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...NEKA Suteja Neka is Ubud's foremost art dealer and patron, and his gallery, tel: (62 361) 975 034, houses much good Balinese art, including beautiful examples of traditional shadow puppets. These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit...
...museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child's face and the steady posture of the animal...
...anything you like, the traditional Balinese architecture of the house and compound makes the visit well worth the trip. The gallery has no phone, but your hotel concierge will know how to find it. NEKA Suteja Neka is Ubud's foremost art dealer and patron, and his gallery, tel: (62-361) 975 034, houses much good Balinese art, including beautiful examples of traditional shadow puppets. These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate...
...such prototype is Infini-tea, tel: (9180) 5114 8810, a restaurant-cum-tea room marketed as the first of its kind in India. Gaurav Saria, the chef-patron, belongs to a family that owns several tea estates in Darjeeling. His mission is to cleanse the palate of a country used to thick, milky, spiced chai?hence a menu that includes ginger tea, white tea (brewed from the youngest tea leaves), and organic Nilgiri, Darjeeling and Assam teas, all served in white china, with an hourglass to measure brewing time. Reasonably priced European fare?quiches, bruschetta, pastas and such?is offered...
...sniffing out good food and value - something that makes many restaurateurs use Bangalore as a testing ground for new concepts. One such prototype is Infini-tea, tel: (91-80) 5114 8810, a restaurant-cum-tea room marketed as the first of its kind in India. Gaurav Saria, the chef-patron, belongs to a family that owns several tea estates in Darjeeling. His mission is to cleanse the palate of a country used to thick, milky, spiced chai - hence a menu that includes ginger tea, white tea (brewed from the youngest tea leaves), and organic Nilgiri, Darjeeling and Assam teas...