Indonesia · MARKETS
Every trip has one free day too few. These 15 market tours justify the slot, priced and timed so you can decide in minutes and get back to the fun part of planning.
Hands-on Ubud cooking class with optional market visit and hotel transfers. Cook Balinese dishes, eat your feast, and take recipes home.
“Great cooking class, lovely family and you get taught lots about Balinese history as well as cooking yummy food”
Ubud cooking school plus a local market and rice field visit. Learn 9 Balinese classics, choose vegetarian, enjoy lunch, take recipes home.
“Enjoyed the experience of cooking many local dishes with the humourous and friendly instructor, Yogi. The meals cooked turned out to be very delicious, in no small part contributed by the ingredients, guidance, and recipe. We also enjoyed the trip to the local market and the sampling of local fruits and pastries. Great experience overall!”
Ubud market tour plus a Balinese cooking class. Make 9 dishes with a chef, taste as you go, then eat your own meal.
“Excellent, very good host and cooked a wide array of food”
One day from Jakarta to Tangkuban Perahu volcano, fruit market, rice fields, tea plantation, and Ciater hot springs, with lunch included.
“A good day with good experiences. The tour pick-up happened as scheduled. Isabella, the tour guide was personable and very knowledgeable about the tour elements. I enjoyed tasting the various fruits. For me, the highlight was seeing the volcano!”
Seminyak market tour and a 4-hour Balinese cooking class. Shop with your chef, cook classic dishes, eat your feast, take home recipes.
“From start to finish I really enjoyed this activity. Pick up and transport was great. They took us straight to a market where our chef/teacher explained what some of the specific ingredients used for the pastes in Bali were. We then were take to the restaurant where we would be cooking and given a cold drink and sweet snack. The class was great we made some many dishes and it was very well organised. There were numerous staff members that were there to help guide you and also cleaned and prepared all the next ingredients and equipment for each dish. It was like clockwork. The food was unreal ! Honestly…”
Ubud cooking class that starts at a traditional morning market, then teaches Balinese offerings and hands-on dishes with your chef.
“Wow! What an amazing experience to kick start our trip in Bali. We were picked up from our hotel, take to a local market and shown the most amazing ingredients by a wonderful guide who allowed us to try unknown foods if we wanted. We then got back in the car and headed to the kitchen set in beautiful scenery. The welcome drink and snack were great and then the cooking began! We cooked so many wonderful dishes, using wonderful skills, all supported by the funny, warm and informative staff. At the end of the class we got to sit and eat all that we have created and were given…”
Private Ubud market tour with Putu, Pejeng Market ingredient shopping, and a hands-on Balinese cooking class plus family lunch at home.
“Putin’s was an wonderful, gracious host! Her family immediately made us feel welcome and like meme era of the family. The market tour was fascinating, trying new fruits, experiencing new scents, and watching daily Balinese life unfold. Both Read more”
Market to meal in Yogyakarta. Shop with a chef, learn Javanese cooking at a local home, and eat what you make in about 3 hours.
“A very sweet woman, but I’m still left a bit disappointed (perhaps also due to previous cooking classes in other countries). Personally, I felt there was too little explanation, and we were sometimes not given enough room to be creative. That said, she is a very kind woman.”
Ubud traditional night market food tour with hotel pickup, all food and drinks included, and a guide taking you to Gianyar’s best stalls.
“We had a great guide called Wayan. His knowledge was excellent and he explained every aspect of the tour and more about Bali. Highly recommend this experience to understand more about Bali cuisine and culture.”
Shop a Yogyakarta market, cook Javanese favorites with an English-speaking chef, then eat your creations. Morning market included.
“This meal was one of the highlights of our stay in Jogja. We started at the market where our guide explained local ingredients. Back at his house the meal we prepared involved grinding herbs and making coconut milk from scratch. A nice and rewarding couple of hours and the meal was fantastic!”
Ubud cooking class with optional market shopping and hotel pickup. Learn Balinese dishes step-by-step, then eat what you make in 3 hours.
“10/10 totally worth it! They are very patient and teach you a lot. Our driver Ketut was very punctual, and our teacher very caring. I felt welcomed, learned a lot and had a very good experiencie. Very recomended.”
Ubud market morning plus an organic garden herb lesson, then cook five Balinese dishes with a stone mortar and eat your lunch.
“Excellent day spent at Lesung Cooking School…Starting with Hotel pickup, morning tour of local market where Ron explained the different vegetables and fruit and some of the Balinese traditions and then onto a Commune house for a reRead more”
Ubud vegetarian or vegan cooking class with a market and rice fields visit, learn Balinese dishes by hand, then eat together for $23.
“We absolutely loved this activity! Our guides Tata and Yogi were so helpful, engaging, and funny! We created such beautiful dishes and got to share them with new friends we met during the course. My only suggestion is that if you are vegetarian or vegan it may be better to do the afternoon class and skip the market shop. I found this experience a bit traumatising with the lack of animal welfare at the market. Overall, such an incredible experience and would 100% recommend this to anyone who is visiting Ubud.”
Private Ubud day from Kuta with rice terraces, valley swings, spring holy-water pools, Ubud Palace, and an art market stop.
“Highly recommended. Good day was a great driver and allowed us to get to know Bali very well for our first day on the island. Tour included coffee plantation. Lunch in front of volcano temples and much more. His information was on point! Great culture knowledge”
Shop Ubud market ingredients, make virgin coconut oil from scratch, then cook and taste Balinese green curry in a 4-hour class.
“The activity was so interesting and fun! I was picked up on time actually even earlier which was great, then we went to the market and Sanaa our guide was fantastic and explained us every aspects of the Balinese culture. Then we went to his family house where we learned how to make coconut oil and since it’s a long process, we also learned how to cook an amazing curry (it was amazing really). So I cannot recommend enough this activity, it is a must do in Bali, if you want a traditional and local approach. Sanaa was super nice and took us to a coffee plantation where we could…”
Every kind of day out, and the best of each.
