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With over 17,000 islands, the Indonesian archipelago has enough travel possibilities to exhaust a lifetime. But if all you can spare is a few days, consider the microcosm that is Desa Seni, desaseni.com. At this Balinese resort, the accommodation consists of 10 traditional wooden homes, offering one, two or three bedrooms each. Houses are in various ethnic styles and have been imported from different regions of Indonesia before being rebuilt and refurbished. Some are over a century old. They are laid out in the manner of a typical village, and decorated with handicrafts, antiques and paintings from all over...
...Bali known for its bucolic tranquility-isn't as contrived as you would expect. Founders Howard Klein and Tom Talucci have lived in Indonesia for over 10 years, and have traveled its islands extensively. The insights they have garnered, as well as their evident good taste, lend the resort an unaffected charm. "We always wondered why no one replicated what it's like to live a village lifestyle," says Klein, before laughingly admitting that having 80 satellite-TV channels in every house (as well as Internet access and air-conditioning) is hardly typical of rural Indonesia...
...Desa Seni also functions as a wellness retreat. Massages and body wraps are available at the spa, and yoga classes are offered in a beautiful pavilion overlooking paddy fields and a temple. The resort has its own organic gardens, and the restaurant-housed in a building with a traditional Sumatran peaked roof-is the setting for light, healthy cuisine, with many vegan and vegetarian choices. "We grow most of the food we serve," explains Talucci, who worked in Chicago's restaurant industry for 15 years. "For us, organic is being in touch with nature and yourself...
...order to survive, though, club sports have had to resort to drastic fundraising techniques to help pay their way through national tournaments and even standard intercollegiate play. Danielle J. Alexander ’09, a member of the women’s rugby team, said, “You have to get really creative sometimes and you feel really unsupported by the rest of the college community.” The women’s rugby team had to test this “creativity” last year by going door-to-door and asking students for their laundry...
...users of the Youth House had a just cause, but I have lost all sympathy for them when they resort to such methods," says Kevin Rasmussen, 40, a builder trying to maneuver his bicycle past the police line blocking the street to where Youth House stood. "In fact what they need is a hard kick where the sun doesn't shine...