Pagi · mornings
Canang sari and the morning ritual
Every morning, a small palm-leaf tray of flowers appears at your door. What it is, who makes it, and how to behave around one.
2 October 2026 · 3 min read · Ibu Ketut
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Notes from the valley
Slow pieces by the family about the things around the villas: the fields, the houses, the mornings. Read them before you come, or on the terrace when you are here.
Sawah · the fields
The rice year in the Sidemen valley
Planting, flooding, the green months and the harvest: how the terraces around the villas change through the year, and what you will see when you come.
18 September 2026 · 3 min read · Wayan
Rumah · the houses
How a teak joglo travels from Java
Our joglos were built in Central Java, taken apart beam by beam, carried across the strait and put back together in the rice fields. This is how it is done.
27 August 2026 · 3 min read · Kadek
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Come and see it for yourself
Ten houses in the rice fields of Sidemen, each with its price on the page.