Strung along Jimbaran Bay's western shore, where a sweep of white sand meets the calm waters of the Indian Ocean, a collection of thatched bungalows set within ten acres of tropical garden established one of Bali's earliest templates for resort design. Jimbaran Puri, now part of the Belmond portfolio, was conceived by California-based designer Peter Muller in the early 1990s as a conscious rejection of the monolithic hotel block — low-slung alang-alang thatched pavilions dispersed across manicured lawns planted with coconut palms and frangipani, each structure oriented to preserve sightlines across the grounds toward the sea. The 41 one- and two-storey bungalows draw on the vernacular architecture of traditional Balinese compounds, their whitewashed masonry walls and steeply pitched roofs recalling the domestic scale of a Balinese village rather than international resort convention. Inside, the rooms carry polished travertine floors, carved dark-timber bed platforms, and four-poster canopied beds draped in white cotton, the exposed alang-alang ceilings rising dramatically above to reveal their full structural geometry. Ikat-patterned textiles and carved headboard panels in the Balinese tradition give the interiors a specific cultural grounding that avoids generic tropical decoration. The beachfront restaurant, a soaring open-sided structure of lashed bamboo columns and rattan pendant lamps, frames the bay at dusk through its entirely open perimeter — a room that is essentially a sheltered extension of the beach itself, with teak and rattan armchairs arranged around candlelit tables on a stone-flagged floor.

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