Hi everyone. I'm Jessica Porter and welcome back to sleep magic, a podcast where I help you find the magic of your own mind, helping you to sleep better and live better.

Merry Christmas, everyone. Thank you all for being here. This episode is dropping on Christmas

Eve, and I just want to send some holiday cheer to anyone who might be celebrating around this time,

and to everyone who isn't.

Obviously, there are lots of people who don't do Christmas, so I thought it would make

tonight's episode a luxurious vacation that had nothing to do with the holidays, but to which

we are all invited.

So tonight, get sleepy on a yacht in Indonesia.

Okay, so how did we get here?

Well, I have a friend named Bill, and he loves a good hotel. He's a big traveler, and has been to a lot of them. Most of them I cannot afford.

Well, I was hanging with Bill the other day, and I asked him what his favorite hotel in the world was.

And I was expecting an answer, something along the lines of what I've heard before,

like the Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons or the Waldorf, and he said, the Amman in Bali.

Well, thank goodness for Google, because within seconds, I was looking at the most exquisite resort in Bali,

tucked into the side of a mountain, just the type of place Bill would end up on his adventures.

And as I continued to search, I noticed that the Amman Hotel Group also owns a yacht or two that sail around the

islands. They're like luxury hotels on the water. And when I say yacht, I don't mean the big

motorboats we think of. The Amandira is a traditional Indonesian two-masted wooden sailing vessel called a

pinnesee with a teak deck and beautiful warm interior, just the type of vessel that looks like a gem

on the sea and reflects all the natural beauty around it.

So every once in a while I write a podcast about a place I've never been or something I've never done,

which takes me down a whole research rabbit hole into history and videos and blogs in order to stitch together the experience.

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