation =Hayman offers elegant resort living in 212 beautifully appointed rooms, suites, penthouses, and a beach villa situated within Retreat, Pool, Lagoon, and Beachfront Wings. Designed to take advantage of the magnificent resort surrounds, all Hayman accommodation features private terraces or balconies. All guests in Hayman suites will be accorded the personal concierge service. Beach Villa and penthouse guests will receive full butler service.

Dining =A selection of sumptuous dining awaits guests on Hayman. Select from one of our superb restaurants or bars, enjoy a Hayman’s Signature Experience, The Chef’s Table, or soak up the relaxed ambience in a unique outdoor island or setting in the nearby reef surrounds.

Leisure & Activities =Hayman invites guests to enjoy a wonderful array of resort and Great Barrier Reef leisure pursuits and activities – whether it be for relaxation, rejuvenation, indulgence or adventure.

SPA =Hayman is the setting for the health and spa experience, Spa Hayman. This acclaimed spa, which has been accredited as a Leading Spa, offers Hayman guests an exclusive array of magnificent treatments and a selection of personally tailored beauty and wellness programs designed to restore and rejuvenate. Enjoy a Hayman Signature Experience, the Ocean Massage.

Weddings & Celebrations = With its spectacular island and Whitsunday vistas, luxurious resort atmosphere and superb reef location, Hayman is the perfect setting for a wedding in paradise, a renewal of vows and a celebration of a special anniversary, or a reward for an individual or team on a great achievement.

Business Events = Award-winning Hayman is the ideal setting for world-class business events. Hayman’s unique resort ambience and inspiring tropical surrounds provide the perfect backdrop for small or large meetings, incentives, and special events, and individual reward programs.

Damai eco-role-model for the region’s resorts

Damai in Lovina, North Bali, has for years been implementing and improving an ambitious environmental programme covering waste treatment, water- and energy conservation, and a detailed manual for organic resort operation. Now the leading resort of North Bali has been chosen to be a role model for other hotels and resorts of the region, and also serve as a field laboratory for new concepts in sustainable resort operation. The regional government in Singaraja has just launched a wide reaching programme for making the North Bali tourism even greener, and Damai is put forth as the example for other resorts on the island.

”The things we do at Damai are fairly low-tech and can easily be adapted by both a family-run losmen and a 50-room hotel. There is no hocus pocus, and the equipment used is mostly locally made, not imported from Basel or Toronto,” says Rory McTiernan, who is the head of Damai’s environmental programme. McTiernan has a university degree in agriculture, and has for decades also been working as an environmental consultant for various industries across the Indonesian archipelago.

”Many of the practices are not only more cost-effective, but often simple and easy to implement, such as sorting the garbage and ensuring proper disposal of waste, although we sometimes need to find alternate ways of recycling the materials, since no institutions exist up here. With the plastic water bottles, for instance, we have put up an open container by the main road where we just put all of them in, and during the day they simply get picked up by locals who need them for something in their business or in the household.”

’As opposed to the South part of the island, tourism has not yet had any harmful impact on the environment up here. North Bali is still untouched, and it is a wise and commendable initiative launched by the local government to keep it that way. We are proud to be chosen as the model resort, and happy that we are allowed to share our experiences to keep Bali green.

”Your mandi is ready, Madam”

Bali is to spa what Paris is to fashion. The serene tropical island is like a trend lab for spa therapies, and the luxurious boutique hotels are at constant work to design new inventive treatments to bring you bodily bliss as well as perfecting the traditional Asian techniques to restore balance in your body’s energies. To spoil yourself with the latest bid for the ultimate in pampering, you should travel to the Damai on the island’s pristine North Coast and ask your villa butler for a ’mandi’.

Mandi is the Indonesian word for bath. In Damai’s version, it is a treatment bath, performed in the luxurious space of your own villa bathroom by one or two of the resort’s experienced therapists. The treatments themselves are centered around the Javanese mandi lulur, the traditional flower bath that is both romantic and utterly enjoyable, combined with massages, body scrubs, aromatherapy, beauty treatments, and manicures. Perhaps combined with servings of champagne, fruits, and teas.

The treatments are created by Made and Sally Wijaya, the husband and wife team who lead the Damai Spa.

Five Star farming:Damai opens own organic farm

Damai in North Bali has long been knicknamed ’Bali’s gourmet retreat’, and the small luxurious resort’s foodie followers have grown to appreciate the organic delicacies being served by the resort’s inspired chefs. For years most of the herbs and vegetables used in the kitchen have been grown in the resort’s own ecological market garden, and diners could gather their appetite on an afternoon stroll through the exotic gardens, while inspecting the ingredients for tonight’s upcoming feast. Now, the resort wil not only grow its own ingredients, but also breed them.

”We really wanted to be even more in control of the quality of the ingredients used in our kitchen,” says the resort’s owner, Nils Normann. ”Especially with selected cuts and varieties of meat, such as pig, rabbit, and duck, we wished to be in full control of all parts of the process before we served it on our tables.”

Which is why the resort’s residents is no longer restricted to the human species, but number both free range pigs, rabbits, pigeons and ducks, as well as more exotic livestock such as frogs and snails (used in the resort’s ominous-sounding but delicious snail soup), and fresh water lobsters, bred in large basins at the bottom of the neighboring valley. All operations are 100% organic.

”We also started this to introduce a more environmentally sustainable operation. All the meat we used before was normally flown in from far-away places to get the best quality, but now we just have to cross the road, and most of the kitchen waste is now used on the farm. Even some of the snails we breed over here are used as food for the lobsters,” says Nils Normann. ”The farm is still new, but soon we will be able to serve our very own bacon, which we will produce in collaboration with an Australian butcher in South Bali. It’s going to be delicious. The only meat where I dont expect a huge difference in quality is with the chicken. The traditional Balinese kampung chickens are all free range and absolutely delicious.”