Day 1 · Yogyakarta
Arrive in Yogyakarta
Your guide meets you at Yogyakarta airport for the drive to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
- Travel
- 50 km, about 90 minutes
12 days · 11 nights
Three islands and three cultures, from Java's temples to the Toraja highlands and the heart of Bali.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesBegin with three nights in Yogyakarta for Borobudur, Prambanan and the slopes of Mount Merapi. Fly to Makassar on Sulawesi and drive up into the Toraja highlands, known for their carved boat-roofed houses and cliff graves. The trip ends with three nights in Ubud, including a free day and an outing to Mount Batur and Besakih.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Yogyakarta
Day 1 · Yogyakarta
Your guide meets you at Yogyakarta airport for the drive to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
Borobudur and Yogyakarta
Day 2 · Borobudur and Yogyakarta
Arrive at Borobudur before the crowds to explore the largest Buddhist temple in the world, built from volcanic and river stone over nearly a century. Back in the city, walk through the Sultan's Palace, once a walled city of its own, and have lunch at the restaurant behind it that keeps the palace's cooking alive. In the afternoon a Javanese shaman reads your character by the old Javanese calendar.
Kinahrejo and Prambanan
Day 3 · Kinahrejo and Prambanan
Ride an old jeep across the lava fields of Mount Merapi from the village of Kinahrejo, past the boulder thrown out by the last eruption, an evacuation bunker and a small museum of belongings from a house the lava destroyed. Cycle through rice fields and villages on the mountain's slopes to lunch, then visit Prambanan, the ninth century Hindu temples dedicated to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
Makassar
Day 4 · Makassar
Fly to Makassar on Sulawesi, where your guide meets you. Visit Fort Rotterdam, the city's sixteenth century landmark, Paotere harbour with its wooden phinisi sailing boats, and the Balla Lompoa Museum in the old palace of the Gowa kings. After lunch, see a mosque with 99 colourful domes before checking in.
Rantepao
Day 5 · Rantepao
A long drive north, with a seafood lunch in Parepare and a photo stop at the Puncak Lakawan lookout. You reach Rantepao in the Toraja highlands in the late afternoon.
Lemo, Londa and Ketekesu
Day 6 · Lemo, Londa and Ketekesu
Visit Lemo and Suaya, where carved tau tau effigies of nobles look out from graves cut into the cliffs, and Sangala, where infants were traditionally buried in tree trunks. After lunch, see the hanging coffins of Londa, then Ketekesu, with one of the finest rows of tongkonan houses, their tall curved roofs and painted facades.
Batutumonga and Marante
Day 7 · Batutumonga and Marante
Drive up to Batutumonga on the slopes of Mount Sesean for views over rice fields scattered with black volcanic boulders. An easy two-hour walk takes you through the villages of Bori and Palawa, with their stone circles and tongkonan houses. After lunch, visit Marante and its white-clad tau tau on the cliff.
Makassar
Day 8 · Makassar
The return drive to Makassar, with lunch along the way and dinner at your hotel.
Ubud
Day 9 · Ubud
Fly to Bali, where a local guide meets you. On the way to Ubud, visit a Balinese family compound, the holy spring temple of Tirta Empul, and Gunung Kawi, where ten shrines are cut into the cliff above the Petanu River. Lunch is near central Ubud before you check in.
Day 10 · Ubud
After the busy days behind you, a whole day with no plans.
Tegallalang, Kintamani and Besakih
Day 11 · Tegallalang, Kintamani and Besakih
Drive past the Tegallalang rice terraces, with time to walk down among them, to the lookout over Mount Batur and its lake. Continue east to Besakih, the largest and most important temple on Bali, on the slopes of Mount Agung, and have lunch facing the rice terraces and the volcano. In the evening you watch a Balinese dance, followed by dinner.
Ubud
Day 12 · Ubud
Free time until your transfer to Denpasar airport for the flight home.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Yogyakarta · 3 nights
Or similar
Makassar · 2 nights
One night before Toraja and one after. Or similar
Toraja · 3 nights
In Rantepao. Or similar
Ubud · 3 nights
Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Indonesia
12 days · 11 nights
Legian → Ubud → Gili Trawangan → Legian
After a first night in Legian, spend five nights in Ubud with four guided days among Bali's sea temples, volcano lakes, craft villages and rice terraces. A speedboat then takes you to Gili Trawangan for four free nights by the sea, before a last night back in Legian.
Indonesia
2 days · 1 night
Ubud or South Bali → Candidasa → Ubud or South Bali
A short private trip to Bali's quieter east coast. Spend the first morning on a reef restoration platform off Padangbai and snorkelling the Blue Lagoon, sleep in Candidasa, then visit Tenganan, a village of the Bali Aga, before heading back.
Indonesia
15 days · 14 nights
Yogyakarta → Bromo → Banyuwangi → Ubud → Kuta → Gili Trawangan → Kuta
Start in Yogyakarta with Borobudur, the Sultan's palace and Prambanan, then take the train east for sunrise over Bromo and a dawn climb to the Ijen crater. Cross to Bali for temples and rice terraces from Ubud and Kuta, and finish with three free nights on Gili Trawangan.
Begin with three nights in Yogyakarta for Borobudur, Prambanan and the slopes of Mount Merapi. Fly to Makassar on Sulawesi and drive up into the Toraja highlands, known for their carved boat-roofed houses and cliff graves. The trip ends with three nights in Ubud, including a free day and an outing to Mount Batur and Besakih.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Indonesia, closest in length first.
Private tour | 12 days | Legian · Ubud · Gili Trawangan
Private tour | 11 days | Yogyakarta · Bromo · Denpasar
Private tour | 15 days | Yogyakarta · Bromo · Gili Trawangan
Private tour | 8 days | Denpasar · Ubud · Seminyak
