Bali treehouse rental: jungle or sea view?

Aerial view of Samastiti Ubud Villa with private pool surrounded by lush jungle.

Bali does treehouses like nowhere else β€” but most of the ones you’ll find on the listicles are far from anything, beautiful for a night and impractical for a week. We built ours to be lived in. Samastiti has two: one in the jungle heart of Ubud, one above the sea in Lovina. Here’s how […]

Where to stay in Uluwatu: Bingin vs Padang Padang vs Uluwatu village

Street view of the white three-storey building at Bingin with arched timber doors and external stairs up to the Media Suite, scooters parked outside

The Bukit Peninsula hangs off the southern tip of Bali like an afterthought β€” dry, cliff-lined limestone where the rest of the island is green and volcanic. It’s a different microclimate, a different pace, and in many ways a different Bali: scrubby clifftops instead of rice terraces, a string of world-class surf breaks stacked one […]

Bingin & Uluwatu surf guide

The Penthouse Samastiti Bingin

A surf guide to Bingin, Uluwatu and the Bukit Peninsula – the reef breaks, the tides that make them, and how to read Bali’s south coast with respect.