Originally Posted by Musken

Finally, what I consider the highlight of our outings. We had read in the car on our way to Amankila that a special hindu ceremony would take place while we were there. We mentioned to the staff that we would like to see this, and they checked which temple we should visit for the best experience. The took us to a quite isolated temple in the jungle 25 minutes drive from Amankila. The driver helped us dressing properly in sarongs and we joined him and around 1.000 locals in a huge ceremony with music, performances, offerings and celebration. The driver did his best to explain everything for us, and acted as translator between the local boys and our son. All locals dressed in traditional clothing, women bringing offerings carried on their heads, children performing dances – and us in between all of this. Wow!

Originally Posted by Musken

performance of this dance that we saw at Kila many years ago

Originally Posted by Musken

http://baliasli.com.au. We had lunch there during an excursion and the food, service and view was amazing. This is also where Kila send their guests for cooking classes

if you want to experience the real, traditional Bali and the Baliense culture + beautiful, green nature, I cannot talk highly enough of Amankila and east Bali...during our activities from Kila we really had experiences as only tourists in between the locals.

two treks from Amankila (Putung to Amankila through Manggis and Wates toAbian Canang with Picnic Breakfast) were both very scenic and very different. The first trek was only downhill, through small villages, over the beautiful rice fields and through the jungle along a small river and the second one first uphill passing lots of different tropical fruit trees, to a view point to see the mountain (covered in clouds the day we were there, but still beautiful) and then downhill passing a small temple where we met local women bringing offerings carried on their heads and passing isolated villages high up in the mountains ending at the spectacular bale for breakfast with a view. Both highly recommended.

We also enjoyed the east Bali tour where we visited two water palaces, very different from each other and from other sights in Bali, as well as a traditional village. Also great to see the lush nature and local life along the road. Make sure to add lunch at Bali Asli that I mentioned above.

parades are held all over Bali

dressed in very nice local dresses and taken to the temple inside the Kila resort where a hindu priest performed a blessing ceremony for us. A memorable experience

Nusa is highly underrated

Originally Posted by Musken

pool villa...upgraded first at Amankila since we agreed to move dates to accommodate a wedding

Originally Posted by Musken

I played personal trainer for my husband and showed him exercises he was not used to, i.e. I was better

Originally Posted by aa213bb

Having now - I believe I've read - been to all of the Indonesian Amans, how would you rank them?