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    Sep 06, 2022 4 minutes

    Five-star luxury comes to Bali’s Nusa Penida

    ith its spectacular beaches and Insta-worthy rock formations, it was only a matter of time before Nusa Penida—the largest of three islands lying off the southeast coast of Bali, a 30-minute speedboat ride away—got its first upscale resort. And that time is now. Set on a hillside above Penida’s forest-fringed Gamat Bay, MĀUA by Swiss-Belhotel debuted earlier this year with 25 pool villas designed in modernist fashion by French architect Pascal Mory, a devotee of Le Corbusier. Together with a spa, a 20-meter-long main swimming pool, and farm-to-table restaurant Kōwhai, they overlook the neighboring isle of Nusa Ceningan and the Badung Strait, which in turn are backdropped by the Bali mainland and, on a clear

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