This elegant hotel offers its guests a combination of balinese architecture and hospitality the building was once a guesthouse for the balinese royal family founded in 1928 during the heyday of round the world tours the hotel is set in an area which inspired holy man resi markandya to build the nearby besakih temple considered by the balinese to be the centre for worship and ceremony guests may witness the living devotion of the balinese to the gods symbolised through daily offerings of ric