In my 25 years of living here, I’ve never seen rain start as early as October and even intensified during the Christmas holiday. With major flooding and huge winds.
Needless to say, this was putting a damper on everyone’s holiday in Bali.
Our family simply didn’t want to go anywhere.
When we received an invite from one of my wife's best friends we jumped at the opportunity as it was only a short 5-minute drive from our beachfront estate.
The party was a belated birthday party for an extraordinary woman Maryam Putu Doliveck who with her husband own and operate the Famous Floating Leaf Yoga retreat.
From left, Ary Johnson. Maryan. And my lovely wife and she's. |
Maryam is from The Balinese Royal Family of Karangasem and was raised learning the traditional dances, healing arts, and the culture of Bali.
Her skills in all of these are a big feature of the retreat.
Her skills as a Hostess were also obvious.
She and her professional staff prepared an Exotic, Bountiful buffet which certainly made-up for all the negative weather in previous days.
Mikaku & Maryam Doliveck |
I soon found myself strolling around the retreat and taking photos of it’s many interesting features many, of which are result of her husband’s Mikaku Doliveck artistic talents who was an Art and Photography Professor for over 18 years.
It was a great evening meeting new friends, including one person who owned a 51-foot yacht of the same model that I had sailed from Hawaii to here
We had plenty of sailor’s yarns to share.
Our son Darius enjoyed the fact there were many teenagers his age there as well.More about the Floating Leaf and It's Owners
Mikaku
Doliveck, owner, has been an Art and Photography Professor for over 18
years, and leads the photography tours. He has written numerous articles
on Bali’s culture, art, mysticism, healers and more.
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