The origin of our name:

Umah Watu are the old Balinese words for house of stone.
The Balinese did not have a 'B' in their vocabulary
so Batu (the Bahasa word for stone or rock)  was originally Watu.
Rumah
(the word for room or house) was Umah in old Balinese.

To retain this connection, a co-owner,  Peter Walton Finlason , not only designed the  Villas to be built of stone,  but named the Villas after his historic family home, vineyard, and grazing property -"Rock House", Kyneton,(1848) situated on the Campaspe River in the Central Highlands District in the State of Victoria, Australia (85 kilometers north of Melbourne). Peter is  now retired, but oversees the Villas here in Bali, where he spends most of  his time during the year.

 

 

 
     
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