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Situated in the tranquil, coastal environment of northeast Bali, this intimate spa resort provides the perfect holistic retreat.
The peaceful atmosphere, warm sunshine, fresh air and soothing sounds of the ocean lend an ideal environment to de-stress and recharge. At Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali, we introduce you to a holistic approach to wellness that focuses on overall health and happiness.
Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali promises an experience that honours the healing cultures of this region and provides an individual and authentic encounter with Bali.
Our programmes will introduce you to healthy, sustainable life practices, tools and strategies to enhance your health and wellbeing.
During your retreat, you will have the opportunity to explore health through the integration of healthy, wholefood cuisine, rejuvenating spa treatments, movement, mindfulness, hands-on wellness workshops and natural health practices.
Return to yourself
Reconnect with your true essence in this all inclusive Yoga & Wellness retreat. This yoga and wellness retreat was crafted by a woman who has been travelling alone for many years to provide solo women travellers or in the company of friends, a nurturing environment to explore regular and speciality yoga classes, expand the mind through guided meditation, indulge in spa treatments, enjoy opportunities to discover Bali, its people, culture, food and natural wonders, and meet new like-minded friends.
Our Return to Yourself retreat will help you reconnect with your true self and regain your vitality. Be fully engaged in the moment and enjoy every minute with a sense of joyful presence. You will leave feeling relaxed and rejuvenated, ready to face life’s challenges with a wonderful combination of enthusiasm and serenity.
SPA
A Life Programme that supports the path to renewal with an integrated schedule of healthy life practices. More than just a holistic holiday, this Life Programme supports the path to renewal through an integrated schedule of activities.
Spa, healthy cuisine, physical and mental activities are tailored to introduce guests to healthy and sustainable life practices. Along with laying a foundation, guests are taught how to practice these skills long-term and redesign their daily lives.
A complete before and after programme ensures that each guest goes home with an indelible relationship with the Spa Village community.
Accommodation
Effortlessly blending with the island’s natural beauty, the structures of Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali offer luxury accommodation that merges simple Western elegance with traditional Balinese dwellings.
Design is kept sophisticated yet understated with natural Balinese timber accented by neutral fabrics and simple local decorative elements.
Rooms are transformed into exclusive havens; suites are generous with stunning views while the villas are private sanctuaries of peace. Contemplate life on the wide terraces or balconies, take a rejuvenating plunge into the pool or explore at your personal pace.
KAMAR ROOM
Echoing with the gentle traditions of Balinese culture, each room blends exotic grace with modern comfort.
Against the vibrant landscape of the spa resort, rooms are transformed into private havens with each bedroom connecting to marble bathrooms. Beyond the sliding doors of every room lie wide terraces or balconies that open up to views of the tropical gardens.
SURYA AND PURNAMA SUITE
These spacious suites occupy the upper levels of the spa resort. Surya Suite lies close to the luminescent pool while Purnama Suite fronts the lush garden.
Both one-bedroom suites feature a generous living area with stunning balcony views that range from the vibrant bougainvillea and frangipani blooms in the landscaped gardens to the clear blue waters of the Bali Sea.
BARUNA AND SAMUDRA VILLA
Nestled beneath the shade of palm trees, these one-bedroom villas are sanctuaries of peace, each with their own private entry, outdoor bale pavilion and plunge pool with unobstructed ocean views.
The beds in the light and airy bedrooms were lovingly crafted by local artists in a traditional Balinese design with woven ceilings covering the underside of peaked roofs creating an environment of contemporary luxury imbued with serenity.
Dining
With captivating views of the Bali Sea, set above the slate-hued beach, the unique setting of the resort’s only restaurant offers exciting, flavorful regional Balinese and international cuisine.
Resting beneath a thatched roof, the restaurant has no walls, allowing the wind to billow gently through as diners relax and feast on a variety of fresh and tasty cuisine showcasting the best of Bali.
Traditional artwork combines with rattan furniture and teakwood tables created by local craftsmen provide a comfortable dining environment, where the dress code is casual.
WANTILAN
Rotating à la carte menus are presented daily for meals with Indonesian fusion and light Western cuisine selections. The versatile menu is constantly refined, adapting dishes to the catch of the day and the seasonal ingredients sourced from local farmers.
Organic products, as available, are the first choice ingredients. The plethora of indigenous fruits and flavours is the basis for an extensive exotic drinks menu, not to be missed.
We are happy to accommodate your non-medical dietary needs such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, raw and high protein.
Events & celebrations
With the essence of the Balinese culture woven through this resort that is set against a dramatic landscape of sacred mountains and ultramarine waters, Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali provides an excellent backdrop for intimate Balinese beach weddings, gatherings, birthday celebrations, team building and wellness retreats.
Encouraging guests to unplug from the digital world, the resort seeks to focus instead on a banquet of culture, wellness and natural beauty amidst its picturesque coastal setting on the island’s peaceful northeastern shore.
BALINESE WEDDING CEREMONY
Experience a truly beautiful garden ceremony where the magical elements of sun, sea and sand, and the gentle spirituality of Bali with its rich culture come together to create an intimate destination wedding atmosphere.
The reverie weaves in traditional performances and local culinary delights to complete the celebration of your new journey in life together.
Honeymoon
Traditionally in the village three days before a wedding day, the bride and groom would be kept in their families’ home and could not leave the premises. Their mothers would get them ready for their wedding by doing the Traditional Melukat (Body Cleansing).
The treatment begins with Mewangsul (Traditional Balinese Massage) followed by Meodak (Boreh Body Scrub). Then Empehan (Fresh Milk) would be applied to the skin, leaving it feeling soft and moisturised.
The treatment ends with Mersiram Sekar (Floral Bath). This treatment is designed to purify and cleanse the body, mind and spirit.
The authentic Bali
Dawn rises and an indigo curtain of stars is drawn back from the sky, exposing a dramatic landscape of soaring peaks that sweep down across grassy lowlands to the black volcanic sand that kisses the blue of the Bali Sea. You are in Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali, and the day has just begun.
There’s something special about Bali. Almost everyone who comes to the island feels it. Set against a lush landscape of mystical peaks and the vivid blue sea, this peaceful spa resort is a unique Bali escape, tucked away on the tip of the island’s northeastern coast.
Yet there’s a subtle vibrancy that runs through this part of Bali; a barely perceptible shift in time that takes one back to the true Bali. Discover Tembok, where epic stories lurk in its history and a raw natural beauty is evident in its simple landscape.
The gentle spirituality of the island and its rich culture infuses every encounter in this tranquil spa resort. Its philosophy of wellbeing extends beyond the traditional spa treatments available and encompasses every aspect of the resort from activities and lifestyle to architecture and cuisine.
Journey to Tembok
Charting a course through the legends surrounding the northeastern coast of the island where Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali rests, this journey winds through the ancient province of Baling-Kang which arose in the 12th century from the love between a Balinese prince and Chinese scholar’s daughter, Kang Ching Wee.
Their union was opposed by many, and when the priest of Shiva refused to consent to their marriage, the prince abdicated his throne and left with her to form their own kingdom, Baling-Kang.
Passing through the Buleleng regency, the route takes you past Pura Negara Gamburanglayang. A 13th century temple that came to be when the nearby village Kuta Baning served as an ancient trading port.
A place to rest, restock and trade, merchants and sailors from across the seas arrived to find this temple filled with shrines for their different faiths, all side by side within the same sacred ground.
While the once-great province of Baling-Kang no longer exists in the eyes of the government, to the people of Tembok it still endures as the holy places of Baling-Kang continue to be a part of their spiritual constellation of temples, involved in every major religious ritual.
Pura Dalem Balingkang is one of the temples that lie on this spiritual route. Within its walls, shrines reflect both Balinese and Chinese influences. A gentle tribute to a queen who missed her homeland.
A site of some reverence for the Hindu Balinese, the Tirtagangga water palace resides within the Karangasem regency. Tirtagangga translates to ‘water from the Ganges’. Built in the late 40s, while much was destroyed in 1963 by the volcanic eruption at Mount Agung, it has been lovingly restored.
With its lush gardens, bathing pools fed by cool springs and beautifully carved water statues all surrounded by green paddy fields and the outline of the mountains beyond, this water palace remains the legacy of the last king of Karangasem.
Before journey’s end, you approach the village of Tembok, where the resort resides. Once considered the Eastern gate of Singaraja when it was part of the Baling-Kang province, Tembok means ‘the wall’ and still divides the regencies of Buleleng and Karangasem.
Dances for the gods
Balinese dance remains an ancient tradition that forms part of the religious and artistic expression amongst the Balinese people. Dynamic and intensely expressive, Balinese dance conveys a sense of drama and spectacle, some recounting legends, while others revealing slices of life.
A rich variety of dance forms and styles prevail in Bali, each village with its own traditional performance that narrate stories unique to their particular dance troupe and area. Part of their daily lives, Balinese dances are not only performed for people but also to please their deities and ancestral spirits.
The most popular and important dances are the ones performed in praise of the gods and to welcome guests. Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali together with the nearby village of Tembok, would like to share this rich heritage with you.
The Journey to Tembok was conceived as a unique travel journal in collaboration with Chang Fee Ming, a highly regarded self-taught artist, showcasing a collection of moments, a treasure map to places of inspiration where the journey itself is as important as the destination.
THE KECAK
A spectacle of sound and light, flickering torches illuminate a chorus of men, whose voices are the orchestral accompaniment to a dramatic story told in dance. Complex and varied chants echo in sync to swaying movements.
The only other music to rhythmically accompany them are the beats of their palms hitting their chests, thighs or other parts of their bodies. Created in the 1930s, the kecak dance was a collaborative effort between Walter Spies, a German musician and painter, and Wayan Limbak, a Balinese dancer.
They adapted the kecak, originally a trance ritual accompanied by a male chorus, to a drama in dance based on an excerpt from the epic Sanskrit poem, Ramayana. Amidst this living stage of movement and vocals, a storyteller narrates the epic tale that unfolds in dance.
A fragment from the Ramayana, the dance charts the abduction of Sita, the beautiful wife of the god Rama by Rahwana, the lustful evil demon who desires her and the trials and challenges Rama and his brother, Laksamana, must face to ensure her rescue as well as the help they receive from Hanoman, a monkey general and Garuda, the king of all birds.
THE LEGONG
Characterised by intricate finger movements, complicated footwork, expressive gestures and facial expressions, the legong is a refined dance traditionally performed in royal courts by young girls who begin their training from the age of five.
A gamelan orchestra provides the background accompaniment and the two main dancers often also have a third dancer referred to as a condong or attendant.
Her role is similar to that of narrator; she sets the scene, introduces the characters, presents the dancers with their fans and on occasion, plays supporting roles.
The classical legong enacts several traditional stories in dance, all told in an elaborate, stylised pantomime. Typically these stories feature scenes from nature or capture moments in time.
The Manuk Rawa portrays the beautiful and deadly nature of the long-legged wild birds that inhabit the mangroves, while the Oleg Tambulilingan, created by the Balinese dance maestro I Ketut Maria in 1952, is inspired by the spirit of love and set in a flower garden with the dancers as bees pursuing one another from one flower to the next.
Spa village philosophy
Here, the first breath of inspiration is drawn from the stunning scenery. Paradise itself provides the essential ingredients for all our treatments, and healing lore as old as the land is imparted into every encounter.
Promising an experience that honours the healing traditions of the region, each Spa Village delivers an individual and authentic encounter combining the therapeutic properties of natural local ingredients and the healing practices of the area.
Coupling these age-old practices together with modern approaches to health and wellbeing results in a tailored one-of-a-kind experience, delivering award-winning results to our guests. Each Spa Village offers a consistently unique and uplifting opportunity for rejuvenation.
At Spa Village Resort Tembok, Bali, the gentle spirituality of the island weaves through every aspect to provide a unique immersive experience that is the very essence of the Spa Village philosophy.
To preserve the peaceful sanctuary of the Spa Village experience, the resort welcomes children the age of 16 and above, advocates the absence of mobile phones in public areas, a smoke-free environment and no televisions in guest rooms.
Around here
Rich in traditions of music and dance, architecture and religion, and active pursuits in nature, the resort and its surroundings beyond the village of Desa Tembok in Tejakula offer days that can be as full or as leisurely as you choose.
Visit local areas of interest through our designated partners or choose to spend your entire visit within our serene resort with its range of low-key activities held throughout the day. Let the magic of north Bali permeate your life-weary soul and texture it with fulfilling experiences.
