Ubud Hanging Gardens

Ubud Hanging Gardens is a luxury villa complex located on the slopes of a tropical green covered hill near the city of Ubud on the island of Bali. The unique landscapes, comfortable wooden houses, shaped pools, exotic plants and flowers are very popular with travelers to Bali. Ubud Hanging Gardens has everything to make tourists feel in harmony with nature.

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The striking plant splendor was created, thanks to John Pettigrew and William Warren. Talented landscape designers managed to preserve the environment as much as possible and organically blend traditional Balinese buildings into the tropical jungle. The legendary Hanging Gardens of Semiramis in Babylon, revered in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, became the prototype for the picturesque natural landscapes.

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Ubud Hanging Gardens Hotel has 38 luxurious rooms in the form of detached luxury villas. Each has its own private pool – a true luxury in a hot tropical climate! The pools are designed so that tourists bathing in them can admire the tops of tall palm trees, cocoa trees, bamboo thickets, relict ferns, wide banana leaves, flowering plumerias, hibiscus and orchids.

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The green slope offers a beautiful view of the ancient Dalem Segara temple on the neighboring hill, the jungle, rice fields and the Ayung River valley. Many colorful butterflies fly in the Hanging Gardens of Ubud. Small sized agile squirrels and tropical birds are frequent visitors, and small skittish lizards can be found basking in the sun on the hotel’s paths.

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Tourists vacationing here, go on an excursion to Ubud and visit the ancient temples. Those who wish, together with an instructor, can climb the stratovolcano Agung (3142 m). In addition, there are regular workshops for guests on cooking traditional Balinese dishes and sarong painting.

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Hotel

Officially, Ubud’s Hanging Gardens has a 5-star rating. Few places in the world welcome travelers with such genuine hospitality and friendliness. All the staff, from the receptionists at the lobby to the gardeners, smiles broadly when you meet them and makes every effort to ensure that the tourists’ vacation was at the highest level.

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The restaurant offers international, French and Balinese cuisine. It operates on a buffet basis and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There is also a “River Cafe” in Ubud’s Hanging Gardens, open from 12 noon to 6 pm. This cafe prepares delicious vegetable and fruit salads, smoothies and tea.

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From 10.00 to 23.00 the hotel opens the popular “Piano Bar”, which serves wine, beer, cocktails and soft drinks to suit all tastes. Adjacent to the bar is a two-level panoramic public swimming pool with a lounge area for those who want to sunbathe on sun loungers.

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Visitors to Ubud Hanging Gardens can get around the area on foot or in cable car cabins. This form of transportation is very convenient, because the buildings are located on different levels of the hill, so walking from the villa to the restaurant and from the river to the bar can be very tiring. There are two cable cars on the hillside. One links the lobby, private villas, boutique and library, and the other links the bar, river café and spa, which is located on the banks of the Ayung River.

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Villas

The guest houses are built on thick, tall stilts, which protects them from excess moisture. The roofs of the structures in Ubud’s Hanging Gardens are covered with alang-alang plant, the dried stems of which save the houses from tropical downpours. The buildings themselves are made of precious wood, so even in the hottest heat inside the villas are very comfortable and easy to breathe.

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In addition to pools, the villas have dedicated lounge areas, showers and bathrooms with mosaic floors. The interior of the villas is decorated according to the Baltic traditions. Locals are great connoisseurs of beauty, so the rooms are decorated with carved doors and furniture, small sculptures, elegant vases and fresh tropical flowers.

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Wellness

The hotel boasts a state-of-the-art Ayung Spa offering a host of wellness and beauty services. Ubud’s Hanging Gardens Spa is so popular with Bali vacationers that tourists from other island hotels come here as well.

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The spa offers massage, aromatherapy and reflexology sessions, wraps, facials, hair and body treatments, and yoga.

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Tour of Ubud

Vacationers at Ubud’s Hanging Gardens Villas are sure to explore the nearby city, which is considered Bali’s cultural capital. Ubud is built in the heart of the island. When the Islamization of Java began, many creative people and Javanese intellectuals moved to Bali, and especially to Ubud. At the beginning of the last century, artists working here were actively supported by the royal family, so art and creativity became integral attributes of the small town.

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Ubud has many stores and stalls selling paintings and handicrafts, museums and art galleries. There are several villages around the city whose inhabitants are excellent weavers, painters and stone and woodworkers. The Ubud Palace, the souvenir market and the Monkey Forest, home to monkeys, are considered the main local attractions.

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Since ancient times, Ubud has developed unconventional medicine. People come here to practice yoga, meditate and live in an ashram. There are many stores with natural cosmetics and all kinds of restaurants and cafes, where vegans and cheese-eaters like to visit.

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How to get there

Ubud Hanging Gardens is located in Payangan, half an hour’s drive from Ubud city. From the southern tip of the island of Bali, it takes 2-2.5 hours to get here, taking into account traffic. From Denpasar Airport, Kuta, Lovina, Sanur and Candidasa to Ubud there are shuttle buses and small bemo shuttles, and a free cab from the hotel to the center of Ubud.

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