Highlight of Bali Tour
Description
Join the Highlight of Bali Tour and experience the island’s rich cultural soul in just one day, combining history, craftsmanship, nature, and authentic village life. With a professional guide and air-conditioned transport, this tour blends culture, landscape, and local connection This full-day journey takes you beyond Bali’s beaches to discover traditional gong-making in Blahbatuh Village, where you can witness artisans tuning gongs by ear and even try playing the gamelan. Explore ancient Balinese heritage at Gedong Arca Museum, home to rare stone coffins and sacred artifacts. Then, walk through lush plantations in Sri Batu, sample world-famous Luwak coffee with local snacks, and enjoy a scenic lunch overlooking Mount Batur’s volcanic beauty. The tour ends in Penglipuran Village, one of the cleanest villages in the world, where you’ll wear Balinese attire, walk through bamboo forests, and experience local life.
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Itinerary
Watch how each gong is molded, painted, and hand-tuned using only the gong-smith’s ear — a fascinating process that connects deeply with Balinese spirituality. You’ll even have a chance to try playing the gamelan yourself.
Explore ancient stone carvings, sacred manuscripts, and even a rare stone coffin used by Balinese royalty in the past.
You’ll walk through lush fields of coffee trees, tropical fruits, herbs, and spices. Enjoy a tasting session of locally made teas and coffees, including the world-famous Luwak coffee, served with traditional Balinese snacks. Before you leave, you’ll have the chance to purchase freshly packed coffee, tea, or chocolate to bring home.
In the cool mountains of Kintamani, take in the views of Mt Batur. Black lava runs from the peak of this active volcano to the valley floor, where the shimmering Lake Batur — Bali’s widest lake — lies at its base. Stop here for a delicious lunch (own expense), served in a local restaurant offering an Indonesian buffet and magnificent vistas. Marvel at the crescent-shaped lake, surrounded by the steep walls of the crater rim where the original Mt Batur erupted tens of thousands of years ago.
On the way in, you’ll pass through a peaceful bamboo forest before arriving at the village gates. Here, you’ll have the chance to wear traditional Balinese custom and stroll through the beautifully preserved streets, observing daily life and strong cultural values.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Pick up is available from most centrally located in Kuta, Legian, Tuban, Sanur, Denpasar, Jimbaran, Tanjung Benoa, and Nusa Dua areas. Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby 15 minutes prior to your scheduled pick-up time.
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Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Additional charges for cruise passengers
Reviews(33)
Our guide Oka gave us such a full and interesting tour, really helping us understand Bali’s history and culture. The itinerary was thorough and varied with some flexibility to add a stop at a silver mgr. it was a full day, extremely well spent. We also appreciated the professionalism of the tour co, our guide and our driver. We highly recommend!
Thank you very much for your kind review. We are delighted to hear that Oka provided an informative and enjoyable tour and that you appreciated the flexibility and professionalism of our team. We truly value your recommendation and hope to welcome you again in Bali.
Full day tour of Bali. Our guide Sande was great he told us a lot about the history and culture of Bali. Sande was very informative about every site we visited , lunch at Mt Batur was spectacular. Great tour , highly recommended for first time visitors to Bali.
Hi 397marty, thank you for sharing your experience following your recent tour with Tour East Indonesia. We are pleased to learn that you had a memorable tour with us. We will pass your nice feedback to our guide. Thank you for your review and we hope to serve you again in the future. Cheers.
<p>Wadee was good guide. You get to see a lot of Bali. Good to do first few days. Coffee place was nice and seeing the workplaces near Ubud was cool. u have to pay for lunch, but the place Wadee took me (Panca Yoga Restaurant) was a buffet and they asked for 125k. I only had 100k and they accept. Food ok</p>
<p>This tour was AMAZING !! Rich of culture and the tour guide was friendly</p>
<p>Our guide Windra was kind enough to rearrange his itinerary, to leave out places we had already been and to add things we hadn't seen the previous day on our similar Highlights tour. Started out with the Barong Dance Show -- very enjoyable! Then lunch at a place called Rapuan Cili -- very good food, good prices, and a lovely view of green fields and a blue swimming pool below. Then we visited a traditional village called Penglipuran. We were allowed to go into a family's home and see their humble circumstances and backyard garden. From there we saw the community temple, then walked beyond the town, to see the bamboo forest. After that, we were supposed to go to a scenic lookout to view the terraced rice fields however, we were taken to a non-tourist overlook that was overgrown and smelly. Then we got dropped off at a huge jewelry store, when we were expecting to see jewelry-making craftspeople. The day was great for the most part, but the last 2 stops were very unnecessary -- we would rather have gone back to our hotel early..</p>
<p>Saw and learned a lot about the island's culture and sight. Tour guide was very professional and knowledgeable. Would recommend to get an in-depth learning experience.</p>
<p>We were hoping to get a real experience of seeing Bali and some of this tour fulfilled it. There were several stops at places where the locals did arts like textiles, painting and wooden sculptures, describing how they made the artifacts and we had to basically walk through these places in hopes of buying something. Some of these places were interesting in terms of seeing how they made their products but other places like the place with paintings and making of silver jewellery was a waste of time and was clearly just a stop to shop. The coffee plantation and village we stopped at was very informative and great because they were not typical touristy stops and the village really gives a true authentic glimpse of the Balinese village life. The stop at the volcano and the lunch was also a nice visit. Some of this tour was really educational but some of it seemed too much of a shopping trip and it could have been shorter were it not for a few of these stops. Overall, its worth going on.</p>
<p>lots of tourist in Bali but few are taking tours . I was the only one on this tour . This should have presented opportunities to customize. Instead rushed through and dropped off at the airport 2 hours early. As DPS does not permit checking in until 3 hours prior to flight time I had a long wait at the airport. There is no seating in the precheckin area. People just sit on metal rails or lie down on the tile floor.</p>
<p>I found this trip very disappointing. It seemed for 3 hours of the trip I was taken to many places with an expection of buying, silver, paintings, wood carvings, coffee and clothing/handbags. As a tourist I do understand there is a need for us to visit places for 5 different places in one day is too many and the time could have been used taking me to see the sights. I did enjoy the volcano view and also the coffee/tea tasting but I don't think this trip was value for money and then other trips we did were better. I wouldn't recommend this trip</p>
<p>The tour guide was great! He asked about my interests and managed to get around so many places over the day. I saw the batik, jewellery, wood carving all being made at different places. The mount Batur view was absolutely beautiful but my real highlight was the coffee tasting!! Thank you !!</p>
