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Our extensive travels and passion for the culture of Indonesia led us to Bambu Indah. It's our pleasure to share our home with you.
Our extensive travels and passion for the culture of Indonesia led us to Bambu Indah. It's our pleasure to share our home with you.
Bambu Indah is a tiny luxurious boutique hotel encapsulating old school Bali; peaceful, laidback and in harmony with nature. Tamarind, cinnamon, palm and bayan trees cascade down steep jungle slopes to an enchanting river with natural swimming pools fed by dancing waterfalls. Jewellery designer John Hardy arrived in Ibud in the 70’s and met and married Cynthia a decade later. Each passionate about the environment, together they are a fusion of creativity. In 2005 they installed eleven antique Javanese bridal homes collected on their travels on a jungle cliff top overlooking padi fields, inviting first their friends to stay and then turning it into a hotel. Since then, they have evolved with ecological mindfulness to expand Bambu Indah down to the river, building a range of spectacular and utterly original buildings all made from their signature material, bamboo. Today travellers come from all over the world, drawn by their dream of a regenerative world where nothing is used which cannot be composted back into the earth. This garden of Eden is their home which they share with you.
Tour our breathtaking resort. This is just a taste of what lies ahead in your journey of the senses.
As the years have gone by our family has grown and founded a number of businesses and initiatives. Here is what we are up to today.
We are proud of the way in which we have married an ecologically-mindful ethos with the world class service expected in a luxurious boutique hotel. Here are some of the ways we respect our environment:
It was in 1975 when John Hardy moved to Bali. He then met Cynthia, and together they set out on a mission to build a jewelry business. Upon finding success, their passions soon led them to create the sustainable masterpiece that is Bambu Indah.
In 2005, we brought eleven antique Javanese bridal homes to Bali and began decorating them with objects and textiles collected from around the world, with the intention of hosting our family and closest friends who had travelled around the world to visit us. We wanted them to be surrounded by the rich creativity and the history of Indonesia, while being comforted by the luxury and service of a boutique hotel.
Any respectable institution has manicured bushes and a flower garden, we did too… Until we realized that we could be growing food. Food from our land directly to our tables. We work on an incentive program where we buy the produce from our gardeners so that they may earn more than salary based on crop yields. Not only are our garden beds bursting with delicious greens, but our guests get to reimagine how they may live their own lives and some have even shared that they went home and dug up their lawns to plant tomatoes. Maybe you can too.
In 2008, John and Cynthia founded the globally renowned Green School. They built an incredible bamboo campus that combines cutting-edge technology with traditional materials and building methods. The result is a truly inspirational teaching and learning environment that stimulates critical thinking and creative problem solving.
In 2012, after Elora Hardy’s wedding, we realized Bambu Indah had far greater potential than we had been accessing and decided to expand from 4 to 16 rooms. We created a world class kitchen, designed by Ibuku, making home cooked organic Balinese meals, and incorporated the experiences that the Hardy family treasures, such as early morning rice padi walks, Balinese blessings on the deck, yoga classes with local teachers, and lazy afternoons by the spring water pools, available to our guests.
Beginning in 2016 we expanded the Bambu Indah dream down to the riverside, where open air bamboo houses fully immerse you in the intense power of the river, while being comfortably nuzzled in plush cotton duvets. We truly let our imagination run wild with spring fed pools, hanging moon chairs, and a bamboo pod quite literally suspended over the roaring river.
Don’t take this romantic title too lightly, for these tents sit on floating platforms at the peak of a cliff overlooking the valley. Through a spiral staircase hugging the cliff you will reach your destination - camping reimagined. Your bed is enclosed by a retractable mosquito net, resembling an oversized fruit basket, an air conditioning unit and fan, a woven bamboo roof, and view to die for. For the lovers, the adventurers, the dreamers and the daring, who wish to be fully immersed in Bali’s magic.
Staying with us at Bambu Indah is an experience like no other; one that has transformed over the years as we continue to imagine and reimagine the world around us. But some things will always stay the same, our commitment to preserving and promoting the environment, our delicious and organic farm to table food, our dedication to innovative and groundbreaking sustainable design, our desire to immerse you in the magic of Bali and welcome you as part of our family.
The heart and soul of Bambu Indah that we are proud to call family.
The Team
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