There is a Balinese concept — tri hita karana — that describes three sources of happiness: harmony with the divine, harmony with people, and harmony with nature. Walk through the rice fields of Pererenan on a quiet morning, and you feel all three without needing to name them. The land is cultivated but wild at the edges. The trees are enormous and generous. The whole landscape feels inhabited by something unhurried and old.

Blue Origin Rice Field Villa 2 opens directly onto this world. The living space slides open onto the terrace, and the terrace looks out over the paddies, and there is almost no boundary between inside and out — which is exactly as it should be in Bali, where architecture has always understood that the outside is where life actually happens. Your private pool is part of this: a cool, clear rectangle set against the layered greens of the fields.

Pererenan offers you a version of Bali that is both accessible and genuine. The morning markets. The small temples with their daily offerings. The surf break at Pererenan beach, well regarded by those who know. The cafés and restaurants that have grown up around a community of people who came to Bali and decided to stay.