Adam Skolnick

Outside Magazine - Winter 2006 Nyuh Kuning, Bali If you can’t feel that good nature love here, then you may be hopeless. Because this is the eco-resort’s eco-resort – 25 acres of bamboo and coconut palm groves, waterfalls, swimming holes, organic gardens, top shelf food and guilt-free, world-class style. Linda Garland, famed British interior designer who [...]

Spa Magazine Worldwide Guide - Winter/Spring 2007 When we first stepped into the Bodyworks courtyard in Ubud, Bali, I felt I was in for something extraordinary. The surrounding stone buildings were 15th century replicas rife with tropical plants and flowing fountains. We were led upstairs by a lovely Balinese woman in a sarong to a treatment room [...]

Spa Magazine - May-June 2005 The mere mention of Bali inspires bliss flashbacks from those who have sampled its sweetness, but there is one town where Bali’s essence is at its most accessible. Where everything great about it is magnified. This is your insider’s guide to the vibrant spiritual culture, delicious, healthy cuisine and mind-body indulgences not [...]

Spa Magazine - Nov/Dec 2004 It’s still very early when Ibu Sriyani, 54, rises from her cot in a Jakarta slum. Early enough that the sky is black and the dense jumble of plywood and corrugated tin, huddled in the shadows of a luxury apartment complex, is eerily still. She takes care not to wake her family, [...]

Weddings Magazine - October 2004 I’ll start with a disclaimer. I am an American and while moderately acquainted with Indonesian culture through books and ten weeks of travel from Sumatra to Bali, I carry the cultural soul and perceptions of a Westerner. Also, I just got un-engaged, which normally isn’t even worth mentioning, but this is Weddings, so [...]

Posting from Kupang, West Timor. This shot was taken in Temkessi, an indigenous village high in the mountains. Something about her is haunting in the most beautiful way. West Timor is a mind bender.