Bali Culture Family Adventure

Om Swastiastu! Welcome to Bali! Upon arrival at Denpasar Airport, Your English Speaking Tour Guide will be waiting for you at the main gate, holding the signboard with your name. After a warm welcome, the guide will take you directly to your hotel for check-in. During the transfer, your guide will give you some brief information about your hotel, its surroundings, and about Bali – he will explain your program for the following days and set up it's the timing at your convenience. Check-in at your hotel and rest of the time is at leisure to explore this beautiful Island on your own. 

After a delicious breakfast, you will get to experience an hour of ultimate Balinese pampering with a massage at the SPA salon. Continue this day with a private guided tour to the Bukit peninsula, with our Bali Best Beaches trip to Padang-Padang and Melasti beaches. 

After relaxing on the white sand beaches and swimming in the crystal clear ocean, we`ll continue to Uluwatu temple which stands on the edge of the cliff. From here you will have a stunning sunset view of the Indian Ocean. 

Enjoy the two-hour sailing trip to stunning Lembongan Island, crossing beautiful turquoise seas as you help yourself to hot coffee and tea. Dock at the white-sand beach of Nusa Lembongan, where clear blue waters lap the shores. Spend the day at your leisure, basking in the sun, paddling in the ocean, and snorkeling colorful reefs, just moments from the shore. Opt to explore a nearby village and learn about seaweed farming and local handicrafts.

Head to the Beach Club for lunch overlooking the bay. Savor a delicious buffet BBQ of fresh fish, crisp salads, and delicious satay. At 4 pm, board your deluxe catamaran and head back to Benoa, enjoying snacks and drinks as you cruise back in style. Meet your driver for the transfer back to your hotel and enjoy the rest of your day at leisure.

After hotel pickup by our guide approximately at 16.00 pm, you're driven along the winding shoreline to Uluwatu Temple, located among the southern cliffs of the Bukit Peninsula, whose dramatic precipices rise almost 330 feet (100 meters) from the Indian Ocean. Majestically perched on the edge of a steep promontory, the small temple dates back to the 10th century and is counted among the six temples most revered by the Balinese people.

With a beautiful ocean sunset as your backdrop, enjoy a Kecak Dance with traditional Balinese movements and chants performed in a circle around a blazing torch.

Afterward, continue on to an expansive beach in Jimbaran Bay for a delicious barbecue dinner. Dine under the stars as you’re served a seafood platter including prawns, grilled fish, squid, and clams, accompanied by rice, spinach, and sambal (spicy Indonesian sauce). Your 4-hour experience ends with drop-off at your hotel.

You will take a private transfer to Ubud.

This tour is a perfect introduction to Bali's fascinating culture and handicrafts, picturesque rice paddy fields, traditional villages, and a spectacular lake and volcano. Your journey takes you to Batubulan, known for its stone carving and ornate temples, here you will see the exciting Barong Dance. A traditional dance that portrays the eternal struggle between good and evil, the religious and the profane, and with a dramatic ending.

After the performance, drive through to the village of Celuk, famous for its gold and silver works. You can watch skilled artisans creating exquisite pieces from gold and silver. Continue to the Balinese countryside to Mas - a village famous for its impressive woodcarvings, where you can see artisans chipping intricate designs from blocks of wood.

Then visit the fantastic 11th-century Elephant Cave (Goa Gajah) before moving into the cool mountains of Kintamani. View Mount Batur an active volcano with ribbons of black lava running down its peak to the valley below. The lake Batur shimmers like a sheet of blue glass - a wonderful photographic opportunity.

Enjoy lunch in a restaurant providing wonderful views (lunch is at your own expense). On the return back, you will stop at the Holy springs which are believed to have magic curative powers. 

Your local guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel, transferring you to our biking start point (transfer around 45mins). On arrival your experienced guide will take you through a safety briefing, provide a safety helmet, and ensure your bike is the right fit. After a quick safety ride, you will set off with your cycling guide on a 3-hour downhill adventure (times may be slightly longer dependent on weather conditions). Cycling along secret back roads, though local villages, farms and lush green rice paddies, you will experience rural Balinese life, and witness both the friendliness of Balinese people and any ceremonies or events taking place during your trip.

Stopping to sample local fruits and snacks along the way, your local guide will explain local rural Balinese lifestyles, as you drop into a Balinese home. Cycling through lush fruit and coffee farms, we stop at a coffee and spice and herb plantation. Here you will learn the ancient art of using herbs and spices in traditional Balinese medicine, as well as the cultivating the perfect cup of coffee. We continue to cycle through rural villages stopping to learn how rice is cultivated (you will have the opportunity to try this), stopping at a Balinese style temple, surrounded by colorful offerings.

We leave the bikes behind as we take a short walk to Gulingan village, Mengwi. Famous for its Balinese cooking lessons. Here you will learn the art of sumptuous Balinese cooking. Cooking up delicacies such as aromatic satay, banana leaf fish curry, lip watering aromatic rice and sumptuous spice infused vegetables, before sampling your cuisine. Its then time to say goodbye, as you transfer back to your hotel.

Ubud is well known as the artist village of the painters, where you are also having the opportunity to explore the beautiful countryside. 

The first place to stop is where we introduce you to the Balinese traditional houses which have different structures and architecture to the modern house. Then drive up to central Ubud to visit the Puri Lukisan Museum where Bali's famous artists of painters and sculpture work are exhibited. Not far from the museum is Puri Saren Ubud, a palace of the latest King of Ubud. The palace has a very great Balinese art design it is very interesting to visit. Just across the road from the palace is Ubud Art Market they sell various Balinese artwork.

Leave the central Ubud to explore the countryside and rice fields to visit Petulu village is the home of white herons normally they come to their home in the afternoon around 4 PM and leave in the morning around 9 AM. 

Your guide will escort you to the airport for your onward flight.