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Turkish delight in Java

One sip of coffee is all it takes to conjure images of the rolling lawns and volcano-flanked spas and pools at the Losari Coffee Plantation in Java, says Suna Kanga in The Straits Times (Singapore). The eco-resort is an assortment of restored wooden Javan houses, Turkish-inspired steam baths and old colonial manor houses. New arrivals are welcomed with a shower of flowers as strains of traditional gamelan music waft through the old railway station that houses the reception office, the gateway to 32 individual villas that peep through the trees beyond. The minstrels at work are part of a community project that offers education and work training to more than 180 locals who tend to the plantation. While they set to work, guests can sit back on the veranda and look out to the peaks beyond or over the infinity pool, before strolling down to the orange porticos of the steam baths to indulge in a soak and a massage. The surrounding countryside is dotted with temples, eco-walks, thermal springs and forested slopes, and "thrill seekers can climb to the peak of Mount Merapi, Java's most active volcano, for a glorious view of flowing lava."

 

 

 

 

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