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The former estate of art collector Hendra Hadiprana, now an intimate 24-villa resort hung with his collection, on six hectares of working Ubud rice paddies.
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Need To Know
- 24 villas across six hectares of gardens and rice paddies
- The former estate of art collector Hendra Hadiprana
- Original Balinese artworks throughout; own Kecak amphitheatre
- Near Goa Gajah, east of central Ubud; free daytime shuttle
- The Tempayan restaurant under Chef Dean Nor; a paddy-facing spa
- Private butler service; family-friendly, with a two-bedroom villa
- Around an hour from Denpasar airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The art — the resort was the private estate of Hendra Hadiprana, one of Indonesia's foremost art collectors, and every villa hangs with original Balinese works from his collection.
- The scale — just 24 villas across six hectares of gardens and working rice paddies, most of the land left to the fields, so the sense of space and privacy is rare for Ubud.
- The amphitheatre — the resort stages the Kecak fire dance in its own amphitheatre, performed by a troupe of fifty to seventy men and boys from the surrounding village.
- The service — a private butler for every villa, welcome cocktails and canapes, daily fruit, rice-paddy tours and art classes with a local painter among the touches.
- The setting — Mount Agung sunrises over the paddies, a lotus pond with black and white swans, and a 25-metre pool at the edge of the rice fields.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Jalan Goa Gajah, Tengkulak Kaja Ubud, Gianyar Bali 80571, Indonesia
Travel Info
Tanah Gajah is on Jalan Goa Gajah at Tengkulak Kaja, by the Goa Gajah temple east of central Ubud; the Monkey Forest is under three kilometres off, and a free shuttle runs into town. Denpasar airport is around an hour.
Nearby Places
Ngurah Rai International Airport
27800m
Ubud Monkey Forest
2800m
Last Updated: 2026-06-22
Expert Review
Origins
Tanah Gajah was, for decades, a private estate. It belonged to Hendra Hadiprana, one of Indonesia's most respected art collectors and gallerists, who built it among the rice fields east of Ubud and filled it with his collection. When it became a resort — for years run under different management, and now as Tanah Gajah, a Resort by Hadiprana — the art stayed: every villa hangs with original Balinese works, and the estate retains the feel of a collector's private retreat rather than a hotel.
It is intimate by design. Just 24 villas are spread across six hectares, the great majority of the land left as gardens and working rice paddies that local farmers still cultivate, which gives the place a sense of space and quiet unusual for Ubud. The villas range from one-bedroom suites to private-pool villas and a two-bedroom family villa, up to the original 570-square-metre Hadiprana Estate; all come with a private butler. A lotus pond with black and white swans, Mount Agung rising beyond the fields at sunrise, and a 25-metre pool at the paddies' edge complete the setting.
The cultural thread is genuine, not decorative. The resort has its own amphitheatre, where a troupe of fifty to seventy men and boys from the neighbouring village performs the Kecak fire dance — giving the performers a stage and the tradition a home. Dining is at The Tempayan, an open-air pavilion under Singaporean executive chef Dean Nor, where the rice served alongside the Balinese and Western dishes is grown in the surrounding fields. Art classes with a local painter, rice-paddy walks and cooking lessons round out a stay that leans romantic but welcomes families too.
Top Secret
Walk the gardens at first light. The early morning gives the clearest view of Mount Agung, Bali's most sacred mountain, rising beyond the paddies before the day's haze sets in — and before the lotus and lily flowers close against the midday heat. Keep an eye on the ponds while you are out: the resident monitor lizards are most often seen swimming across them in the early hours, an unexpected sight in so cultivated a setting.
The Review
Tanah Gajah, a Resort by Hadiprana, is the most characterful of Ubud's luxury villa resorts, and the reason is its provenance. It was the private estate of the late Hendra Hadiprana, a respected Indonesian art collector, and it still feels like one: 24 villas hung with original Balinese art, spread across six hectares of gardens and working rice paddies, with the unhurried air of somewhere designed for one family rather than a hotel's worth of guests.
The villas are large and art-filled, the service is genuinely exceptional — a butler for every villa, welcome cocktails, daily fruit, no request refused — and the cultural programming is real, from the Kecak fire dance in the resort's own amphitheatre to art classes with a local painter. Dining at The Tempayan, under Singaporean chef Dean Nor, makes a point of the rice grown in the surrounding fields. It is romantic by temperament, though a two-bedroom family villa and easy children's welcome make it work for families too.
The trade-off is location rather than quality: this is the Goa Gajah side, east of central Ubud, so the markets and restaurants are a short shuttle rather than a step away — which suits the kind of guest who comes for the art, the paddies and the quiet over a town-centre base. For a singular, culturally rich and deeply comfortable stay in Ubud, with a genuine art-collection pedigree behind it, Tanah Gajah is hard to match.
