Day 1 · Yogyakarta
Arrive in Yogyakarta
Your guide meets you at Yogyakarta International Airport and takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to rest after the flight.
- Travel
- 15 km, about 30 minutes
15 days · 14 nights
Temples and volcanoes across Java, Bali's highlands, then three quiet nights on Gili Trawangan.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesStart 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.
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 International Airport and takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to rest after the flight.
Borobudur and Yogyakarta
Day 2 · Borobudur and Yogyakarta
Leave at 7 am for Borobudur, the world's largest Buddhist temple, built by hand from volcanic and river stone over more than 75 years. Visit the older Mendut temple and the small, symmetrical Pawon, lunch among the rice fields, then ride a horse cart through Candirejo village to see cassava crackers made, gamelan played and vanilla and chilli dried.
Yogyakarta
Day 3 · Yogyakarta
Walk through the Sultan's Palace, built in the 18th century, then ride a becak, a pedicab, to Taman Sari, the old royal water palace. After lunch, visit Prambanan, the 9th-century Hindu temple complex on the UNESCO World Heritage list, with shrines to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
Trowulan and Bromo
Day 4 · Trowulan and Bromo
An early executive train runs east to Mojokerto, where your driver meets you for Trowulan, once capital of the Majapahit empire. Lunch at the fishing harbour of Pasuruan, then climb to Tosari or Sukapura, villages at about 1,700 metres on the edge of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.
Bromo and Banyuwangi
Day 5 · Bromo and Banyuwangi
Leave by 4x4 at 3 am across the Sea of Sand to the Penanjakan viewpoint for sunrise behind Bromo. Drive down into the caldera, ride a horse for about 25 minutes, then climb the steps to the rim of the active crater. After breakfast and lunch on the road, continue to Banyuwangi at the eastern tip of Java.
Ijen and Ubud
Day 6 · Ijen and Ubud
A 4x4 reaches the Paltuding base camp before dawn for a 3 km trek of about 1.5 to 2 hours to the summit of Ijen, passing the miners who carry sulphur out of the crater by hand. From the top you look down on the jade crater lake. Later, drive to Ketapang for the ferry to Bali, with lunch in Pemuteran, arriving in Ubud in the evening.
Ubud
Day 7 · Ubud
A day with nothing planned, to rest at the hotel pool after the volcanoes or wander Ubud at your own pace.
Penglipuran and Besakih
Day 8 · Penglipuran and Besakih
Visit the traditional village of Penglipuran, then Besakih, Bali's mother temple, with some 30 temples on seven terraces up the mountain. After lunch, stop at Goa Lawah, the temple at the mouth of a bat cave, and return to Ubud by late afternoon.
Bedugul, Jatiluwih and Kuta
Day 9 · Bedugul, Jatiluwih and Kuta
Begin at Taman Ayun, the royal temple of the old Mengwi kingdom, then head up to Lake Bratan and Ulun Danu temple in the cool hills. After a local market and lunch, see the Jatiluwih rice terraces and Batukaru temple before driving to Kuta.
Uluwatu and Jimbaran
Day 10 · Uluwatu and Jimbaran
A free morning, then drive to Uluwatu, a temple on the cliffs at Bali's southern tip, watched over by its monkeys. At sunset, watch the Kecak dance tell the story of Rama and Sita, then finish with a grilled seafood dinner in Jimbaran.
Gili Trawangan
Day 11 · Gili Trawangan
Transfer to Serangan for the morning speedboat to Gili Trawangan, where a cidomo, the island's horse cart, takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
Days 12 to 13 · Gili Trawangan
Two days with nothing planned: the pool, a book, sunsets from the beach, or water sports if you want to be busy.
Kuta
Day 14 · Kuta
A cidomo takes you to the late morning speedboat back to Serangan, and a transfer to your hotel in Kuta. The rest of the day is free.
Day 15 · Kuta
Breakfast and free time until check-out, then a transfer to the airport for your flight home.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Yogyakarta · 3 nights
Or similar
Bromo · 1 night
In Tosari or Sukapura, near the national park. Or similar
Banyuwangi · 1 night
Or similar
Ubud · 3 nights
Or similar
Kuta · 3 nights
Two nights before Gili Trawangan and one after. Or similar
Gili Trawangan · 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
5 days · 4 nights
Bali → Senggigi → Bali
Fly across from Bali and settle into one hotel in Senggigi for four nights. From there, private day trips take you to the island's craft villages and southern beaches, out by boat to three small Gili islands for snorkelling, and north to a waterfall in the hills.
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.
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.
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