This was my trip to a bamboo hotel before the COVID-19.  I went to hotel which was made of bamboo. It is called Bambu Indah Resort, and in English means, beautiful bamboo.

I went on this trip to look around the hotel. You could say that this is my Bamboo Hotel Tour 😉.

 A photo of the bridge to the lobby.

 Some nice and comfortable sofa in the lobby,  and at the back, was the open kitchen restaurant.

It was about 3 PM when we got to the lobby hotel. We met Ms. Kim who explained the hotel and its facility. The hotel lobby was quite spacious and it was connected to an open kitchen restaurant.

All the lobby building was made from bamboo, from the pillars, the roof, the tables, and the chairs, It was a beautiful lobby and restaurant.

 Bamboo pillars, bamboo roofs, and wooden tables and chairs in the open-kitchen restaurant near the hotel lobby.

The restaurant serves Indonesian cuisine. Many of the ingredients for cooking such as the spices and vegetables were from the hotel garden.

 As you guess, the kitchen buildings, the tables, and everything else was made from bamboo.
 The harvested these vegetables in the hotel garden/farm.

The Houses

Instead of calling them rooms, the places for guests to stay were just houses. These houses spread out in the garden area close to the lobby.

 These were the houses among many trees and vegetable farms.

 One of the houses, it had 2 floors.

 The bedroom on the second floor.

One of the houses called the Tree House was being renovated. According to the staff, it probably ready after two months (from the time this post is written).

 The treehouse was being renovated.

There are houses even that you could only reach by using a lift because it is located down in the river bank.
When we finished looking at the house on the upper level near the lobby, we descended with a lift down to the river bank. The lift was also made from bamboo (part of it) which only accommodates 2 persons.

 Entering the lift to go down.

 As we descended, I took photos of the lift, felt like we were going down inside a well

. We got out the lift through a small tunnel.

It as a strange experience descending in the lift. Felt like going into a small well or cave. It was dark and scary. Believe me.

The River Bank Area

Getting out of the lift, I ended up in a tunnel. Some people may feel chlostropobic because of this. Walking along the tunnel for 30 seconds, I could see the sunlight again.

I arrived just nearby a small river. There was an interesting bamboo bridge that I had to walk past. The bridge shook like a boat on the ocean as I walked on it. At the end of the bridge, a staff came and lead the way to walk along the riverbank, and finally descended to round stairs to another bigger river bank.

 Then we crossed this bamboo bridge.

 Looking down to even lower area, I could see the natural spring swimming pool and a restaurant

. You could also have your food served in this thing hanging by the river.

From the round stair, I could see a restaurant, natural swimming pools, and some houses on the cliff. We walked to the restaurant, and from there the view of the river and the swimming pool was better.

There were some houses there, but many of them were occupied. There was one that we could look at. It was called the glasshouse.
 The bedroom of the glasshouse.

 The door to the glasshouse on the second floor.

The staff took me and my client to enter the glasshouse located in a rice field near the river bank. Most of the walls were made of glass. It was a different sensation I feel to stay in this kind of house.

After visiting this glasshouse, we went back to the lobby and said goodbye.
 More houses behind the trees on the cliff.

Final Words

This hotel is an eco-friendly hotel. They work seriously to use natural products and eliminate plastics. Most of the buildings, as it names implies, use bamboo and wood.
The location is not far from the main town of Ubud, but in an area that was quite lush and beautiful near river banks. It provides such a great retreat to the visitors.

Thanks for reading.