Bali Adventure at Campuhan

At the dawn of Bali's Hindu history a traveling holy man from India found a place in central Bali where 'two rivers meet', Campuhan, in Balinese. He vowed to build a temple above the cliff overlooking the rivers. The temple is still today a place of ceremonies and quiet contemplation.

In the 1940s the princely family of Ubud opened the area to foreign painters which influenced a lively art culture in the surrounding villages which today is as vivid as ever. Their output is displayed and sold in the bustling streets of Ubud, ten minutes walk up the road. For me the area of Campuhan, so near the rich diversion of great restaurants and shops of Ubud, is a quiet heaven to escape to. Much of the tropical profusion on the two sides of the rivers has been preserved with an imaginative fusion of the old and well blended new... Read More