Workaway in Demulih 🪷

When I began my journey on Java I did some research about workaway opportunities in Indonesia. A girl recommend workaways to me because often you stay at a family and get the chance to experience the culture and traditions of the locals in another way. I contacted Kadek, who offered volunteers to stay at his home or in his guest house in exchange for some work in his yoga Shala and guest house in his village in Demulih on Bali. We planned my stay for 5 days, and Kadek asked whether I could help him with gardening and also with his yoga classes that he offers for the people in his village.

His yoga shala and guest house is in the same village where his family lives and because he already had two volunteers who stayed at this familiy house, he asked me whether I could stay in his guest house. It is surrounded by a beautiful garden divided in four levels. On the highest level the beautiful yoga shala is located with a wonderful view on the garden. After touristy Canggu I immediately loved the place which is in the middle of nature. In the village life seemed to be still very traditional, almost every family has their own family temple. The other volunteers and me were probably the only tourists in the village.

Luckily I could switch the room because at first Kadek offered me a room with a lot of hornet nests and hornets flying around. After that (the memory of Denise being stung by a hornet on Java was still very lively😅) I happily welcomed the two frogs and geckos in my new room as my new room mates 😅 Even if the accommodation was very very simple (the mattress was so hard! 😃 and the bathroom was on the other side of the garden - without sink and couldn’t be closed 😃) it was magical to sleep in the guest house surrounded by the sounds of the nature. 😍Read more