Nothing is scheduled.
Everything is arranged.
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No programme, no facilitator, nothing to perform, and nothing for you to organise either. The car, the guide, the massage, the fire and every meal are already handled. You decide what you feel like on the day, or you decide nothing.
Two nights is the minimum, because one is not enough to stop moving.
The hills of Munduk in North Bali, a thousand metres up. Cold mornings, mist before breakfast, and no beach‑club energy whatsoever.
There is a waterfall below the property you can walk to before breakfast. Not a day trip. A walk.
It is a camp out with a chef, a fire, and a waterfall.
No workshops. Nobody calling it a journey. Nobody is going to ask you about your childhood.
The minimum, not a package. Stay longer if you can.
Above the coast, and three hours north of the airport.
What it drops to at night. Bring a sweater. Everybody forgets.
The trail is a steep ten minutes down and a steeper ten back, so bring shoes you can walk in. Meals at The Botanist beyond breakfast, and drinks, are charged as you go.
Priced separately, and none of it is booked unless you ask. Tell us the night before or the morning of.
The first time I am giving a place Six stars.
Dave Smith, The West Australian · more than 100 Bali hotels reviewed
Guests through the property
On Airbnb. A Guest Favourite, and a Superhost
Booking.com. Fewer than one in ten properties in an area are invited
“There is a descent to the waterfall from the hotel territory, and this is a huge advantage because if you go there early you will be alone there.”
Anastasia · Booking.com
“Cut straight out of The Jungle Book.”
Dave Smith · The West Australian
Eight rooms across the slope, a king bed in each. Yours is your own bubble of jungle for as long as you stay.
Food = Medicine
The Botanist has been farm to table since 2017. The menu draws on our own permaculture gardens and coffee plantation. What we do not grow comes from farms in the surrounding villages.
You eat at a long communal table hewn from a single slab of hardwood. It seats about twenty four, so everyone eats together.
“The food here easily earns five stars.”
The West Australian
Two nights is the minimum, so that is two of these. December and January are peak and priced higher.
There are eight rooms. When a group takes the property all eight come off sale at once, so October and January fill early.
Groundwork is the same place with the whole property to one group. Two nights, every room, every meal off the farm, and nobody else waking up here.
From A$380 each when sixteen of you share the eight rooms.