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High up on the hillside of Nusa Dua area, overlooking the Indian Ocean and walking distance away from the beach is The Balé.
The modern resort made up of only 20 private pavilions with private pool is truly original in all its aspects but especially in it’s design, contemporary and minimalist but yet with some Indonesian elements.
For those seeking something else than the usual Spa, here at The Balé, travelers have the opportunity to rejuvenate their bodies, expand their minds and spend quality time with a partner.
The Balé is
just located walking distance (5 minutes) from Geger beach, a nice white and
clean beach where the tide is comfortable for Surfing and mostly guests coming
starting from the beginning of June until the end of September.
People from
other areas in
Unfortunately,
snorkeling is not possible here but in Tanjung Benoa, only 7 minutes drive away
from the resort. There guests can practice snorkeling, water sports and other
activities. The resort also has a private beach club nearby the property where
guests can spend quality time with their partners. F&B are also available
our beach club.
As part of our philosophy, the Spa provides a wide selection of treatments in well-designed treatment rooms complimented with Sauna, a Steam Room and Whirlpool with garden and water features. A complete modern Gym is also located next to the Spa.
Galleria Nusa Dua (well known shopping mall in the area) is only 5 minutes drive from the resort while there are several shops and traditional market nearby the property, at only 10 minutes walking distance.
Free transfers within Nusa Dua area are available for the guests 24 hours / daily.
The Spa, in line with the resort, is designed with water lanes that accentuate clean lines mixed with blonde Yogja stone. In order to reach the balance in spiritual dimension we are also working on meditation, yoga or simply focusing on breathing techniques that offer physical and psychological benefits in one.
Extension to the health and beauty treatments available at the Spa is spent solely to achieve one's self-fulfillment and healing of the body, mind and spirit.
Wherever possible, we use organic food, grown locally using sustainable and responsible techniques. Wide selection of items is available at the gourmet restaurant, 'FACES' located by the main pool, which features an open kitchen.
The food offers a balanced menu with light and contemporary cuisine thoughtfully prepared by our team led by our Executive Chef, Ken Gomes.
The Balé fully brings to life the Body, Mind & Spirit philosophy of Sanctuary Resorts.
“The Luxury Resort where adults choose to balance their body,
mind and spirit in the privacy of their own pool Villa”
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SOUTH PACIFIC
From: Opionated Traveller – Truth in Travel
VANUA LEVU AND TAVEUNI:
They call it
Many international travellers are familiar with the glamorous resorts of
the Coral Coast of Fiji's main
Unfortunately, most miss the persuasive and insidious charms of the
northeastern part of the archipelago. Eco-tourism and "soft" adventure
seem to be the current sweetheart notions of every third world
nation-in-the-sun as the west's travel consultants hustle to provide
increasingly offbeat answers to their affluent customers' increasingly strident
cry: "Where is there that's new to go?
And what shall we do when we get there?" Different locations provide different responses. In some places, eco-tourism does more harm than good. The well-meaning hordes scramble across virgin territory in pursuit of elusive rarity.
But here, in a country whose population is
increasingly dividing into "urban" and "rural" Fijians, is
where you'll experience what many will proudly tell you is the real
At 5,500 square km., Vanua Levu is the second-largest
island in the
Even further off the beaten South Pacific tourist
track is Taveuni, just east of
Attractions for visitors emphasize the outdoors though
you shouldn't miss the stained glass windows at the old Catholic mission at the
Maravu Plantation Resort, on Taveuni, is a boutique-style marriage of intimacy, immaculate quality and attentive, unobtrusive staff.
Each of the 10 well-appointed bures that lie scattered about the working, 54-acre copra plantation is named for a flower. Vuni Tarawau (one of three honeymoon bures) has an outside shower, made private by a stone wall surrounding a lava-rock floor and a sunning deck with its own banana tree.
The white-sand beach (where the dive team awaits to guide you to some of the world's best coral) is a pleasant downhill walk through a grassy palm grove (signs warn walkers to beware of falling coconuts).
You are summoned by traditional drums to lunch and dinner at the recently-renovated Wananavu Restaurant beside the pool. Dinner can be local coral trout or an exotic Fijian take on international cuisine. The service, primarily by girls from the nearby village, is enormously willing.
The resort is a good base for eco-exploration (bird-watching, flower-spotting, mountain hiking).
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An informative site
DUBAI
http://www.dubaishoppingfestival.com/
Dubai's
exciting new tourism destination started off as a huge cultural entertainment
center to cater to the need for a central meeting point where different
countries could showcase the myriad cultures. Over the years it has grown into
a star attraction among UAE nationals, resident expatriates from over 160
different countries and visitors from across the world. Today, this major
crowd-puller has been transformed into a unique international destination for
tourism, entertainment, leisure and culture. As a world-class tourism
destination, the Global Village brings together diverse customs and cultures
covering a broad spectrum of activities including music, dances, arts and
handicrafts, theatre, costumes and cuisine of different countries.
Located in Dubailand on the Emirates Road, this destination can be easily
accessed from all corners of the UAE through a superb road network. In addition
to hosting the colorful activities that are organised by countries from the
different continents of the world, the Global Village also offers a range of
top quality facilities and services including provision of restaurants, shuttle
transport services and a huge parking area that can accommodate thousands of
vehicles. Special requirements for families are speedily and efficiently taken
care of by a courteous staff at the Global Village.
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PAKISTAN
Please watch
my city Lahore - The Heart of Pakistan at:
Complete history and Picture Galleries of Best Locations, Lahore Fort, Shalimar
Gardens, Badshahi Masjid, Wazir Khan Masjid, Mazar Data Ganj Baksh, Jehangir
Tomb, Asif Khan Tomb, Khusal Singh Haveli, Dai Anga Tomb, Qasim Khan Tomb,
Kamran Baradari, Jahangiri Quadrangle, Diwaan-e-Khaas, Diwaan-e-Aam, Anarkali's
Tomb, Shafun Nissa Begum's tomb, Chamburji Gate, Bhaati Gate, Naulakha
Pavilion, Daulat Khana, Shish Mahal, Tower of Pakistan, Islamic Summit Minar,
Gaddafi Stadium, Alhamra Open Air Theatre, Alhamra Arts Council, Ranjeet
Singh's Samadhi, Wahga Border, Kot Karamat Village, Festivals of Lahore and
much more.
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email.
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France
Bertrand Joliet
Paintings
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whole scene
A child, armed with a plastic sword, is braving a giant octopus, the mythical kraken. Men and women on little boats go to his help, equipped with makeshift weapons : kitchen knives, hammers, javelins, do-it-yourself bows. In spite of the tentacles assaulting them from everywhere, they are going to conquer.
Between Comics and Renaissance, the fresco-epic is painted on 24 panels which, parcelled out, are enigmatic and tragic : the whole makes victory.
Because they know they are feeling the same emotions – that is telepathy – their life is no more a mystery, and they act to help a child, and to help themselves.
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Germany
Ulm
Dieter Grossmann, born in
Frankfurt/Oder in 1926, a voluntary citizen of Ulm, has already been awarded
silver and bronze metals several times for his graphic design, and has been
praised by critics as "poet of colors" and "lyric poet amongst
surrealists" after exhibitions abroad, e.g. in Milan, Bergamo, New York,
Kansas City, Washington, Toronto and Bangkok. What did this Grossmann do in
order that this journalist lost his balance? Has he mutated into an electronic
magician who produces an artistic patchwork of the highest virtuosity by means
of high tech? Not at all! What you can see here in the FAW are not digital
phantom pictures. You cannot obtain artistic importance by tricks, not even
with a lot of cunning craftiness.
Difference from the conventional creation of paintings is indeed not basic. As
in the old days when Grossmann made bead lines with his under hidden behind abstract
line webs with his oil paintings, both critical and visionary, or with his
landscape aquarelles across which he laid with water drops quite curious veils
as in monotypes, as in those days he is also sitting today in his atelier,
turning over papers of the most different absorbent capacity or punch masks,
selecting among hundreds of brushes the most suitable one for the realization
of his ideas of a certain picture, mixing colors and hues, sketching with a
pencil, grounding, water-coloring, or varnishing five to ten different layers,
one above the other. The only difference: the substratum does not lie on the
drawing board or stand on an easel, but it appears on the screen. Palette,
color tube or sample, brush or anything else he needs, Grossmann gets with the
cursor format he "tool box" on the monitor.
A drawing and a painting tool, he uses a pin, which is led over a
pressure-sensitive plate the interface between the artist and the machine. If
he presses more strongly, the painting tool gives more color as if he only
presses slightly. And if the painting tool reacts towards the paper structure
selected, light pressure produces a transparent effect whereas strong pressure
creates a pastier stroke. It is self understood that Grossmann could also on the
screen turn the picture always in such a way that as formerly on the drawing
board – the natural posture of arm, hand and wrist are not impaired while
painting. Another advantage is the possibility that the artist can zoom himself
into and out of the picture by a factor between 8,3 and 1200 percent. This
makes it possible to achieve the most delicate precision of the drawing and the
finest transitions of colors, which are known since the Renaissance as
"sfumato".
US-software makes all this possible the developer of which have analyzed during
more than twenty years painting techniques translating them into an incredibly
efficient diversity of functions. How these pictures converted into a binary
code get on canvas or paper, this, too, is not magic. You only need a plotter
on which four cartouches with the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black, all
of course absolutely resistant to light and non-fading, are running back and
forth like the sleigh on a knitting machine, producing that astronomic number
of suggestive, velvety veiled nuances which are characteristic for Grossmann's
pictures.
Craft, which Grossmann learnt from scratch between 1948 and 1952 at the Academy
of Arts in Berlin in the professors' Tank and Speidel master-classes, is worth
a lot to him. This craft is an essential component of his pictures which he
presents particularly conspicuously on his self-portrait or in his paraphrase
on the "Birth of Venus" by the Florentine Renaissance painter
Botticelli. Like him, Grossmann undertakes journeys into man's consciousness,
of course into the contemporary human's who, driven from Paradise,
("Getaway" is the title of the picture) is forced to struggle with
various crisis phenomena as shown in the growing gap between the poor and
the rich, in the erosion of social systems as well as in the overburdening of
the environment visible for example in the greenhouse effect.
The picture "Homo hominis lupus" this shows as well in a vehement
way. Grossmann finds it, too, in the gridiron of the soul of an Internet Surfer
who loses his balance on the data highway of the World Wide Web, the reason for
which this picture is called HYPERLINK "http://www.de." www.de.
Grossmann's perspective corresponds with Friedrich Nietsche's who masterly
formulated many truths and who called the world "a door to thousand
deserts, empty and cold". Accompanying our modern times the outbreaks of
research into the uninhabited. Outside, towards the inhumanly far away
galaxies, and into the interior, into the spooky, for a layman, components of
matter, have resulted in the loss of the cosmological centre, wrongly thinking
that we are still being in the womb. Man has been driven from the old housings
of harmonious illusions into the chill of freedom. In many pictures space
extending into the indefinite with its spells of the cold is put on stage. And,
continuously, drops and shell-like creations emerge, reminiscences of a place,
which – following an old tradition – could also be called sphere – sphere as
the inner, disclosed round inhabited by men. Grossmann unmasks the dream of
safety in a shell as a naïve and re…belief. previously pointed out Grossmann is
a surrealist who paints against the nearly intentional non-observance of our
ontological situation, thereby always observing the rules of aesthetic balance
which have been requested from artists by Sigmund Freud, who has been as
creator of psychoanalysis the mentor for many surrealists. The weightless,
rotating shell creations and spheres, the glacier or desert-like landscapes,
the views of inner human worlds which look like anatomical cuts, the
animalistic chimeras taken from Hieronymos Bosch's "Garden of Lusts"
repotted into his own world of pictures – all you see on the approximately
forty pictures has to do with the Janus-headed Freudian term of antithesis,
"discordia concors", concordant discord.
Talks of the ambivalent conflict of two basis instincts, Eros – the erotic
moment can be seen on many pictures – and Death Instinct. In the "eternal
fight" of these instincts he sees the basic pattern of three processes:
namely, the conflicts of the individual, then of cultural processes, and
finally – as Freud calls it – "the secret of organic life". All three
processes can be seen in Grossmann's pictures: the individual, sometimes from
endoscopically near sight; culture in the landscapes the technical culture
represented by the symbol of a space ship or a capsule; the secret of organic
life emerges from the many biomorphically shaped forms.
Freud calls death instinct is neutralized by Grossmann through aesthetic
distance. Looking at it this way, his pictures are like a mirror in which the
carrel freezes as the serpent hair Medusa in the mythology of the reflecting
shield of Perseus. The first Duinese Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke he talks about
this discord which is calmed by ambivalence, this frontier zone where the
beautiful and the terrible, life and death, lust and pain are experienced
simultaneously.
The beautiful says Rilke, is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, a
beginning just tolerated by us and we admire the terrible because it calmly
conspires to destroy us.
A highly sophisticated way of representation of the pictures of Hans-Dieter
Grossmann keeps the beautiful and the terrible, life and death in suspense.
Precisely this and not a highly technified Beidermeier in 17 inch screen format
to be seen elsewhere too, has brought again two years ago the first prize in
the "technical creative inkjet award" as well as last year the
exhibition in the renowned "Digital Art Gallery in Frankfurt".
Order to decipher Grossmann's work one must accept his request to participate
aesthetically which can only be useful.you for your attention
© Eduard Ohm, April 2000
Italy
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