A professional WA henna artist has revealed the truth about
"temporary" tattoos in Bali as another Perth mum spoke up about her
son's toxic reaction.
Cara Norris said she had been cautious enough to test a small amount of the product used by the Kuta tattooist before letting her seven-year-old son Kirk get a design done on his arm. But the burning sensation and blistering didn't occur until two weeks after they were back in Perth.
"I'm a hairdresser, so I thought I'll do a skin patch test, as you do in a salon, and leave a dot on his skin for 24 hours to see if that reacts," Mrs Norris said. "If it doesn't, you assume it's OK."
She said the mixture took time to reveal its toxicity and so there was no way of first checking if the tattoo was safe.
"Just don't do it," she said. "It could take a couple of years to heal properly."
Mrs Norris and henna artist Charmaine Burnett came forward yesterday after reading the case of nine-year-old Blake Laufer, who is seeing a burns specialist after his Bali tattoo turned bad.
"Bali henna is not henna at all," Ms Burnett said. "It is combination of a powder, water and ink.
"The powder used is for colouring hair and contains a harmful chemical called PPD or paraphelylendiamine - found in most commercial hair colours.
"This powder is used in high concentration which is toxic and should not come into contact with the skin at any time."
She said the street and beach tattooists in Bali added writing ink. Natural henna, which was more obvious because of its reddish brown colour, rarely caused a reaction.
"It contains natural cooling, antifungal and antibacterial properties and a naturally occurring sunscreen," Ms Burnett said. "I have not seen a reaction in the time I have worked with it, keeping in mind I attend all the festivals, the Royal Show and I'm at the Fremantle markets."
Mrs Norris' son got his tattoo on June 9, near the Dynasty, a popular resort for Perth families in Kuta.
The inflammation was gone but the tattoo outline was still clear.
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Cara Norris said she had been cautious enough to test a small amount of the product used by the Kuta tattooist before letting her seven-year-old son Kirk get a design done on his arm. But the burning sensation and blistering didn't occur until two weeks after they were back in Perth.
"I'm a hairdresser, so I thought I'll do a skin patch test, as you do in a salon, and leave a dot on his skin for 24 hours to see if that reacts," Mrs Norris said. "If it doesn't, you assume it's OK."
She said the mixture took time to reveal its toxicity and so there was no way of first checking if the tattoo was safe.
"Just don't do it," she said. "It could take a couple of years to heal properly."
Mrs Norris and henna artist Charmaine Burnett came forward yesterday after reading the case of nine-year-old Blake Laufer, who is seeing a burns specialist after his Bali tattoo turned bad.
"Bali henna is not henna at all," Ms Burnett said. "It is combination of a powder, water and ink.
"The powder used is for colouring hair and contains a harmful chemical called PPD or paraphelylendiamine - found in most commercial hair colours.
"This powder is used in high concentration which is toxic and should not come into contact with the skin at any time."
She said the street and beach tattooists in Bali added writing ink. Natural henna, which was more obvious because of its reddish brown colour, rarely caused a reaction.
"It contains natural cooling, antifungal and antibacterial properties and a naturally occurring sunscreen," Ms Burnett said. "I have not seen a reaction in the time I have worked with it, keeping in mind I attend all the festivals, the Royal Show and I'm at the Fremantle markets."
Mrs Norris' son got his tattoo on June 9, near the Dynasty, a popular resort for Perth families in Kuta.
The inflammation was gone but the tattoo outline was still clear.
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THE warden of a notorious Indonesian prison has strongly denied claims by a British former inmate that she had been abused and that the jail was rife with drug use.
Rachel Dougall, 40, told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper this week that she was beaten, bullied and had to fend off sexual advances from a female inmate and male guards.Her allegations came after she finished a 12-month sentence related to drugs and was deported to Britain in May.
"Her allegations don't match the facts on the ground," prison warden I Gusti Ngurah Wiratna said on Tuesday at the Kerobokan jail on the resort island of Bali.
"We questioned 16 foreign inmates at her block and they said her statements were nonsense," he said, adding the allegations were "serious and damaging".
Dougall, who was imprisoned for not reporting her boyfriend's possession of cocaine, claimed inmates beat her up several times.
"I would cover up my face and take the beatings as they punched and kicked me," Dougall told the Daily Mail, adding inmates tried to force her to take drugs.
She described repeated sexual advances from a lesbian inmate who "ran" the women's block.
"Because I rebuffed her, she would force me to dress up in leather or other fancy clothes and dance like a stripper while the other women laughed and pushed me around. I was humiliated," Dougall said.
She said most of the women were on drugs "virtually every day".
"If you had money the guards would get you anything you wanted. Inmates in the men's prison next door even paid prostitutes for overnight visits," she said.
Wiratna said consulate representatives made visits to see British inmates around three times a month and Dougall had never raised any concerns.
"If she had been mistreated, why didn't she complain to them? They would certainly have relayed her complaints to us," he said.
British embassy officials declined to comment on Dougall, saying in a statement to AFP: "We take allegations of mistreatment very seriously and will raise them with the local authorities if the individual gives their permission."
Dougall was arrested in a police sting in 2012 after Briton Lindsay June Sandiford, 56, was found with almost five kilograms of cocaine in her suitcase at the island's international airport.
Dougall was one of four Britons and an Indian national suspected in a drug ring, but she was convicted only of failing to report her boyfriend, Julian Ponder, for drug possession.
Sandiford, who helped police net the others, was sentenced to death for smuggling.
Media reports have said Kerobokan, where several dozen foreigners are held, is notorious for drugs, corruption and abuse.
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Put Workers' Rights on Bali APEC Agenda, Unionists Urge President
By Tito Summa Siahaan on 8:18 am July 30, 2013.
Indonesia labor workers
Indonesia labor workers
Workers march during a rally at the business district in Jakarta February 6, 2013. (Reuters Photo/Beawiharta)
A delegation from the International Confederation of Trade Unions on Monday met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to convey their request for the summit, which will bring together the leaders of 21 countries on either side of the Pacific Ocean.
"We ask the president to champion, to be a leader, in calling for APEC to endorse an APEC-wide decent work strategy which includes jobs, labor rights and social protection," said Sharan Burrow, the secretary general of ICTU.
"Indonesia has a very critical leadership role both in APEC and the G-20," the Australian added, referring to the Group of 20 leading economies.
APEC leaders should also address the growing presence of the informal sector, which accounts for 40 percent of the world economy, Burrow said. "Even in G-20, you have informal sector of between 20 percent and 85 percent in India."
Burrow said workers in the informal sector, are often in a state of "desperation" and are beyond the reach of regulations and state intervention. "People [that] find informal-sector work, they do anything to survive, but it is not [a] way to build a society or the economy," she added.
Labor issues should be on the APEC agenda because economic growth is in the interests of both workers and businesses, Burrow said.
The unionist added that workers have invested $25 trillion in pension funds in the world economy, and so focusing on job creation as a source of growth is important.
"When you look at jobs as the priority, ending the informal sector, and inequality being the global issues that leaders are concerned about, then labor is at the heart of all of those issues," she added.
After the meeting with Yudhoyono, Burrow said: "We were heartened to hear the president said that the low-wage era is over. It is our very firm view that we will not build a stable global economy without ending the area of exploitation that Asian workers in particular have experienced in the global supply chain."
Yudhoyono also committed to increasing engagement with labor movements, both from Indonesia and abroad, Burrow said. Said Iqbal, chairman of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions, backed the call for APEC leaders to add labor to the agenda.
Labor rights have returned to the Indonesian domestic agenda in recent years, with a 44 percent minimum wage increase in Jakarta in January sparking similar actions elsewhere in the country, and outsourcing becoming a hot-button issue.
This year's APEC summit, which comes as much of the world struggles to regain economic momentum after several years of recessions and false starts, carries the theme "Towards Resilience and Growth: Reshaping Priorities for Global Economy."
While Indonesia's Foreign Affairs Ministry has previously celebrated the number of meetings it has hosted in association with the summit, it has yet to identify clear objectives the country wishes to achieve as host.
Formed in 1989, APEC focuses on trade and economics. Its members including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
- 22rolesHow about you guys stand up and fight for enviroment destructions done by criminals and start demanding to get them out of the country.
- RolandHow to get them out of the country? The vast majority are Indonesian owned business entities…
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NEW DELHI: India expressed hope that negotiations on a global trade deal under the WTO's Doha Round of talks will move forward at the forthcoming ministerial meet at Bali in December.
However, it said that if talks on the G-33 proposal of the developing countries like India, which deals with food security issues, did not move forward at the meeting, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) may also not see any progress.
Under the TFA, a proposal of developed countries, WTO members are negotiating ways to facilitate trade, simplify and harmonise customs rules and reduce transactions cost.
"India is looking for a possible outcome in Bali meet. Last week's development in Geneva do give us a sense of positivity. We feel that things will move.
"But we are also circumspect that if G-33 proposal and some of the developmental elements do not move, then TFA also may not move," Additional Secretary in the Commerce Ministry Rajeev Kher said here at a WTO function. Kher is also India's chief negotiator at WTO.
Although India is willing to negotiate on TFA, it has raised few concerns over the proposed agreement as it would entail huge investments in creating infrastructure at ports and airports.
"TFA is a desirable agreement. But (the way) it is placed on the table, it does not have all the elements the developing countries would want...the proposal mooted by countries like India have to be given equal weightage and equal seriousness," he said.
He added that TFA would put tremendous burden on developing countries like India in terms of requirement of human resource, finances, infrastructure and "more in terms of changing laws and procedures and practices".
The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference will be held in Bali from December 3-6.
The Ministerial Conference is the highest decision-making body of the 158-member multi-lateral Organisation which meets at least once every two years.
The Doha talks, launched in 2001, have missed several deadlines for its conclusion due to divergent views on some of the issues between the developed countries like the US and the developing nations such as India.
The G-33 proposal, mooted by developing countries like India and China, is for food security and flexibility in their public stock holding operations for public distribution system.
Kher said during the last 8-10 months, "there is a huge amount of convergence on thinking that something must come out from Bali". However, he expressed concern that if nothing would come out from the meet, people may raise questions on the relevance of the multi-lateral body.
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However, it said that if talks on the G-33 proposal of the developing countries like India, which deals with food security issues, did not move forward at the meeting, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) may also not see any progress.
Under the TFA, a proposal of developed countries, WTO members are negotiating ways to facilitate trade, simplify and harmonise customs rules and reduce transactions cost.
"India is looking for a possible outcome in Bali meet. Last week's development in Geneva do give us a sense of positivity. We feel that things will move.
"But we are also circumspect that if G-33 proposal and some of the developmental elements do not move, then TFA also may not move," Additional Secretary in the Commerce Ministry Rajeev Kher said here at a WTO function. Kher is also India's chief negotiator at WTO.
Although India is willing to negotiate on TFA, it has raised few concerns over the proposed agreement as it would entail huge investments in creating infrastructure at ports and airports.
"TFA is a desirable agreement. But (the way) it is placed on the table, it does not have all the elements the developing countries would want...the proposal mooted by countries like India have to be given equal weightage and equal seriousness," he said.
He added that TFA would put tremendous burden on developing countries like India in terms of requirement of human resource, finances, infrastructure and "more in terms of changing laws and procedures and practices".
The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference will be held in Bali from December 3-6.
The Ministerial Conference is the highest decision-making body of the 158-member multi-lateral Organisation which meets at least once every two years.
The Doha talks, launched in 2001, have missed several deadlines for its conclusion due to divergent views on some of the issues between the developed countries like the US and the developing nations such as India.
The G-33 proposal, mooted by developing countries like India and China, is for food security and flexibility in their public stock holding operations for public distribution system.
Kher said during the last 8-10 months, "there is a huge amount of convergence on thinking that something must come out from Bali". However, he expressed concern that if nothing would come out from the meet, people may raise questions on the relevance of the multi-lateral body.
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Rachel Dougall, 39, was arrested last year alongside grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, who was sentenced to death by firing squad for taking £1.6 million of cocaine on to the Indonesian island.
Dougall continued to protest her innocence as she said she was bullied by inmates, suffered a nervous breakdown and became so ill behind bars that she was left unable to breathe. The mother is still in contact with her partner Julian Ponder - serving a six-year sentence in connection with the drug smuggling operation - and said he "speaks with his little girl", from Bali.
"It was pretty grim, an eye-opener, a very scary place," she told ITV's Daybreak. "There was a lot of jealousy because the newspapers called me the 'Queen of Bali' and they just believed what they saw on the internet. I got beaten up, got very sick in there with pneumonia."
Dougall said authorities at Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison, nicknamed Hotel K, took three months to realise she required treatment.
"I kept saying 'I'm not well, I have a chest infection'," she said, adding: "One day I collapsed and the guards had to carry me to the clinic and then I was in intensive care for 48 hours, I just couldn't breathe."
Dougall, from Brighton, was arrested in a sting operation by Indonesian police in May last year after Sandiford, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was found with 10.5lb of cocaine stuffed in the lining of a suitcase as she arrived in Bali. Police who raided Dougall's home found two packets of cigarettes containing cocaine - one in her handbag and one in her daughter's bedroom.
She was jailed for a year for failing to report a crime while Ponder, 43, was handed a six-year term after he was convicted of possessing drugs and fined one billion rupiah, around £65,000.
Dougall returned to Britain in May, when she was reunited with her daughter. She has always insisted she was the victim of a ''fit-up''. "I was unaware of the cocaine that was in my house," she told Daybreak. "Who in their right mind would have cocaine in their daughter's bedroom? Enough to kill them and to get 20 years in prison?"
Asked how the drugs may have arrived in the little girl's room, she replied: "My partner, he... it was his, and I didn't know anything about it."
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Dougall continued to protest her innocence as she said she was bullied by inmates, suffered a nervous breakdown and became so ill behind bars that she was left unable to breathe. The mother is still in contact with her partner Julian Ponder - serving a six-year sentence in connection with the drug smuggling operation - and said he "speaks with his little girl", from Bali.
"It was pretty grim, an eye-opener, a very scary place," she told ITV's Daybreak. "There was a lot of jealousy because the newspapers called me the 'Queen of Bali' and they just believed what they saw on the internet. I got beaten up, got very sick in there with pneumonia."
Dougall said authorities at Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison, nicknamed Hotel K, took three months to realise she required treatment.
"I kept saying 'I'm not well, I have a chest infection'," she said, adding: "One day I collapsed and the guards had to carry me to the clinic and then I was in intensive care for 48 hours, I just couldn't breathe."
Dougall, from Brighton, was arrested in a sting operation by Indonesian police in May last year after Sandiford, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was found with 10.5lb of cocaine stuffed in the lining of a suitcase as she arrived in Bali. Police who raided Dougall's home found two packets of cigarettes containing cocaine - one in her handbag and one in her daughter's bedroom.
She was jailed for a year for failing to report a crime while Ponder, 43, was handed a six-year term after he was convicted of possessing drugs and fined one billion rupiah, around £65,000.
Dougall returned to Britain in May, when she was reunited with her daughter. She has always insisted she was the victim of a ''fit-up''. "I was unaware of the cocaine that was in my house," she told Daybreak. "Who in their right mind would have cocaine in their daughter's bedroom? Enough to kill them and to get 20 years in prison?"
Asked how the drugs may have arrived in the little girl's room, she replied: "My partner, he... it was his, and I didn't know anything about it."
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Pinning hopes on the Bali Ministerial meet in December for further progress of the WTO Doha round trade negotiations, India on Monday warned that if no progress was made on the G-33 proposal of developing countries like India to deal with food security issues, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) progress could also stand stalled.
"If talks on the G-33 proposal of developing countries like India, which deals with food security issues, does not move forward at the meeting, the TFA may also not see any progress. India is looking for a possible outcome in Bali meet. Last week's development in Geneva does give us a sense of positivity. We feel that things will move. But we are also circumspect that if the G-33 proposal and some of the developmental elements do not move, then TFA also may not move," additional secretary in the Commerce Ministry, Rajeev Kher said here at a WTO function.
Under the TFA, a proposal of developed countries, WTO members are negotiating ways to facilitate trade, simplify and harmonise customs rules and reduce transactions cost.
Mr. Kher, who is also India's chief negotiator at WTO, said that although India is willing to negotiate on TFA, it has raised a few concerns over the proposed agreement as it would entail huge investments in creating infrastructure at ports and airports. "TFA is a desirable agreement. But the way it is placed on the table, it does not have all the elements the developing countries would want," he added.
He said TFA would put tremendous burden on developing countries like India in terms of requirement of human resource, finances, infrastructure and more in terms of changing laws and procedures and practices. The ninth WTO Ministerial Conference would be held in Bali from December 3 to December 6. The Ministerial Conference is the highest decision-making body of the 158-member multi-lateral Organisation, which meets at least once every two years.
The G-33 proposal, mooted by developing countries like India and China, is for food security and flexibility in their public stock holding operations for public distribution system.
Mr. Kher said that the WTO's pre-dominance in trade discourse must be upheld. "We have shown tremendous flexibility and we are dropping brackets on resolving contentious matters very significantly and on the other hand there is a very little movement in the G-33 proposal on food security and that is where the problem is," he said.
He said that the proposal was open-ended and that India was ready to negotiate flexibilities and other alternatives. He also expressed concern that if the Bali meet would not deliver anything, there may not be any Doha Round in the future as new agendas have already been emerging.
Rich nations, including the U.S., want India and other emerging economies to be part of the four major sectoral pacts — TFA, information technology, environmental goods and international services agreement. "India has said that it will not accept any agreement on IT and environmental goods as it would adversely impact the domestic industry," he added.
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"If talks on the G-33 proposal of developing countries like India, which deals with food security issues, does not move forward at the meeting, the TFA may also not see any progress. India is looking for a possible outcome in Bali meet. Last week's development in Geneva does give us a sense of positivity. We feel that things will move. But we are also circumspect that if the G-33 proposal and some of the developmental elements do not move, then TFA also may not move," additional secretary in the Commerce Ministry, Rajeev Kher said here at a WTO function.
Under the TFA, a proposal of developed countries, WTO members are negotiating ways to facilitate trade, simplify and harmonise customs rules and reduce transactions cost.
Mr. Kher, who is also India's chief negotiator at WTO, said that although India is willing to negotiate on TFA, it has raised a few concerns over the proposed agreement as it would entail huge investments in creating infrastructure at ports and airports. "TFA is a desirable agreement. But the way it is placed on the table, it does not have all the elements the developing countries would want," he added.
He said TFA would put tremendous burden on developing countries like India in terms of requirement of human resource, finances, infrastructure and more in terms of changing laws and procedures and practices. The ninth WTO Ministerial Conference would be held in Bali from December 3 to December 6. The Ministerial Conference is the highest decision-making body of the 158-member multi-lateral Organisation, which meets at least once every two years.
The G-33 proposal, mooted by developing countries like India and China, is for food security and flexibility in their public stock holding operations for public distribution system.
Mr. Kher said that the WTO's pre-dominance in trade discourse must be upheld. "We have shown tremendous flexibility and we are dropping brackets on resolving contentious matters very significantly and on the other hand there is a very little movement in the G-33 proposal on food security and that is where the problem is," he said.
He said that the proposal was open-ended and that India was ready to negotiate flexibilities and other alternatives. He also expressed concern that if the Bali meet would not deliver anything, there may not be any Doha Round in the future as new agendas have already been emerging.
Rich nations, including the U.S., want India and other emerging economies to be part of the four major sectoral pacts — TFA, information technology, environmental goods and international services agreement. "India has said that it will not accept any agreement on IT and environmental goods as it would adversely impact the domestic industry," he added.
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A Perth primary school pupil is under the care of burns specialists after a so-called temporary tattoo he received in Bali turned toxic.
Blake Laufer, 9, had seen other children with the decorative henna tattoos while holidaying this month in Seminyak and finally convinced his parents to let him have the dragon design done on the day before returning to Perth.
But two weeks later, the tattoo resembled a chemical-style burn and Blake's arm became badly blistered and inflamed.
"They can't be positive, but it could be a chemical burn, which burns from the inside out, or it could be an extreme allergic reaction," his mother Helen Davey said.
Blake's wound is being checked every two days at the Princess Margaret Hospital burns unit and his parents want other WA families to know of the danger the tattoos pose.
"At the time we assumed the man on the beach was using henna, but clearly it was not," Ms Davey said. "There is no way we would have let him get it done if we knew of the risks before. The doctors have told us they'd seen a bit of it lately and what's used could be things like kerosene and boot polish."
Further research by Ms Davey suggests substances are added to the henna to make it thinner and easier to work with. The boot polish is used to make the tattoo blacker. The tattoo cost about $10.
In May, the father of an 11-year-old told _The West Australian _that his son developed welts all over his body after getting a temporary tattoo in Kuta.
As in Blake's case, the condition became noticeable only after the boy had returned to Perth. The boy's father was told by doctors that the scarring could be visible for at least 12 months.
In 2011, an eight-year-old Perth boy experienced a burning sensation about 15 minutes after getting one of the black henna tattoos.
His mother said it looked innocent enough when it was being applied, but soon became very painful.
Ms Davey said yesterday that Blake's doctors had not ruled out skin grafts to repair the damage.
"He's scared about what could happen," she said. "No other parent would want their child to go through this."
Blake Laufer gets his tattoo in Seminyak in July.
Helen Davey and her son Blake Laufer back at home in Mount Hawthorn. Picture: Nic Ellis/The West Australian
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Blake Laufer, 9, had seen other children with the decorative henna tattoos while holidaying this month in Seminyak and finally convinced his parents to let him have the dragon design done on the day before returning to Perth.
But two weeks later, the tattoo resembled a chemical-style burn and Blake's arm became badly blistered and inflamed.
"They can't be positive, but it could be a chemical burn, which burns from the inside out, or it could be an extreme allergic reaction," his mother Helen Davey said.
Blake's wound is being checked every two days at the Princess Margaret Hospital burns unit and his parents want other WA families to know of the danger the tattoos pose.
"At the time we assumed the man on the beach was using henna, but clearly it was not," Ms Davey said. "There is no way we would have let him get it done if we knew of the risks before. The doctors have told us they'd seen a bit of it lately and what's used could be things like kerosene and boot polish."
Further research by Ms Davey suggests substances are added to the henna to make it thinner and easier to work with. The boot polish is used to make the tattoo blacker. The tattoo cost about $10.
In May, the father of an 11-year-old told _The West Australian _that his son developed welts all over his body after getting a temporary tattoo in Kuta.
As in Blake's case, the condition became noticeable only after the boy had returned to Perth. The boy's father was told by doctors that the scarring could be visible for at least 12 months.
In 2011, an eight-year-old Perth boy experienced a burning sensation about 15 minutes after getting one of the black henna tattoos.
His mother said it looked innocent enough when it was being applied, but soon became very painful.
Ms Davey said yesterday that Blake's doctors had not ruled out skin grafts to repair the damage.
"He's scared about what could happen," she said. "No other parent would want their child to go through this."
Blake Laufer gets his tattoo in Seminyak in July.
Helen Davey and her son Blake Laufer back at home in Mount Hawthorn. Picture: Nic Ellis/The West Australian
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represents outstanding value.
"Villa Dhyan" is set on the steep ridge of the Ayung River in Sayan near the famous Four Seasons and Amandari resorts and offers stunning views of the Ayung River and the valley. It's a short walk (about 70 meters) from the private covered parking area and the busy main road.
It's about 40 minutes to Sanur or Denpasar, and about one hour to Bali's international airport, Kuta and Legian. White water rafting on the Ayung river starts close-by, and the nearest beaches are about 30 minutes away.
The Villa
Built by the famous German painter Peter Dittmar about 20 years ago and renovated in 2004, this unique artist's retreat is an excellent example of how traditional houses were built at that time with thatched roofs, open living areas and bedrooms with walls from woven rattan.
Your reach the gate walking a narrow path from the main road, and inside the tropical garden you face several separate buildings. The main house accommodates on the ground floor a two-level living area with large sofas, several traditional sofa chairs and tables to enjoy the breath-taking view of the river below and the surroundings. On the ground floor is also a bathroom, and two staircases lead to the up-stairs master bedroom.
A square dining pavilion with a table for up to 6 guests is located next to the main house and close to the separate kitchen building and a studio (locked when Dittmar is in Sydney, in Munich or travelling) and a guest bedroom above. An additional guest cottage is set in the garden behind the main building next to the swimming pool.
The Bedrooms
The air-conditioned master bedroom above the living room in the main house can be accessed via a staircase from the ground-floor bathroom or via an outside staircase. It offers spectacular views of the Ayung river and the valley below. On the desk is a telephone & fax machine, and here you can connect your computer to the Internet.
The air-conditioned bedroom Number 2 is located in a small traditional guest cottage with thatched roof behind the main house. It features a private open bathroom and a small terrace which overlooks the swimming pool and valley.
Bedroom Number 3 has been added in 2005 and is air-conditioned as well as fan-cooled and located above the painter's studio, offering from its balcony a great view of the Ayung River and the surroundings. This bedroom has also a private bathroom.
Kitchen & Services
The open kitchen is located next to the dining pavilion and equipped with stove, oven, refrigerator, blender, glasses, crockery and cutlery, etc.
The well-trained villa staff includes a cook to prepare delicious meals, a maid to clean the premises and handle your laundry, and a gardener. All live near Villa Dhyan and are available whenever needed. All staff members wear uniform and name tags to make identification easy.
Facilities & Features:
Small swimming pool
- Television with DVD player and satellite system to receive
over 50 international news, sports and movie channels
in the living room - Direct telephone line & fax machine in the master bedroom
- Private safe in the upstairs master bedroom
- Excellent full-time cook, house maid and gardener
- Free wireless internet access
- Free in-house laundry service
Because of its spectacular
beachfront location, the high quality of service, the 5-star
facilities, the "Canggu Beach Villa" represents outstanding value
compared to most other beach front villas in the more popular parts of
Bali.
The "Canggu Beach Villa" is nestled in rice fields surroundings with over 100 meters of private beach frontage near the village of Pererenan. It has the ultimate sunset panorama with views over to the Jimbaran Bukit headland in the South, across to the Java coastline in the West and the cloudy peaks of Gunung Agung to the North.
A swim in the pool, a surf at one of Bali's most popular surf beaches, a game of tennis or a bike ride to the village are all only a matter of steps away. It's about 15 minutes by car to the popular Greg Norman designed "Bali Nirvana Golf Course" (recently voted one of the top ten golf courses in the world) or to the trendy restaurants, bars and discos in Seminyak. To Bali's airport it's about 40 minutes depending on the traffic.
The Villa
The villa was designed and built as the familily home for an Australian developer whose company is responsible for a large proportion of Bali's luxury villas. Set on over 2,700 square meters of gently sloping grounds, studded with coconut palms and frangipani trees and with a 18m x 4m swimming pool, this villa is a wonderful retreat away from the hectic gaiety of tourist Bali.
The "Canggu Beach Villa", open to magnificent views and restful private gardens, is the essence of easy tropical living. It features the best of handcrafted local timbers and stone combined with every modern amenity. Staffed by loyal Balinese, the villa provides a home in which you will be pampered and delighted by their uniquely Balinese spirit.
The spacious open Living/Dining Room is the center of this comfortable residence. This features a Wantilan roof structure and is built from coconut columns, hardwood framing, stone floor and thatched "alang alang" roof covering. The main dining table can accommodate 12 guests.
There is also an upstairs Billiard Lounge equipped with TV/VCD and a pool table. The lush tropical gardens feature an 18 meter long swimming pool lined with natural green stone and located to take full advantage of the sunset. There is also a tennis court on the property.
Bedrooms
The villa has four bedrooms, all with concealed air-conditioning units as well as large overhead ceiling fans. Each bedroom has an individual en-suite bathroom featuring the romantic charm of the outdoor shower experience and two of these bathrooms feature a bath tub. All bedrooms have ocean views with large glass sliding doors. The cool and clean feel of dark teak timber floors have been used throughout.
In addition the villa features an air-conditioned study and TV room with fully equipped bathroom with bath tub adjacent to the Master Bedroom which can be used as a 5th. bedroom.
Facilities and Amenities
The kitchen is fully equiped and features large refrigerators, stove and oven, micro wave, blender and cutlery/crockery to entertain in style. The cooks and other staff have been personally trained by the owner's wife and are at ease with the preparation of Indonesian and Western, Italian and BBQ style meals including special dietary needs and simple dishes for kids.
The 14 well-trained staff include in addition to the excellent cooks also maids, house boys, gardeners and security guards who live on the premises or nearby. All staff members wear uniforms and name tags to make identification easy.
A telephone is installed in the study, and there are four mountain bikes for the guests enjoyment. Delightful Balinese music and dance performances can be arranged in the villa's garden or on the beach at sunset.
Facilities & Features:
- 100 meters of beach frontage
- 18 x 4 meter lap pool
- Full-size private tennis court
- Billiard lounge
- Direct telephone in the study
- Free Internet Access
- TV with International news, sports and movie
channels in the study and billiard lounge - DVD player and movie library
- Books about Bali, magazines, novels, card
& board games - Stereo systems in living area and all bedrooms
- Personal electronic safes in all bedrooms
- in-house Spa & Beauty treatments
- Free in-house laundry
- 24 hours security
- 14 trained full-time staff including cooks, maids,
houseboys, gardeners and security guards - Private parking for two cars.
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