Tjampuhan Hotel

The Tjampuhan Hotel is a historic hotel in Ubud, on the island of Bali, Indonesia.[1]

It is on the site of Walter Spies's home[2] who was instrumental in establishing both Bali's modern art scene and its profile as an international tourist destination in the mid-twentieth century. The Spies house was built as a "studio cum residence cum hotel" and now forms part of a larger set of hotel villas owned by the family of Cokorde Gde Agung Sukawati.[3]

Campuhan means the "confluence of two rivers" in Balinese and also refers more generally to the area around this point in Ubud. The hotel overlooks the River Oos.[4] Robert Pringle writes that Campuhan "could serve as a metaphor for Spies' life work."[5] Tjampuhan is the older Dutch spelling of the word.

References

  1. ^ PERSIAN, MARITA (February 29, 2004). "Traum-Urlaub im Indischen Ozean Bali: Willkommen auf der Götter-Insel!". BZ (German). http://www.genios.de/r_googlearchiv/landing.html?START=CN0&DOKV_DB=bz&DOKV_NO=10810124. Retrieved 2009-11-03. "Luxus-Herberge: Das Tjampuhan Hotel in UbudFoto: Ullstein/Hölzl Seetempel Tanah Lot. Das Heiligtum wurde auf einem Felsen errichtet. ..." 
  2. ^ "Hotel Tjampuhan Spa". http://www.tjampuhanhotel.com/. Retrieved 2009-11-10. 
  3. ^ Tourism, development and terrorism in Bali, pg. 31 Michael Hitchcock and Nyoman Darma Putra, Ashgate, 2007
  4. ^ William Warren, Jill Gocher (2007). Asia's legendary hotels: the romance of travel. Singapore: Periplus Editions. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-7946-0174-4. 
  5. ^ A short history of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm, pg. 133 Robert Pringle, Allen & Unwin, 2004

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