Tresna Gate of Love: Memoir One: 1 (Chronicles of a Balinese Priestess)

TRESNA Gate of Love chronicles the real-life story of Frances Tse Ardika the first foreigner to become a Balinese Temple Priestess.Long before her incarnation Frances was a Canadian Internet start-up founder fighting burnout in both her love life and career.Escaping for a week to Bali on her way to attend her umpteenth wedding as a single she was looking forward to a vacation not a vocation. But then she meets Adi an unassuming young Balinese man who shows her a side of Bali most tourists never get to experience.Here begins her life-changing journey of transformation rebirth - and love - that would one day bring her through the temple gates.TRESNA Gate of Love is the first memoir in her series Chronicles of a Balinese Priestess. Full of hope courage - and even a touch of black magic - Francess memoir is a vivid inside account of the unexplored beauty culture and food of the real Bali in the early 2000s before the age of digital nomads and Instagram influencers. But more than anything it is a love story. Written with heart-wrenching honesty and good-spirited humour her journey leads us through dense jungles of emotion to dreams we didnt know could become reality.