Novotel Coralia Benoa is one of the mostinteresting hotel along the stretch of Nusa Dua, Bali. It was designed by Lek Bunnag and landscaped by Bill Bensley. In 2005-06, we were given the task to implement our bio-filtration system to all the ponds with a total area of approximately 300 sq.m.
There are two large entrance ponds and five smaller ones at the pool side. The ponds were murkish brown and nothing can be seen due to its water turbidity, tilapias spreading every where making the ponds looked abandoned.
My team worked through late into the night with minimal noise as there were then guests walking around and very curious of what was happening. The ponds were flushed and cleaned. The bio-filtration system were installed, new pineapple sculptured pot were brought in with some fresh aquatic plants and fishes. Using local lava stone as the main filtration medium, it makes the pond appeared to be very mysterious with its brownish black bottom.
When it was completed, fishes like shubunkin, tinfoil barb (Puntius schwanenfeldii) stand out strikingly with their reddish colour body against the dark background in the all new filtered fresh crisp clear water.
It was an interesting job when surounded by a strange atmosphere of environment created by Bunnag and Bensley. You have to visit Novotel Coralia Benoa to experience it.
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