Jiwa Laut Eco Limasan "Double Twins Bungalows"

You are up to immerse yourself into our Home where true nature, healthy life style and tranquility reign. A break to boost inner energy for your Mind,Body&Soul. A place where social distancing is for real. You can experience Eco simple life back to nature and Javanese traditions and culture. JiwaLaut is a sustainable extended family empowering villagers through projects and activities guests can support. Our purpose is to make you exploring our gems, meet locals & leave you lasting memories. Our aim is not just to offer an accommodation but a quite relaxing country side “eco and social minded” experience; a home away from home, far from big city life style and out of the beaten foreign tourists tracks. This Limasan is the both Twin Limasans I and II to be rented as a whole house, with two private rooms and bedroom with private entrance, balcony and bathroom, with a small common space we open to allow you to go from obe to the other. We built two bungalows under one roof. Its first aim was to build a modern life style family house, where parents and children have privacy. Can be also for 2 couple travelling together and want to get some privacy. There is one smaller and one bigger room. The first concept was to build a more simple and local style Limasan House than our other architect designed houses. It was created by our local villagers. It was inspired by their traditional building knowledge and the knowledge they got working on the more modern and eco sustainable work on the first Joglo Villa and Balai buildings, of the architect Yu Sing of Akanoma from Bandung. It was built using only local material, acacia wood and bamboo from sustainable plantation. We collect rain water from the roof into a big water tank located inside the building fondations. We treat through a natural system your gray water into a fish pound and last but not least your toilet output will produce biogaz and great fertilizer to grow organic vegetable and fruits to the future guests. We also rent out for honeymooners/couples our Deluxe "Omah Bamboo" Honeymoon bungalow, or our Rumah Bukit “Wild Haven” for 2-4people. We also rent for small groups or families up to 8 people our traditional Joglo stylish Villa family house. HOST TABLE Healthy organic or natural locavore "home cuisine" for cleansing your body & enlighten your soul as breakfast and/or lunch, snacks and dinner. We would appreciate your order at least a day in advance as fresh slow food take time to be harvested and prepared. Our meals are traditional farmer and fishermen inspired local dishes bringing you what the surrounding environment freshly produce into your plate with taste and modern creativity. For all our meals we ask you a flat rate of 45K rupiah per person (50k rupiah during indonesian school holidays because of the increase of food products). It is included water and tea and organic local coffee for breakfast. For longer stay you can also pay it in advance through Airbnb on request to avoid to have to bring to many cash. We are lucky to have women from our village community which are fabulous gastronome and cooks from generations on, preparing this traditional tasty meals with love and passion. Thanks to you they get the opportunity to get out of their house kitchen and be empowered and recognized as Chef, offering you high quality home cooking. We don't have menu but they will cook a single dish decided in the morning following season and what they got from the farmers, market and fishermen. Unlike most of eateries we like to offer bigger portions of fruits and vegetable. The meal are then vegetables, with our ancient red rice grain or gluten free noodle or any local root like cassava (manioc) with fresh catch of the day from the ocean or alternative vegetarian/vegan traditional meals. Local people used to eat most of the days vegetarian, having fish only a few time a week and meat only for special days when they sacrified one of their animal. They try to follow their traditional customs which was very locavore, using product ultra local from the costal area and the salt being the longest travelling distance product, about 150km, volcanic pure natural salt. Our suppliers still work following traditions, as small scale artisans and farmers with passion of doing what they love. Some of our superstar products: - Fresh Moringa leaves and flowers (expensive superfood in western countries) from our permaculture trees, to make omelette, soup, special curry soup and more. - Fresh organic coconut, to make fresh curries, drinks, sugar and coconut oil for cooking. (We are 100% Palm Oil free here). - Local organic tempe, fermented soya beens, in teck wood leaves and tofu. - Mocaf flour. Fermented Cassava flour (manioc). The best local roots transformed into a gluten free tasty flour to cook you fried banana and many more. (We don't use imported GMO wheat floor) - Eggs and chicken. Highest standard of animal best treatment. Guaranty 100% free range around the village and the fields and of course as organic as it can be. (Chicken has to be ordered in advance and subject to additional price). - Seafood and fish. Catch of the day from the local fishermen, using traditional boats and sustainable seasonal fishing methods. Guaranty no illegal or farming fishes or shrimps. - Herbal tea. We love to prepare our special jamu homemade herbal tea (detox and increase stamina) with ginger, turmeric, lemongrass, cinnamon and other local wood herbs/spices. - The morning coffee is an organic local grain coffee robusta from small producers from Menoreh mountain selected by our friend prepared with french press or with It. We can adapt to any allergy like gluten free or any diet like vegan vegetarian, pescarian etc... to meet your needs. We don't use MSG, preservative or ready made industrial products. Your host is graduated in food engineering and specialist in nutrition for any advise you may need. The house is within walking distance, about 100 meters, 2-3 minutes, from the pristine quite Watu Kodok white clean sandy beach where you can sunbathe, relax, meditate, enjoy drinking a fresh coconut, eating a nasi goreng and swim if you are skilled swimmers (it is open indian ocean with high amplitude tides coefficient) and the waves can be big depending on the season. However don't worry too much we swim often here without problem. Just be aware and prepared. You can even try bodyboarding for the adventurous one. (we have one snorkling gear, swimming (Hidden by Airbnb) s, two body boards and one old surfboard.) The alternative for enjoying the ocean safely are 2 swimming lagoons at the neighbor beach Drini. One not deep for children and non swimmers and another one further, within walking distance, our favorite lagoon, protected from big waves, which is perfect and safe for swimming and snorkeling when the tide is right (around mid tide). We recommend to bring lycra to protect from the sun and booties as you may encounter at some places natural hazard as sharp rocks, urchins, corals or anything that may heart your foot. We are at the beach but we are so much more than a stay at a beautiful beach. We have beautiful farming fields, country side and forest as back yard. Traditional villages and many karstic caves to be explored. We are primary an environmental and sustainable learning center to show that living using one planet is not such a terrific life but the other way around as some of us are ex-city people :-) We are also a Social and Cultural learning center. We are passionate about Javanese local culture, music and arts and like sharing social experience with local people. We like to introduce you to social activities which are our highlight, make us very different if you are interested. We also recommend to enjoy our garden and neighbor farmers with their cows and goats. Don't hesitate to ask us for an introducing tour around the property to show you the hidden places and best view and also how works our sustainable compound, with black water treatment and biogas, grey water treatment system, eco architecture, permaculture garden, the rain water tank collectors. We just ask people to put an up to your heart donation into our donation box to support our projects and make possible our activities to continue as we have high maintenance cost. We offer free hammock on every bungalows front balcony and additional if you want to hang one anywhere on the garden We are part of the community Refillmybottle. We offer safe drinking mountain water for refill your own bottle. We just ask you to put a minimum of (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) rp per small bottle and (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) rp for big bottle into the donation box to able us to finance our project of banning the use of single use plastic objects, Ecobricks making and the beach cleaning to keep the beach nice for all. We have an affordable car and local drivers available for bringing you around. The villagers rent scooter/motor to explore around. Free access to our hill top gazebo and bench for meditation and our balai building for workshop, meditation, Yogya, Pilate, children playground or whatsoever inside activities you may want to do by yourself on your own for free. We are not business hotel professional as we come from different fields. Our primary activity is to run our projects and experiments. We try to give the best hospitality from our deep heart to our guests, like hosting family or friends to make our place different from a resort. Our interaction with guests is up to our guests willing to have any with us and our extended community family and of course depends on our presence and availability with our program schedule. If you want to be sure to meet the Host and Founder of Jiwa Laut, book and ask in advance, so she can adjust her busy planning. We all have side activities to support ourself. At least there is always someone present on site 24h, however some of us have very very limited english. Of course we are willing to share with you our natural surrounding environment, knowledge, philosophy and spirituality and alternative way of life avoiding plastic and high consumerism city life style, close to nature. We can introduce you to local traditions and people living around us. We are willing to show and offer you experiences, activities and bringing you around if you want to. This way your money spent during activities will be shared to our extended communities and used to finance projects. Which is the reason why we opened our Community to Airbnb. You will never feel bored even if you are on your own. We work as a collective mix of city and local people wanting to change to a more healthy happy lifestyle or for the others maintain their traditional life style away from the lucre of modern city life. Here it is Woman Power as the 2 women of the group are the real decisions makers ;-) The founder is Ira a local eco social entrepreneur woman from Jogja born in Papua. She can share her nutrition knowledge about healthy life style, local interior design and furniture, her passion about Javanese culture and spirituality, deep meditation and metaphysic, and her love for nature, ocean, animals and sharing with others. Her husband also living here, is from the alps mountains. Abandoned skis, his passion for avant guard electronic music and his corporate job to retreat to a more stressless, sustainable life. Dedicating himself as the house man, helping, empowering people in needs and protect nature and animals. Having one of his background in coaching, psychology and mindfulness meditation. Don't hesitate to ask him for advise if needed. We have our “chef” and “homebody”, who will make you feel homey and cook for you home made tasty healthy meals. She likes to take care of children, so yours will adopt her very quickly. You can learn a lot from her from local cooking and more. She often get the help of her young sister which is also our trainee. We have our “jack of all trades” who can fix almost everything to make us able to survive into the “wild”. He is also our driver and guide available for pick up/drop off and bringing people around. He is also the local Javanese man who open the doors to local communities and people, where you will never be able to enter on your own and allow you to enjoy special local activities and experiences. Last but not least we have our local healer/massage man, specialist of Javanese culture and language, by passion a deep meditation in cave expert and by the side our guide man to the holy caves and surrounding. He will do is best to fix any unbalanced and stress, avoiding your energy flow properly inside your body. Applying hundred of years acupressure local traditions technics from level 1 to level 5 of strong pressure. Nobody ever got over 3, ready to give a go and break to number 4 level? And then we have all the villagers living some km away, coming for the day farming, fishing or working at the beach warungs. 1) The pristine white sandy beach of Watu Kodok (cleanest beach around). About 100 walking meters away with one of the best sunrise and sunset on the sea (2 hills tops look out surrounding the beach and some other nearby on a short hike like Kosakora, Kukup, Drini). The beach is open to the Indian Ocean and its waves. For good swimmers only. We can introduce you with the location of our swimming "lagoon" away from the crowd where you can swim and snorkel safely when the tide is right. 2) We are passionate and love meditation. If you want to learn or practice meditation you are at the right place. We can help you with different technics. 3) Exclusive, we can bring you for a local life "Javanese" experience, at our traditional farmer village community, just a couple of KM inland. It is a non touristic total immersion and the level of positive energy and experience reward that you will bring back home depends on you and how you will open yourself to the people and let it go during the activities. You can trek to the village through Bamboo forest (about 2 hours) or we can drive you there with local farmer pick up traditional truck. We have 3 activities: The first one, the most adventurous you will be able to descend a non touristic adventurous karstic cave « Jurassic world » hole of about with safe ropes. Explore (speleology style) an underground horizontal holy pre-islam karstic (stalagmite/stalactite) Javanese last Hindu King Bramijaya V, meditating cave. We can even guide you for a deep Kejawen meditation experience there. It is still a bit adventurous and you may have to deal with your own fears if you have any. After that you may enjoy a local traditional dinner and drinks at one of the villagers house and sharing their life at the edge of the modern and ancient world. We will end this experience with a gamelan evening workshop with the local village band where we will all play together traditional Javanese partition inspired from Ramayana stories. 4) we can bring you also to traditional local ceremonies if there is any at the time you are here. Mostly during the month after Ramadan, Equinox, full moons and Javanese New Year. Some are supra natural experience of trance dance like Jatilan or Rasulan (cleansing) or just traditions or religious like end of Ramadan, reading Quran, wedding, circumsision and any party, concert music gamelan etc... which are all part of traditional javanese life, if there are any at the time of your stay. 5) We can offer you a day, non touristy tour, to the traditional batik woven on textile village or to the batik wood (masks) handicrafts workshop village for learning/try and/or shopping for cheaper than in Yogya (both about more than 1 hour drive east or west of our place). 6) We can organise your trip to explore the most famous and touristic Jomblang cave and Kalisuci tube caving river adventure. 7) We can book traditional massage (acupressure) from our local healer crew member and deep meditation cave master. 8) You can spot pilot whales around Juanly/October just cruising behind the breaking waves at our beach. 9) We can offer you a drive you to visit the true permaculture pioneers of Indonesia at Bumulangit community (about an hour drive) and their unique farm with spiritual philosophical knowledge and their restaurant with amazing healthy organic food you can buy. 10) We are central located to the more touristic famous Gunungkidul beaches like: - Drini beach with traditional fishermen and fresh sea foods restaurants, kayak rental (within walking distance) -Sanglen and its natural jacuzzi pool at low tide and beautiful sunrise spot next to our beach (within walking distance) - Ngobaran Hindu, Buddhist, Islam and Kejawen temples with possibility to attend some ceremony, and on the way the holy Goa Santa Maria (Cave) etc... (about half our scooter distance). -Krakal best beach around for surfing and bodyboarding about 15 minutes by scooters (Ripcurl Java Gromsearch (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) - Kukup for the sunsets and the small rock island and the only place where you can enjoy a cold beer around. (10 minutes scooter) -Many nice beaches and bays near by to be explored like Timang, Slili, Jogan, Ngobaran, Ngandong, Siung, Kukup, Wediombo, Ngrumput etc to name a few -Water fall of Sri Gethuk 11) Nglanggeran ancient volcano and Geopark and karst museum 12) Many trekking possibilities around the hills, beaches and bays of Gunung Kidul. Walking trails around rice fields and forest behind the hill. The farmers may show you how they farm in a still traditional way. 13) We can bring you for a day trip to Prambanan temples or to Merapy volcano trip (all about 2-3 hours drive from our place). We offer eco social transportation program from and to any places around Yogyakarta region and around our place. Our aim is not to get any profit but to empower local villagers through drivers jobs, and get a fare share earning for their family. We also use some of the money to plant trees and any plants around our property as green gas compensation. It is the smoothest fastest and hassle free way to get here. Some guest had some unpleasant experiences with what we call low cost non professional drivers. Our place is not so easy to find as we are not allowed no commercial organisation to put any sign and banners on the way. We can provide a mini MPV Suzuki APV (max 7 guests), a comfortable Suzuki Ertiga (max 4 guests) and our cheaper option, the farmer open roof local pickup Suzuki Carry (ideal for 1 guest, max 2 thin persons). Our location can also be accessed by car/scooters even if kind of "hidden in the bush" and you have to drive a short distance on the gravel Jl Watu Kodok road and not well known to many people. It is however located between two of the most popular beaches: Pantai Drini and Pantai Sepanjang and a couple of kilometer east of Pantai Baron, Kukup and west of Pantai Krakal and Indrayanti. There is also cheap option which is public transportation, recommended only for adventurous backpackers. There is a bus departing Yogya Giwangan bus station every day with no fix schedule, when the bus is full enough and stop at many places on the way direction Wonosari (half way/2 hours). Then from there if you are lucky, mostly during weekend you may find a connection to Pantai Baron (3km from here). If not there are scooters taxi Ojek who may bring you here. The distance from our place to major destinations in Jogja, such as the airport, train station, bus station, and palace, is about 45 km. The average time it takes to get to our place from those places is ONE and HALF to TWO hours, depending on the traffic jam. Type "Bukit Kelor" or "Pantai Watu Kodok" on (Hidden by Airbnb) maps to get here. We advise to use offline maps and apps as the 3G signal can be non existent in some area on the way and particularly near our place. You will stay in a still natural countryside ecosystem where humans need to open their mind and live harmonised with the nature and its inhabitants who were living here long before us. Even accepting sharing sometimes mutually the area with some bugs or geckos living around us. We try our best to offer best standard of cleanliness and hygiene but don't expect the place be as clean and sterile like western high standards big hotels as we are located in unspoiled indo country side, surrounded by farms, forest and beaches. Bungalows are not hermetically closed to get natural breeze air circulation and you may get little bit dust or leaves and salty moisture air from the ocean wind. The bathrooms have also open roof to feel the nature. We don't use chemicals to clean but natural soap, white vinegar and soda powder like our grand-parents did. This area is only open to tourism for a couple of years. We were the first to do it at our beach since (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) The local people still live around us their traditional farmer and fishermen Javanese life. We ask you to respect them and their customs as we are their "guests". The local people and us we don't practice "tourists" or "foreigners" prices, same price for anybody. All the prices unlike tourists area do not include (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) % services and taxes. We ask you to not use this opportunity to exploite them as they already have been for centuries. One of our philosophy is share, enrich not exploite. Their income and margin are very little that's why the prices are low. We encourage our visitors to round up and tip generously the people and the service you use and get if you are happy with it. They have the same right to get fair salary and have access to the same standard of living as anybody has. Not tipping is seen as you may not be happy with their meals, driving, massage or whatever they offer you. 10 to 20% is fair, but bear in mind that nowadays you can't buy much in a shop with (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) or (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) rupiah, so never leave just coins. You can also offer presents is you are invited or want to extra reward people. Tipping is not only good for your karma also you will get more respect and reward from the people. More you give is more you get in all the sense of the word. Please take note that our crew and people working for tourist at and around our area are not hospitality tourism professionals. People were farmers, fishermen, construction workers, public servant or office people etc... We are all new in this field and learning by doing. So cannot expect to get the full 5* resort standard service in our area, as tourism is very new. Our second philosophy is to limit our impact to the minimum on a fragile ecosystem area, with scarce natural resources to be shared with all the people living and visiting around the beaches. We don't provide AC but there is natural sea breeze (extra small fans can be offered on demand) and the architect built it in a way to make the most of it. No hot showers (not a must in tropical hot country) but fresh water (we can if you really need it cook hot water) and we and the earth will be very happy if you save water as we have limited water tanks and spring capacity particularly during the dry season. Please save electricity as we still depend on government coal power station (turn off lights, limit charging batteries). Please come with your reusable water bottle which you can refill with safe drinking filtered water (we are part of refillmybottle community). we just ask small donations (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) rp for small and (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) rp for big bottles to be put into our donation box, which we use to finance our zero waste project and the refill zero waste water station. Please be aware that in this area there aren't any trash management organised, people burn or dump trash in the nature, so please do not bring with you non compostable single use disposable plastic products as our place can't handle it or if needed bring it back with you to the city after your stay as many guests like to do. The closest ATM and very well furnish supermarket are more than 30 minutes scooter or car driving from our places. Only local warungs, toko. Credit and debit cards are not accepted in the region. So please take enough cash and what you may need extra.