Sofitel Seminyak
"Garden Tour"

Sofitel Seminyak Hotel is a modern French luxury resort that combines innovative design and Balinese elegance on the exclusive Seminyak Beach Bali. The resort covers 4,5 hectares of beach front property amidst luxurious and unique landscaping. Sofitel Seminyak Bali is 20 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport and is located on popular Seminyak’s main beach area, within walking distance to its lively cafes, dining and shopping areas.
Beside providing service for the tourism industry actually this hotel also pays good attention to the environment. It is shown by several activities that were held by this hotel to keep the sustainability of their environment. Even the clean up program is noticed on their annual hotel program. In addition Sofitel Seminyak also built public toilets on the beach area in Seminyak. This hotel continues giving training to the community how to take care of cleaning up the toilets. "The annual cleaning activities are not limited to our Hotel. It also includes areas out side of the hotel like in Petitenget temple, along the Abimayu street, beach cleaning, etc." said Happy Soebianto the Public Relations Manager Sofitel Seminyak She added that beside of regular cleaning activities the hotel also organizes flora and fauna conservations. These conservation programs were first started when this hotel opened thirteen years ago.
Many kinds of green plants and trees are growing in the garden of this hotel that has a direct view to the sea. "Various rare plantations either from Bali or beyond are growing well in our large garden. We even display the name for every single rare plantation. It is important to give the information to the visitor about the plantation" uttered Happy. She added that by mentioning the names of the plants and trees, automatically the visitors learn about the variety of Balinese flora.
Nutmeg trees, belimbing buluh (Averhora bilimbi), lengkeng (Euphoria longana), gaharu (Intsia palembanica), kayu manis (glycyrrhiza glabra), kemiri (phyllanfhus urinaria), kenanga (greenish yellow flowers), damar, daun salam (euginia polyantha) are part of the plantation decorating this hotel. "We are now having a Garden tour activity. Although the activity is not launched yet, this program has been running successfully" she said. "In the future the garden tour program will be one of our interesting hotel programs and will be handled by some one who is an expert in plantation" she added.
Beside flora conservation the hotel also gives attention to the fauna like squirrel, birds, fishes, iguana etc. "many kinds of fauna can life free in our regional, event we prepare several food boxes filled with peanuts and grains and this is very interesting to see" she explained. (BTN/rai)