Bali Tours Activities

There are a number of interesting and famous places for visiting  in Bali. The mythical and magical diamond shaped island of Bali presents impressive the amazing places spread over the regions of the island, such as the Ancient Temples, Volcanic Mountains, Lakes, Palaces, Museums, Old Justice hall,  Sacred Monkey Forests Sanctuary, Origin Villages, Delightful rice terraces, Beaches, Botanical gardens, extensive of beautiful highland & low land plains, extensive coffee & clove plantations and also the Recreation places for rafting, cruising, sailing, snorkeling, diving, para sailing and surfing. Besides these, during your entire trips throughout Bali  you can also find many attractive and uniqueness in the island,  such as its culture, customs, attractions, dances, sculpture, paintings, wood & stone carving, handicrafts, metalworking, music, etc. Bali Island is full of activities year round as if a live theater .  Those makes your holidays full of new experiences, unforgettable sweet memories and even you will  feel  full of love, peaceful , joy and fun in the island. Sense and touch of warm welcome , friendly manner, personalization, and togetherness will also color your holidays in Bali. The real beauty, quietness and uniqueness of Bali can only be found if you have good enough opportunities to make trips or  totally getting around Bali as well as sincerely understand its culture in deep.  It means you will be never able to consider or appraise Bali just from one or two sides only, or just know Kuta or Denpasar only. In relation to arrange your tour activities programs  for visiting throughout the interesting tourism objects in the Island,  there are many Travel Agencies in Bali which  offering their fantastic and attractive Bali Tour Activities or even their special tours packages. But you should be aware of the tour packages offered by the travel agents. Don’t deceive with very low price of the tour packages! Ask it for detailed information regarding the special packages, what inclusions will be ? For instance, its insurance covering, entrance fees , donations, meal, the quality of services, experienced guide, quality of car, etc, etc.  For this,  just select on of the agents which offer reasonable tour packages. Herewith I recommend you in order only to use one of professional and legal travel agents for  handling your tours . It is important to consider because of the safety, secure and the cover of insurance if any accidents. With legal travel agents, it is much more easy to make any claims if you get any accidents or incidents during your trips with the agents.  For booking tour activities in Bali, you may select one of the following Travel Agents: Vaya Tour, Wita Tour, Bayu Buana Travel, KCB Tour, KBA Tur, Quadro Prima Holidays, Vijaya Tour, Marin Tur, Bali Arrow Travel, Viga Tour, BIS Tour, Golden Kris Tour, Panorama Tour, Pacific World Nusanatara Tour, Bali Maesti Tour, Bali Arrow Travel, Smailing Tour, Pacto Ltd, Surya Jaya Tour, etc.

And the followings are some of the popular places in Bali:

·         Air  Sanih (a place with beautiful beach view and its fresh water spring swimming pool)

·         Alas Kedaton (a temple surrounded by forest and many monkeys)

·         Amlapura ( a city of Karangasem with its fantastic palace of king)

·         Bangli ( a city of Bangli regency  welcome with a temple, called “Pura Kehen”

·         Banjar ( A bathing place with its hot spring swimming pool , located at North of Bali –Bulleleng regency)

·         Batubulan ( a village , well-known with its Stones carvings and Barong Dance Performance)

·         Batur ( well-known with Volcanic mountain & lake, called “ Gunung Batur and Danau Batur”)

·         Batukaru (well-known with a temple built up on slope of  mountain with lush plantations surrounding the location)

·         Bedugul -  a place well-known with “Pura Danau Beratan”, a temple with beautiful and harmonious views of mountain and lake.

·         Besakih - a place well-known with the biggest temple in Indonesia, built on slople of Mount Agung.

·         Bona  - a village well-known with bamboo handicraft

·         Bukit jambul – a place with highland plain in which we can enjoy amazing clove plantation and beautiful extensive rice-filed terraces in its lowland plan.

·         Candidasa – well-known with the extensive white sandy beach , here you can enjoy an exotic panorama and feel  tranquil and relaxing atmosphere

·         Celuk – a village well-knows as the center of  silver and gold handicrafts in Bali.

·         Delod Berawah -  a place with its very quiet of beach , located at the West of Bali

·         Denpasar – a biggest city in Bali as the central of local government of the island, well-known with its the centers of traditional market, modern shopping centers, Bali Museum, and Bali Art center.

·         Gianyar – regency of Gianyar, well-known as  the King palace of Gianyar.

·         Gitgit – well-known as a amazing waterfall with its lush plants and beautiful scenery surrounded.

·         Goa Gajah – called “ Elephant cave” well-known with its olden times of archeology and the  Ganesha Statue

·         Goa Lawah – well-known with a temple and a cave with its thousands of bats

·         Gunung Kawi – well-known with its  olden times temple which has attractive and unique architecture.

·         Jatiluwih – a village with is very beautiful  extensive rice-field terraces

·         Kamasan – a village well-known with its traditional paintings

·         Kebun Raya Bedugul -  a place well-known with its extensive garden which has a lot of species of flowers ,  thousands varieties of plantations plantations as well as has beautiful mountain view with clean, fresh , cool , quiet and relaxing atmosphere.

·         Kerambitan –well-known with its king palace and Balinese traditional hall with its Gamelan.

·         Kintamani – a cool region   well-known with it’s famous views of vulcanic mountain and lake, called “Gunung Batur & Danau Batur”

·         Klungkung – a regency well-known with its old justice hall, called “Kertha Gosa”

·         Kuta – a village welknown with its beautiful white sandy beach, stretching from Tuban to Seminyak area (Northern of Kuta) as well as very popular with ist amazing sunset view to the west.

·         Pura Bukit Sari Sangeh – well-known with a temple with a lush forest and a lot of  monkeys

·         Mas – a village well-known with it’s the quality of word carvings and its handicrafts

·         Medewi – a beautiful beach which  is very favorite for surfing

·         Mengwi – popular with its Royal Temple, called “Pura Taman Ayun”, surrounded by colorful flowers garden and a museum.

·         Nusa Dua -  very popular with its tranquil white sandy beach and luxurious big hotels a long the extensive beach.

·         Pancasari – Well-known with the best  Golf  country yard in Bali, called “ Lapangan Golf Bali Handara”

·         Penelokan -  a palace to enjoy the fantastic scenery of  Mountains and Batur Lake in lowland plains.

·         Pulaki – very popular with it’s a temple and its monkeys and source of hot spring nearby.

·         Pulau Menjangan – well-known with Bali West Park with its wild animals and a group deers

·         Rambut Siwi – a biggest temple  at the  west of Bali, built on the bank

·         Sangeh – well-known with the lush Pala plants with hundreds d of monkeys and there a temple in the middle of the  pala plantations, called” Pura Bukit Sari”

·         Sanur – a village which popular with white sandy beach, sunrise view as well as very well-known as a main tourism destination with its International Hotel, “ Grand Bali Beach Hotel”.

·         Pulau Serangan – is a small island , a part of Bali , well-known with “Turtle Island” and “ a famous temple, called “Pura Sakenan”.

·         Singaraja – a city of Buleleng regency, popular with a a museum , named““Museum Gedong Kertya”

·         Sukawati – a village  well-known with center of art market , there are many kinds of  handicrafts for souvenirs with its reasonable prices.

·         Suluban – a beautiful beach, very suitable for surfing.

·         Tampak Siring – a place  which is very famous with it’s a temple with its source of sacred holy water and the Palace of P residence , established on the side of west highland of the temple.

·         Tanah Lot – well-known with an amazing temple on the rock , called “Pura Tanah Lot”.  The real beautiful sunset can be enjoyed from the temple and also  from the temple environment area nearby.

·         Tenganan – an old origin village in Bali , called “Tenganan Village” with very unique tradition, custom and special cloth, named “ Kemben Gringsing”

·         Tirta Gannga- a place of bathing with is beautiful swimming pool for king of Karangasem

·         Toya Bungkah – a well-known place with its “hot spring” , nearby Batur Lake.

·         Trunyan – One of  old origin villages (Bali Aga) in Bali, very popular tradition with its quite unique of funeral crops – it can be reached by renting a boat crossing Batur Lake

·         Tulamben – a pace which becomes  very favorite for the real diving in Bali with its beautiful and amazing panorama under the water.

·         Ubud – a very famous village as the center of  culture, art and music in Bali as well as very popular with its number of  painting collections from other countries in the world which are kept in a musem called “ Musium Lukisan”. The majority of people in Ubud are artists.

·         Uluwatu – a well-known with an amazing temple, named “Pura Uluwatu” , built on the side of rock bank of the Uluwatu Beach, situated at the South of Bali Island.

·          Taman National Bali  Bart – a exotic park located on the West of Bali with 700 hectares in width, it has been populated by a group of scarcity of birds, named “ Burung Jalak Putih “.  Beside the birds, theater are also well-known cows, named “Banteng”.

  

The followings are several attractive programs of Bali Tour Activities you may consider to choose:

Volcanoes, handicrafts and Cultural show

The first performance you can see on this full day tour activity is Barong & Kris Dance at Batubulan Village.  The Barong and Kris Dance which is one of the famous dances in Bali. Many tourist both local and overseas tourists are much interested in watching the dances as the can find the uniqueness of culture, customs, and fun. The dances are performed every morning at the Village. Besides these, in the performance we can take some high philosophy teaching which  matching with our  the real daily life. As the story of the dances  is about the eternal fight between good and evil: the evil Rangda (a mythological monster) battling with the good Barong (a mythological lion).. If the badness/evils are  dominant (more than 50%) , this world is certainly on unstable situation(many disturbance and crimes everywhere) and as return, if good are more dominant than badness/evil, this world will be stable, full of happy, joy, safety and peaceful. But, the fight is never ended. So in our real life, goodness and badness always fight like day and night. You can imagine how we can life if all days are just any night or daylight only ! Perhaps the philosophy concept is symbolized in sacred black and white of clothes in Bali.

After having enjoyed the dances, the next trip toward  Bedulu. Here you can see the elephant cave and the real highlight of the day "Kintamani", perched dramatically on top of the crater rim of Mount Batur Volcano, where you will have breathtaking views of the crater, lake, lava flows, and volcanic peaks. En route pass through many of Bali's famous handicraft villages such as Mas for woodcarving, beautiful Ubud for paintings, Celuk for intricate gold and silverware, or perhaps a batik factory for some lovely locally made fabric. Your return journey will take you off the beaten track past beautiful countryside, temples and terraced rice field.

Karangasem Tour

Another full day tour activity is Karang sem Tour.  On the way to Karang Asem regency, you will be guided to  visit some interesting artist villages (Celuk, Mas, and Ubud). After that, the next trip will be continued to visit one of the Biggest Temples as a Mother Temple  in Bali, called “ Besakih Temple” . The temple was built up on slope of mount Agung at Karangasem Region. then continued to drive and pass through the vast beautiful scenery of rice field terraces  and stop at local Restaurant for Lunch . After having lunch,  the trip will pass the wide snake skin fruit farmings, then Tirtagangga (the rest house with its bathing pool of the latest King of Karangasem), then visiting the Bali Age village of Tenganan with the uniqueness of the village layout and the hand woven activities of the Ikat cloth. Further stops will be at Goa Lawah Temple (bat cave) located along the coast and the salt refinery at Kusamba Village near to the cave and Klungkung with its Kertagosa (justice hall) . Finally return to the hotel !

Besakih Tour

At Besakih we can find a Mother Temple , the biggest temple in Bali, named “BESAKIH TEMPLE” built up on the slopes of the highest mountain of Mount Agung. It is most enjoyable during one of the frequent festivals, when hundreds of Hindu Balinese come to pry at this temple, gorgeously adorned with beautifully arranged offering. En route drive down the scenic east coast, with visits to Goa Lawah (Bat cave) and the old Court of Justice at Klungkung. Then return to the hotel.


Vulcono and the Essence of Bali Tours

Start  from hotel drives through the villages away from the main tourist attraction, first stop at Pelaga Village, a remote village where you will have a great chance to explore around 17 hectare of fruit, flower and vegetable organic farms, gardens and beautiful scenery of rice-field terraces in breathtaking natural surrounding to please every visitor. Having a lunch at a beautiful restaurant overlooking green mountains, farms and plantation. After having  lunch , continue to pass through highland of  the Penulisan Hill where the Penulisan Temple with its archeological remains dated back to early 11th century can be found...... A breathtaking views of crater, lake, lava flows and volcanic peaks of Mt. Batur, then the next trip is pass trough  down hill heading Penglipuran Village (one of the traditional village) situated in the middle of Bamboo forest, then Kehen temple at Bangli Regency (on of the best temples in the island), which is historically built up dated back to 11th century to worship the God Brahma. 

Bedugul Tour

The tour activity here will escort you to find a real magic and beauty of Bali by making trip into the heart of the island and seeing the lovely countryside in the island. One your journey to the mountain resort of Bedugul, you will be amazed at the lush extensive terraced rice field as you pass many coffee and clove plantations establishing spread over the highland of Bedugul region. Here you can stop at the well-known fruit and flower market at Candikuning , then enjoy the amazing views of  Ulundanu Temple , a temple on the shores of Beratan Lake, and stop for viewing another two lakes from the crater rim. Those are the real beauty of the Island .

Singaraja Tour

On the way to Singaraja,  you will find a Fruit and Vegetable market at Candikuning Village, then beautiful  highland of Bedugul, Lake Beratan with its famous Ulun Danu temple, then continued for a short and relax hike to visit the natural beauty of Gitgit Waterfall.  Then having a lunch at one of Restaurant at Lovina Beach in which besides enjoy your delicious food you can also enjoy the quietness, peaceful and beautiful panoramas of Lovina Beach. Then return to the hotel pass through  Pupuan region, a region well-known as its fantastic views of coffee & clove plantations and amazing extensive rice –field terraces, here you can stop for taking nice pictures of real beauty of Bali for your memory collections.

Tanah Lot & Monkey Forest Tour

Here the first tour activity is to visit the serene Royal Temple at Mengwi with its impressive architecture, then continued the trip to  the monkey forest at Alas Kedaton . At this location you can find a temple with its lush forest populated by hundreds of monkeys and giant 'bats' nestle in the tree tops. Then the next trip toward to  the amazing Tanah Lot Temple, perched dramatically on top of a large black lava rock some 200-m offshore. Sea snakes at the temple's base are believed to be the guardians of the temple from evil spirits and intruders! From the Tanah Lot area you can enjoy the real beauty of Sunset.

Uluwatu Tour

The tour activity here, you will be escorted to one of  famous temple built  on the spectacular rocky cliff, called “Uluwatu Temple”,.It is magnify, so much smoothly illuminated on day light of the sun dawn or profiled at dark. A lot of tourists both from Domestic and overseas tourist visit the temple,  especially by the Sunset Time till late afternoon when the beautiful Sunset is.  In this location you can  also find the wild monkey a long the cliff near the sacred holy temple. We strongly recommend you in order not ever to disturb or hurt the sacred animals.