Seminyak is located ten minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport on the western sunset shore of South Bali. Sitting mid-way along a crescent beach that sweeps for miles from the Uluwatu Peninsula to the south all the way to distant Tanah Lot Temple to the north, Seminyak is one of a strip of coastal villages along this prized section of Bali Coast and has emerged as the contemporary destination for fun seekers and jet setters from around the world. Comprised of a busy main road about two blocks from the coast and a labyrinth of small lanes leading to and from the beach, Seminyak is a colorful combination of local Balinese life mixed in with an endless variety of shops, boutiques, clubs, restaurants, discoteques and accomodations ranging from the absurdly primitive to the outrageously luxurious. There is nothing about Seminyak that is ordinary. It is an extraordinary international community where one can sit at any sidewalk cafe and hear ten languages spoken simultaneously at any time day or night.

In the old days one of the things that Bali was known for world over was the famous one dollar massage on the beach, slathered in coconut oil, applied by an enthusiastic village lady. Today the village ladies are still there waiting for you on the beach and their rates have not changed much at all, but what has changed is if you don't want that sand in your hair you can just walk on over to any one of numerous luxuriant spas complete with yogurt and honey baths, mineral mud treatments, exfoliations, facials, manicures, pedicures, botox treatments and just about anything else you could ever find in Paris, but at prices that are so reasonable that you find yourself making a daily ritual of total pampering.