Guesthouse & Eco Retreat Centre

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ITINERARY

Saturday 4: Arrival, check in to hotel, beautiful Jayakarta on Kuta Beach. Information meeting + getting to know each other. 8pm - dinner with bellydance performances at beautiful Khaima Moroccan Restaurant.

Sunday 5: Pick up at hotel, drive to Batukaru Mountain Retreat. Visit awesome Tana Loth sea temple on the way. Lunch at Tana Loht (not included) Drive through spectacular rice paddy scenery. Bring your cameras! Arrival at Batukaru, tea & snacks + info by Rebecca and Richard, our hosts. Dinner (something to look forward to, Rebecca is an awesome chef). Evening free to sleep, read, or drink wine and sing and chat with your new friends and our lovely host and hostess.

Monday 6: Breakfast, dance classes, tea & snacks, more dancing, lunch, even more dancing, basic rhythms & drumming for bellydancers (drums provided). Rest/shower, dinner. This evening some of the local drummers will join us for drumming and dancing around the bonfire under the stars. Feel free to join in with your zills, ladies. Let's make some noise!

Tuesday 7: Breakfast, dance classes, tea & snacks, more dancing, lunch, "Posture for Belydancers"-lecture, introductry class in Balinese dancing. Rest/shower, dinner. Capoeira; introductory class + demonstration by local experts. Rebecca's on site bellyshop will be open, so you can stock up on hip scarves, skirts etc.

Wednesday 8: Early breakfast. Daytrip to Lovina Beach on the north coast. Today our sore dance-muscles may rest for a day. There will be sightseeing and just relaxing on the beach or by the pool bar. This is also a wonderful opportunity for our non-dancing companions to spend some more time with us dance-maniacs. The day trip to Lovina is new to the retreat this year, and we are really excited about it. We will have dinner there, and be back at Batukaru in time to go to bed.

Thursday 9: Breakfast, dance classes, tea & snacks, more dancing, lunch, even more dancing. Rest/shower, dinner. This evening there will be Balinese gamelan orchestra and Balinese dance performance at Batukaru. "The real thing", not your average tourist show!

Friday 10: Breakfast, morning dance class, tea & snacks, departure - we're going back to Kuta. Settle in at Jayakarta Beach Hotel, afternoon free to explore or just relax. In the evening we go to beautiful Jimbaran Beach for a delicious meal on the beach, under the stars. If we're lucky some of the local singers and musicians will entertain us with the songs of our choice. Feel free to sing along.

Saturday 11: All day free to relax, go sightseeing, shopping, use your free SPA voucher, or practice for your performance at Khaima Restaurant. All participants are welcome to perform, but the restaurant needs to know ho many performers there will be, so please let us know asap if you wish to perform, preferably also what you will dance. This is the last night of the retreat, so make sure to exchange contact info with your new friends.

Sunday 12: Breakfast at the hotel, departure. Make sure to inform Yani about your flight details. She will take you to the airport. If you wish to stay in Bali some extra days, she is also the one who will make sure to get you a hotel room + organize activities (how about snorkeling, elephant safari, botanical gardens with meat-eating plants, more SPA, more cooking classes, horse riding, trekking...) and transport for you, everything at very good rates info@balitraveling.com

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