Tamarind Spa

In the afternoon we took the hotel's shuttle back into Ubud to go to the Tamarind Spa for our mid-trip "tune up". What is interesting is that the Murni's Houses for tourists and Tamarind Spa was formerly the family's compound. It is typical of walled compounds we saw from the road during our travels. Traditionally, an extended family lives here with some houses, row houses and shared kitchen, living and temple area. Today it is a lovely tranquil setting for a spa.

Doug had a pedicure and loved it; Nancy had a Balinese spice scrub, hair cream treatment (suffering after no conditioner at any hotel for a month!) and a manicure/pedicure. Cost was about $75 CDN for everything and care and sanitation was as good if not better than at home.

While Nancy's treatment continued, Doug went back into the town centre for a haircut at a local barber shop and after that we met in the restaurant located above the shop and we had a very good Greek charcoal grilled dish called Kontosouvli before heading to a dance show

We arrived in plenty of time for the Legong Dance show which we had purchased that afternoon. The seating area was almost sold out for the performance.Read more