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Villa Mana is surrounded on three sides by natural river stone walls that rise up to 20 feet. The entry to the villa is over a stone and wood bridge that crosses a two-foot deep pool made from black candi stone. Falling into this pool and down the 16-foot perimeter stone wall is a gentle cascade of water. As well as being an architectural feature of the Villa, this entrance pool also makes for a wonderful children's paddling pool. To the left of the entrance pool is a flat grass lawn with sun lounges and palm trees.

The entrance bridge leads into the reception area, main living room and dining area. Immediately, from here, one's attention is drawn to the highlight of Villa Mana; the amazing view of Bali's famous rice terraces and at night, magical sunsets. The floor is continuous poured black concrete and walls are a combination of stone and wood. The ceiling height throughout the house is 3.7 meters giving a feeling of continuous space. The main dining area has a large wooden dinning table that can seat 12.

To the left of the living and dining area are the three principle en-suite bedrooms. The master bedroom faces the rice terraces and, as with all bedrooms, the floor to ceiling glass doors can be fully opened. In the master bedroom, there is separate dressing area and a very large bathroom with a Japanese wooden bath, a rain shower and a palm tree set under a sky light.

The other two en-suite bedrooms face the flat lawn and again the glass doors can be fully opened, leading into the garden. One bathroom has a Japanese wooden tub with rain shower while the other has a large sunken tub with rain shower.

To the right of the living room is an open plan kitchen, which is separated from the living area by a floor to ceiling stone wall. The kitchen has state of the art cooking facilities and guests are welcome to cook at any time together with the chef or on their own. Behind the kitchen and bordering the entrance pool is a breakfast dining table that can seat 12.

Further down beyond the kitchen, is a very large air-conditioned entertainment room with a 2.3 by 1.2 meter satellite projection screen TV, a selection of films, books, toys and games.

Opposite the entertainment room are two additional bedrooms. One room has a king size bed while the second room has a queen bed. The second room also has a writing desk, where the computer is located—guests are welcome to use the dial-up Internet access. Both of these rooms share a large bathroom with a sunken tub, rain shower and live palm tree that reaches up toward a skylight.

Along the entire front of the house is a covered patio. Near to the kitchen area on the patio is a dinning table with benches that can seat 12. Outside of the master bedroom is a lounge area. Beyond this patio is wooden decking that leads up to the teak lined infinity pool. The pool is designed in the style of Japanese onsen baths with four infinity edges over which the water flows. The pool is 18 x 7 meters and is made from black candi stone tiles. On the deck around the pool are 200-year-old frangipani trees which provide shade and beauty. At the right end of the pool there are sun lounges and a bale (covered seating area). Behind the bale is an additional open-air bathroom with outdoor shower.

Stairs leading down from the bale take one on to a decked walkway across the front of the property. There is a cascade of water falling from the pool down one side and on the other side an amazing vista of the rice terraces. At the end of this deck there is a whirlpool which floats above the rice terraces .

 
 
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