Bocas Bali Luxury Water Villas is a luxury resort comprising 16 villas suspended on stilts in the water, amidst large mangrove forests, with swimming pools, gym, spa and the “100-year-old” Elephant House restaurant. The villas and other facilities of Bocas Bali are located on the private island of Frangipani, one of many in the Bocas del Toro archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, northwest of the Republic of Panama.
According to the owners, it is no longer necessary to “travel to Bora Bora, Tahiti or the Maldives to experience an exotic holiday” – just fly to Panama City, then take a one-hour regional flight to Bocas del Toro, and finally take a fifteen-minute boat ride to the resort. The luxury villas, built with wood and stone carved in Bali, Indonesia, and built according to the architecture of this part of the world, as well as the surroundings of crystal-clear waters and lush nature, guarantee the promised exoticism.
Since April this year, however, Bocas Bali has one more reason for guests to experience an exotic location. It is a new facility that serves as a beach on an island where no such attraction exists. It is Kupu-kupu beach, or butterfly, which is the Indonesian meaning of its name (and also its shape, a butterfly with open wings).
Its owners believe Kupu-kupu to be “the world’s first elevated beach“. In any case, it consists of a platform on stilts and on top, “velvety white sand and lush palm trees“, hammocks, a wooden walkway, a bar in its centre and a staircase down to the water for swimming. Kupu-kupu beach is already part of the “casual elegance” of the luxury resort, and contributes to the “resort culture” that the property declares as “informal“, aiming to offer guests the “feeling of being at home in paradise“.
