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Home to Bali's famous twin-tier jungle infinity pool, a dramatic 44-villa resort on a steep Ayung-gorge slope near Ubud, with private pools and a funicular down to the villas.
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Award Winner 2019
World's Most Stunning Views Hotel
Need To Know
- 44 villas, each with a private pool over the jungle
- Home to the famous twin-tier infinity pool (architect Gordon Shaw)
- Villas reached from reception by a private funicular
- Deep in the Payangan gorge, around 30 minutes from central Ubud
- Three Elements restaurant, a wine cellar, and a riverside spa
- The signature floating boat dinner served in your villa pool
- Around an hour from Denpasar airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The pool — the twin-tier infinity pool, designed by architect Gordon Shaw, juts out over the Ayung gorge and is among the most recognised hotel pools in the world.
- The arrival — you descend from the reception to the villas by a private funicular through the rainforest, which sets the tone before you have even unpacked.
- The villas — all 44 have their own private pool over the jungle, with open-air living and dining and a mix of contemporary and Balinese design.
- The dining — a floating boat dinner served in your own villa pool is the signature, alongside Three Elements restaurant, a wine cellar and afternoon tea.
- The setting — the steep Payangan gorge northwest of Ubud, looking across the Ayung to an ancient temple, with monkeys, mist and the sound of the river.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Hanging Gardens of Bali Desa Buahan, Payangan, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Travel Info
Hanging Gardens is at Desa Buahan, Payangan, deep in the Ayung gorge northwest of Ubud — about 30 minutes from central Ubud and an hour from Denpasar airport. It is remote rather than walkable; guests arrive by car, and the hotel runs transfers.
Nearby Places
Denpasar International Airport (DPS)
50km
Last Updated: 2026-06-22
Expert Review
Origins
Hanging Gardens of Bali was completed in 2005, built by some 700 local craftsmen using traditional materials and indigenous techniques on a near-impossible site: a 45-degree slope dropping into the Ayung River gorge at Payangan, northwest of Ubud. The resort was laid out on Feng Shui principles — the name itself nods to stability and continuity — which, given the gradient, was as much engineering necessity as philosophy.
Its centrepiece became among the most recognised images in luxury hospitality: a twin-tier infinity pool, designed by architect Gordon Shaw, that juts out over the gorge and appears to spill into the rainforest below. The pool has been photographed endlessly and is the reason many guests come; that it still holds up two decades on, amid a crowded field of Bali jungle resorts, says something about how well it was conceived.
The resort itself is dramatic by nature of the site. Reception sits at the top, and guests descend to the villas by a private funicular through the trees — a piece of theatre that doubles as practical transport on so steep a slope. There are 44 villas, each with its own private pool over the jungle, open-air living and dining, and a mix of contemporary comfort and Balinese craft. Below, the Ayung runs through the gorge, an ancient temple sits across the valley, and the resident monkeys are a regular, uninvited pleasure.
Top Secret
Watch the pool, not just from it. The resident monkeys treat the villa pools as their own, and a stay here often includes a cheeky visitor or two dropping by while you swim — less a nuisance than a reminder of how completely the resort sits inside the jungle. It is the kind of thing the brochures cannot stage, and it tends to be what guests remember.
The Review
Hanging Gardens of Bali is built around one of Bali's best-known sights — the twin-tier infinity pool, designed by architect Gordon Shaw, that juts out over the Ayung gorge and appears to pour into the rainforest. Twenty years on it remains the reason to come, and the resort around it lives up to the billing: dramatic, theatrical, and genuinely unlike anywhere else on the island.
The arrival sets the tone — a funicular ride down through the jungle from reception to the villas — and the 44 villas each have a private pool over the canopy, with open-air living and a mix of Balinese craft and contemporary comfort. Dining is a strength: the signature floating boat dinner served in your own villa pool, Three Elements restaurant and a serious wine cellar, and the riverside spa makes the most of the Ayung setting.
The honest caveat is the location and the gradient. This is deep in the Payangan gorge, around half an hour from central Ubud and not remotely walkable, and the resort's vertical layout means a lot of steps and funicular rides — magical for most, a genuine consideration for anyone with limited mobility. For couples and families who want the drama of the jungle and Bali's most photographed pool, on a site no one would dare build today, Hanging Gardens has no real equal.
