Two nights in the rice country above Ubud, then two on the coast at Sanur with a full day across the strait on Nusa Penida. Terraces and temples first, then the cliffs at Kelingking — you pick the departure date and the hotel tier.
FromUS$300per person, twin share — four nights' hotel with breakfast, all guided touring. Compare the three hotel tiers
Fly in and out of Ngurah Rai International (DPS), the island’s only airport. Nearly every long-haul route connects through Jakarta, Singapore or Kuala Lumpur.
Confirmation
Book at least 7 days before departure. We confirm hotel and touring availability within 24 hours of your deposit, and refund in full if we cannot secure your dates. Before we confirm we check your dates against anything the itinerary is built round — museums, markets and monuments keep weekly closing days, and we would rather move a day than spend one at a locked gate.
Temples require a sarong and sash, which are lent at the gate everywhere on this itinerary, and a shoulder covering you bring yourself.
The trip at a glance
Ubud & the Highlands
Days 1–3 · 2 nights
01
Arrival
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Arrival in Bali AT LEISURE
Arrive at Ngurah Rai International. Make your own way in — the transfer is not included — it is 35 km north to Ubud but allow 90 minutes, because the road out of the south is slow at almost any hour.
Check in and rest. Nothing today is time-critical, and the plan works with a morning or a late-night arrival.
Late afternoon in Ubud itself — the palace, the art market opposite it, and the lanes running off Jalan Hanoman.
Dinner in town. Ubud eats early by island standards; most kitchens wind down around 21:30.
Your guide will confirm the next morning’s pickup at check-in. Day 2 runs from mid-morning through to sunset at Tanah Lot, so keep tonight easy.
02
Ubud
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Terraces, Temples & Tanah Lot at Sunset GUIDED
Walk the Campuhan Ridge Walk before your guide arrives — two kilometres along a grass spine between two rivers, free to walk, and pleasant only before about 08:30. It starts a few minutes from the centre of town.
The guided day starts mid-morning and runs through to sunset. First the Sacred Monkey Forest: banyan trees, three temples, and several hundred macaques. Nothing loose, nothing shiny, no food in your hands — they are quick and they are not tame.
North to Tegallalang, the terraces watered by the subak system that has run these valleys for a thousand years. Small toll gates on the paths take cash.
Then Tirta Empul, the spring temple where Balinese Hindus bathe under twenty-three spouts in sequence. You may join the queue; a sarong and a change of clothes are the whole requirement.
West across the island to Tanah Lot for sunset — the temple on a rock stack that the tide cuts off twice a day, and the most photographed sunset in Bali. Your driver has you there before the light goes, which is why the day ends this side of the island.
Bring small notes. Temple entry, terrace paths and parking are all cash and are not inside your tour price, and nobody has change for a 100,000 rupiah note.
In your price today — with your guide
Ubud, Tegallalang & Tanah Lot day
03
To Sanur
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Ubud to the Coast AT LEISURE
No guide today and nothing booked. The morning is yours in Ubud — the market, the lanes off Jalan Hanoman, or a second look at whatever yesterday went past too quickly.
The one thing worth an alarm is Mount Batur, the active volcano sitting inside a far older caldera with a crescent lake beside it. Climbing it for sunrise means a 02:00 pickup and two hours up scree in the dark, back by late morning. It is the card below, it is booked ahead, and it takes the whole morning with it.
Move down to Sanur whenever you are ready — about 25 km, an hour or so, and longer if you leave it late in the afternoon. The transfer is not included: we will quote you a car with your booking, or your Ubud hotel will call one.
Sanur is the quiet old beach town on the east coast, and the harbour every Nusa Penida boat leaves from. A shallow lagoon, a paved path the length of the seafront, and an early night — day 4 starts before dawn.
Nothing today is in your price, the guide is gone and the day is yours. This is the one thing here worth booking before you fly.
Let us book it — per person, in US dollars
Before dawn
Mount Batur at sunrise, on foot
Collected from your Ubud hotel at two in the morning for the two-hour climb, breakfast on the summit as the sun comes up over the lake, and back by late morning — in time to move down to the coast.
Tell us which you want when you confirm. Gate tickets travel with your documents; anything we book goes into your price at the figure shown, and the voucher comes from us. Prices as at 10 September 2026.
Nusa Penida
Days 4–5 · 2 nights
04
Nusa Penida
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Nusa Penida by Fast Boat GUIDED
Early pickup and down to Sanur for the fast boat. Forty-five minutes across the strait to Toyapakeh — the crossing can be lively when the current is running.
Kelingking Beach first, before the tour boats arrive: a headland shaped like a sleeping dinosaur with white sand two hundred metres below. The viewpoint is the photograph. The path down is a genuine scramble on a rope-and-timber staircase and most people look rather than climb.
Broken Beach and Angel's Billabong next door — a circular cove the sea runs into through a stone arch, and a rock pool at the cliff edge that is clear as glass at low tide. Swim in the Billabong only when the swell is down; your driver will tell you straight, and the honest answer some days is no.
Lunch on the cliff, then Crystal Bay for the easiest swimming on the island and the boat back.
The island roads are rough and the day is long — about 6:30am to 6pm door to door. It is the best day of this trip and it is not a restful one.
In your price today — with your guide
Nusa Penida day trip — return fast boat, private car and driver-guide, and lunch
05
Sanur
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Sunrise Coast & Departure AT LEISURE
Sanur faces east, so this is the one beach in Bali where the sun comes up over the water rather than going down into it. Worth the early alarm on your last morning.
The paved path runs the length of the seafront if you want a walk, and the lagoon is shallow and calm enough to swim before breakfast.
Transfer to DPS when you are ready. Allow three hours from Sanur at the door of the terminal — the airport road backs up badly in the afternoon.
Restaurants worth trying
Breakfast is in the price. Every other meal is yours to choose, so here is where we would eat. We do not arrange any of these and you would pay for them yourself. They are simply places we rate, near where the trip goes. Tick any you like and they appear on the map.
Suggested, not included. Opening hours and prices are theirs, not ours — and a place that is busy at eight will be busy whether or not you booked through us.
Hotels & price
Four nights — two in Ubud, two in Sanur, always with daily breakfast. Choose the tier that suits you; we hold the room and confirm the property in writing.
Comfort · 3★
3-star hotel in each city
from US$300 per person · single supplement +US$95
Deluxe · 4★
4-star hotel in each cityFour-star hotels: a clear step up in room and address from Comfort.
from US$470 per person · single supplement +US$220
Luxury · 5★
5-star hotel in each cityFive-star hotels, the top of our list in each city.
from US$855 per person · single supplement +US$510
You will know exactly where you are staying before you pay a balance. We name the property in your confirmation, in writing, as soon as the room is held — and if it is ever unavailable for your dates we substitute at the same tier or better, never below it.
All prices are per person, twin share, in US dollars — the figure on each tab is what you pay us. Travelling alone is possible; the single supplement covers sole use of the room.
Hotel tier
Per person, twin share
Single supplement
Comfort — 3★, twin share
from US$300
+US$95
Deluxe — 4★, twin share
from US$470
+US$220
Luxury — 5★, twin share
from US$855
+US$510
Seasonal pricing. The figures above are low and shoulder season. High season, July to August, costs meaningfully more; the fortnight around Christmas and New Year is the dearest of the year and books out earliest. The wet season, November to March, is the cheapest and the rain is usually an afternoon hour rather than a lost day.
Included
4 nights' accommodation with daily breakfast, in the hotel tier you choose · two guided days — day 2 Ubud, Tegallalang and Tirta Empul, and day 4 the Nusa Penida day trip with its fast boat and lunch · English-speaking guide and private car with driver
Not included
Airport transfers, which we exclude on every tour to keep the headline price honest — we will quote them with your booking · The Ubud to Sanur move on day 3 — about an hour by road, and we will quote you a car with your booking · Temple entry and donations — budget around IDR 250,000 (about US$16) per person across the trip, which the day 2 tour price does not carry · international flights · the Indonesian visa on arrival, IDR 500,000 · lunches and dinners · travel insurance · tips and personal expenses
How the flexi tour works. Choose any departure date and a hotel tier → we confirm availability and the exact price within 24 hours → pay a deposit to hold it → your final documents and vouchers arrive by email a week before you fly. There is no group to join and no fixed departure day.
Start your booking
Tell us who you are and when you want to go.
We’ll reply within 24 hours with the price and what’s available.
A deposit holds it, and comes back in full if we can’t get your dates.
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