Day 1 · Yogyakarta
Arrive in Yogyakarta
Your guide meets you at Yogyakarta airport and takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
11 days · 10 nights
Java's great temples and volcanoes, then Bali's villages and a slow finish by the sea.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesThree nights in Yogyakarta take in Borobudur, Prambanan and the Sultan's Palace. A train and a long drive carry you east to the rim of the Bromo caldera for sunrise, before you fly to Bali for three nights in Ubud and three more on the beach at Sanur.
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 and takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
Borobudur and Yogyakarta
Day 2 · Borobudur and Yogyakarta
Reach Borobudur early, ahead of the crowds, and explore the world's largest Buddhist temple and its surroundings by classic bicycle with your guide. Ride a horse-drawn cart through the village of Candirejo, where you may see cassava crackers being made, gamelan being played or vanilla drying in the sun. In the afternoon a Javanese shaman reads your character by the old Javanese calendar, and dinner is a royal family menu at Dalem Joyokusumo, a former royal residence.
Yogyakarta and Prambanan
Day 3 · Yogyakarta and Prambanan
Walk through the Kraton, the Sultan's Palace, then ride a becak to Taman Sari, the old royal bathing pools. Cycle through Kotagede to watch its silversmiths at work, and after lunch visit the twin temple of Plaosan among the rice fields. A horse-drawn cart takes you to Prambanan, the ninth century Hindu temples, and you finish at Ratu Boko for sunset with Mount Merapi in the distance.
Ngadisari
Day 4 · Ngadisari
Board an early executive class train east towards Jombang with your guide, through the volcanic country of Central and East Java. Your driver then continues to Ngadisari, a cool village at about 1,700 metres on the edge of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, stopping at Trowulan, once the capital of the Majapahit empire, and for lunch at the fishing harbour of Pasuruan.
Mount Bromo and Ubud
Day 5 · Mount Bromo and Ubud
Set out by 4x4 before dawn for the Penanjakan lookout, at 2,770 metres, to watch the sun rise behind Bromo. Drive down across the sea of sand into the caldera, ride a horse for about 25 minutes, then climb the stairway to the rim of the active crater. After breakfast and lunch, transfer to Surabaya for the flight to Bali, where your guide meets you and drives you to Ubud.
Guliang Kawan and Penglipuran
Day 6 · Guliang Kawan and Penglipuran
Spend the day in a Balinese family compound, welcomed with tea, coffee and local cakes. See coconut oil made, along with blacksmithing, hat making, palm wine and pandanus mats, try climbing a coconut palm and plant rice with traditional tools before lunch in the gazebo. Later visit Penglipuran, a village known for its rows of traditional gateways.
Tegallalang, Kintamani and Tampak Siring
Day 7 · Tegallalang, Kintamani and Tampak Siring
Stop at the Tegallalang rice terraces and the temple of Sebatu, then drive up to Kintamani for lunch looking over Mount Batur and its crescent lake. On the way back, visit Tirta Empul, where Balinese worshippers have come to its holy spring for more than a thousand years.
Ubud and Sanur
Day 8 · Ubud and Sanur
Browse the Ubud art market for crafts and spices, then walk north from the palace through rice paddies, an organic farm and small villages to a painter's home. After lunch, transfer to Sanur on the east coast, known for its sunrises over the beach.
Uluwatu and Tanjung Benoa
Day 9 · Uluwatu and Tanjung Benoa
A free morning, then an afternoon at Uluwatu, the temple on a headland high above the sea, reached through a grove where monkeys roam. Watch the Kecak dance against the sunset, then head to Tanjung Benoa for a Balinese rijsttafel dinner of many small dishes.
Sanur
Day 10 · Sanur
A free day on the beach. For an early start, a guided pre-dawn walk up Mount Batur for sunrise over Mount Agung can be added, with breakfast cooked in the volcano's steam and a soak in the hot springs at Toya Bungkah afterwards.
Day 11 · Sanur
Time at leisure, then a transfer to Denpasar 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 the cool hills near the national park. Or similar
Ubud · 3 nights
Or similar
Sanur · 3 nights
On the east coast beach. 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.
Three nights in Yogyakarta take in Borobudur, Prambanan and the Sultan's Palace. A train and a long drive carry you east to the rim of the Bromo caldera for sunrise, before you fly to Bali for three nights in Ubud and three more on the beach at Sanur.
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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