Indonesia is bigger than your itinerary.
Which Batur sunrise gets you above the cloud. Whether the jungle swing is worth the ticket. What the Nusa Penida crossing is actually like in swell. Every tour in the archipelago, reviewed and priced.
What a day in Bali costs, from the swing to the charter.
Every fare on the site sorted by what one person actually pays. Group charters are priced per boat, so they sit outside these bands.
Temple tickets, a rice-terrace morning, an hour on a beach horse, the swing and the waterfall stop.
The workhorse Bali day: driver, three stops, lunch somewhere with a view. Most of the site lives here.
Batur before dawn, the Nusa Penida boat, rafting the Ayung, a cooking class that starts at the market.
Rinjani over two days, the Flores liveaboards, Ijen with a driver from Banyuwangi, private cars with a guide who knows the back roads.
Indonesia wakes you at two in the morning for a reason.
Batur, Bromo, Ijen, Merapi, Rinjani. Five volcanoes, five very early alarms, and five completely different mornings. The cloud usually wins by nine, which is why nobody sensible books the late departure.
Ubud is a valley, not a town — plan it that way.
The map lies about Ubud. What looks like a twenty-minute hop is an hour of scooters behind a truck on the Tegallalang road. One ridge, one river, one day: that is the honest unit here.
What everyone else in Bali is doing tomorrow.
Every review →Ranked by how many travellers have actually been and said so. The order changes as the reviews come in; the reasoning does not.
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All-Inclusive Ubud Private Tour
All-inclusive private day tour in Ubud with Monkey Forest, Tegalalang rice terraces, Tirta Empul springs, and Tegenungan waterfall, plus lunch and swing.
From · $100
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Sunrise Mount Batur Guided Hike with Breakfast
from $27
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Mount Batur Sunrise Guided Hike and Natural Hot Spring
from $36
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Best of Ubud Full-Day Tour with Jungle Swing
from $56
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Full-Day Instagram Highlights Tour
from $36
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Monkey Forest, Jungle Swing, Rice Terrace, and Water Temple
from $31
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Sunrise Mount Batur Hike with Breakfast
from $27
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️Nusa Penida by Private Boat – Snorkeling 4 spots, Swim with Mantas + Land Tour
from $100
East of Bali the water changes colour.
Penida is a limestone slab with a cliff on every side. The Gilis have no cars and no dogs. Komodo is two flights and a boat from anywhere, and worth all three. The crossings are open sea — the morning boat is the calm one.
- 1️Nusa Penida by Private Boat – Snorkeling 4 spots, Swim with Mantas + Land Tourfrom $100
- 2East & West Highlights Full-Day Tourfrom $32
- 3Gili Islands: Private or Shared Snorkeling Boat Tripfrom $14
The days most Indonesia trips are built around.
Terraces, waterfalls, a volcano rim at first light, a cliff temple at last light, and the two great stone monuments of central Java. Everything else is negotiable.
Three things Indonesia has and nowhere else does.
Reefs and rice terraces run right across the tropics. A three-metre lizard, a crater that burns blue and a chorus of a hundred men with no instruments do not.
The Komodo Dragon
Komodo, Rinca and Padar hold the only wild population of Varanus komodoensis on earth — roughly three thousand animals, on islands you reach by boat from Labuan Bajo. You walk with a ranger carrying a forked stick, which sounds like theatre until a five-foot male crosses the path ahead of you and nobody says anything for a while.
- 1Komodo Island Day Tour with Snorkeling★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,276 reviews
- 2One Day Tour to Explore Komodo National Park★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 529 reviews
- 3Komodo Island: Komodo Dragons & Islands Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 472 reviews
The Blue Fire of Ijen
Sulphuric gas escapes Ijen at around 600C, ignites, and burns electric blue — visible only in darkness, which is why the trek leaves Banyuwangi around one in the morning. The same crater is a working sulphur mine: men carry 70-kilo baskets up the wall and down the mountain twice a day, past you, on the same path.
- 1Ijen Volcano Midnight Blue Fire Guided Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 854 reviews
- 2Surabaya or Malang: Tumpak Sewu Bromo & Ijen 3-Day Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 672 reviews
- 324-Hour Kawah Ijen Blue Flames, Dinner & Room★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 593 reviews
The Kecak Chorus
A hundred men sit in concentric rings and chant a single syllable in interlocking rhythm. There is no gamelan, no drum, nothing but voices holding a beat for an hour while the Ramayana plays out in the middle. It was built in the 1930s around a much older trance ritual, and at Uluwatu it starts when the sun is about twenty minutes off the water.
- 1Uluwatu Kecak and Fire Dance Show Entry Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 5,189 reviews
- 2Uluwatu Sunset, Kecak Dance, and Dinner Jimbaran Beach★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,681 reviews
- 3Kecak Fire Dance Show & Uluwatu Temple Entry Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 3,023 reviews
Four things in Indonesia that will not wait for you.
Most of this country can be arranged from a warung the night before. These four run on park calendars, gas readings and daily caps that were set long before your flight was.
- 013D-2N Explore Mount Rinjani – Summit -Lake and HotspringGunung Rinjani National Park closes its trekking routes through the wettest months, usually from the start of January until around April. The park decides the date, not the operator.
- 02Ijen Volcano Midnight Blue Fire Guided TourThe blue flames only show in the dark, so the hike starts around one in the morning — and the crater is closed at short notice whenever the gas readings climb.
- 03Komodo Island Day Tour with SnorkelingThe national park charges its own entry on top of the boat fare, and the liveaboards out of Labuan Bajo fill weeks ahead in the dry season.
- 04Borobudur sunrise(guarantee climb up)& PrambananWalking up onto the terraces is capped each day and ticketed separately from the grounds, with a guide and the sandals that protect the stone included.
When the northwest monsoon parks over Bali, go inside.
From November to March the rain arrives in the afternoon and means it. It rarely lasts all day, but it will take your volcano sunrise and your boat crossing with it. The good answer is a roof, a table and someone teaching you something with their hands.
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Ubud699 tours
Seminyak321 tours
Kuta219 tours
Yogyakarta218 tours
Lombok94 tours
Nusa Penida58 tours
Labuan Bajo36 tours
Jakarta55 tours- Every town and island →
Java is the half of the trip nobody plans.
Two hours from Bali by plane and a different country in every other respect: two of the great monuments of the Buddhist and Hindu worlds within an hour of each other, a sand sea with a volcano in the middle of it, and caves you get into on a rope.
Kuta to Ijen: the trip most people actually take.
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