
Alila Villas Uluwatu
Uluwatu, Indonesia
No river runs across the Bukit, a limestone reef the land has lifted at the tip of Bali: the island's rice fields stop at the isthmus. At the point, the temple of Luhur Uluwatu, built of coral stone, stands on the edge of a cliff above the Indian Ocean; the Javanese priest Nirartha is said to have departed this world there without leaving a body behind. Below, Suluban beach is reached through a cleft in the rock, and that is the way surfers go out to the swell.