Cornelius Amann
October 06, 2026
5/5
Java and Bali: Borobudur, Bromo and Ubud
14 days from Jakarta to Bali: Yogyakarta with Borobudur at sunrise and Prambanan, two nights on the rim of Bromo, the ferry to Bali, three nights in Ubud, the Sidemen valley and Sanur.
14 days · Jakarta to Sanur · up to 12 guests
Mount Bromo and the Sea of Sand at dawn, photographed during a period of ash venting in 2011 Photo: Ronald Tagra, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Bromo_spewing_ash_before_eruption_2011.jpg)
The facts
At a glance
- Length
- 14 days, 13 nights
- Start and end
- Jakarta to Sanur
- Group size
- 7 to 12 guests
- Activity level
Moderate
Mostly easy walking in towns and at temples, with three early starts (about 4 am at Borobudur, 3:30 am at Bromo, an optional 5 am walk to the rim on day 7 before a 6:45 departure), about 250 steps to Bromo's crater rim at about 2,330 m, about 300 steps each way at Gunung Kawi and a two-hour valley walk in Sidemen. Each demanding part has an easier option, and you can sit any part out.
- Meals included
- 13 breakfasts, 12 lunches, 6 dinners
- Room of your own
- + CAD 615 (estimated price)
- Season
- Best April to October (dry season)
Highlights
Why this trip
- Sunrise over Borobudur from Punthuk Setumbu, then the monument as the park opens
- Prambanan in the last light, then the Ramayana Ballet with the temples behind the stage
- Two nights on the rim of the Tengger caldera: sunrise over Bromo, the Sea of Sand, with an optional early second look at first light
- Across Java by executive-class train, and over the Bali Strait by ferry
- The Bali highlands at Munduk and Lake Beratan on the way to Ubud
- Ubud on foot at dawn, Tirta Empul at opening and a Legong or Barong dance
- Two nights in the Sidemen valley under Mount Agung, with the weavers and Tirta Gangga
- A last sunrise on the beach at Sanur
What makes this trip different
Free time is part of the plan
Free time and choices are marked on the days they fall.
Solo without the penalty
A room of your own is + CAD 615 (estimated price).
Day by day
Itinerary
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Arrive in Jakarta
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to central Jakarta, then Kota Tua
- Welcome dinner
- Stay in Jakarta
- Drive about 1 h
Fly into Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK), west of the city, where a driver meets you for the transfer into central Jakarta, usually about an hour but longer in heavy traffic.
Afternoon
If you land by about 2 pm, join your See Sight Tours guide and the group in the late afternoon for a first walk in Kota Tua, the old town of Dutch Batavia.
Evening
Fatahillah Square is at its best as the heat goes out of the day: the white former city hall on its south side, finished in 1710, is now the Jakarta History Museum, and the square fills with families, cyclists and street vendors towards evening. A short drive away, wooden pinisi schooners still load cargo at the old harbour of Sunda Kelapa. Then we sit down to a welcome dinner and a briefing on the two weeks ahead: trains, early starts, what to pack for the cold at Bromo, and how the days are paced.
Included
- Pick-up at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)
- Late-afternoon walk in Kota Tua: Fatahillah Square and Sunda Kelapa harbour
- Welcome dinner and briefing with your guide
Free time: Free until the late-afternoon walk
Activity: Land by about 2 pm to join the Kota Tua walk; later arrivals meet the group at the welcome dinner.
By train across Java to Yogyakarta
Jakarta to Yogyakarta by executive-class train
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Yogyakarta
- By train
Morning
After breakfast we take an executive-class train from Gambir station in central Jakarta to Yogyakarta, a journey of about seven hours. It is the comfortable way to cross Java: reclining seats, air-conditioning and a long view of the island from the window, first the flat rice country of the north coast, then the hills and volcanoes of Central Java.
Afternoon
Lunch is a Javanese meal on board, served at your seat. We arrive in the afternoon and settle into a central hotel for three nights, so nobody repacks until day 5.
Evening
In the evening your guide takes the group out for street food on foot: gudeg, young jackfruit slow-cooked in palm sugar and coconut milk, the dish Yogyakarta is known for, and a glass of kopi joss at a roadside angkringan stall, black coffee with a lump of glowing charcoal dropped into it. The walk ends near Malioboro, the city's long main street, so you can stay out or head back to the hotel.
Included
- Executive-class train from Jakarta (Gambir) to Yogyakarta
- Lunch on the train
- Evening street food walk with your guide, with dinner
Activity: If the timetable changes, we take the nearest executive-class train; times are confirmed with your final itinerary.
Borobudur at sunrise
Yogyakarta to Punthuk Setumbu and Borobudur, then back to Yogyakarta
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Yogyakarta
- Drive about 2.5 h
We leave Yogyakarta at about 4 am and drive an hour and a quarter to Punthuk Setumbu, a wooded hill west of Borobudur.
Morning
A short climb on steps and a path brings you to the viewpoint in time for sunrise, when the temple rises out of the valley mist with the volcanoes Merapi and Merbabu behind it. Breakfast follows, then Borobudur itself as the park opens. Built in the 8th and 9th centuries and listed by UNESCO in 1991, it is the largest Buddhist monument in the world: nine stacked terraces, about 2,670 carved relief panels and 504 Buddha statues, with 72 bell-shaped stupas around the summit. Numbers allowed onto the monument are capped each day with timed tickets, so we book the earliest slot we can and walk the galleries with a local guide.
Afternoon
On the way back we stop at the small temples of Pawon and Mendut, and lunch is a sit-down meal in a village near Borobudur. The afternoon is free.
Included
- Sunrise over Borobudur from Punthuk Setumbu
- Borobudur with a local guide, including a timed ticket onto the monument where available
- Mendut and Pawon temples
- Sit-down lunch near Borobudur
Easier option: Skip the sunrise climb and join the group for breakfast at Borobudur, leaving the hotel at about 6:30 am.
Free time: Afternoon free in Yogyakarta
Activity: A 4 am start. The sunrise path takes about 15 minutes on steps; on the monument, special sandals are handed out and must be worn.
The Kraton, Prambanan and the Ramayana
Yogyakarta: the Kraton and Taman Sari, then Prambanan
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Yogyakarta
- Drive about 1.5 h
Morning
A slower morning in the city. Your guide walks you through the Kraton, the palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, whose pavilions, gamelan sets and court regalia explain why the city still has a reigning sultan, and on to Taman Sari, the 18th-century royal water garden with its bathing pools and underground passages.
Afternoon
Lunch together, then a rest through the heat of the day. In the late afternoon we drive about 45 minutes east to Prambanan, the 9th-century Hindu temple compound listed by UNESCO alongside Borobudur. The central shrine to Shiva rises 47 m, flanked by the temples of Brahma and Vishnu, and the stone turns gold in the last hour before closing, when the day visitors have mostly gone.
Evening
Dinner is nearby, then the Ramayana Ballet, danced to gamelan on an open-air stage with the floodlit temples behind it in the dry season, and indoors in the wet months.
Included
- The Kraton (Sultan's Palace) and Taman Sari with your guide
- Lunch in Yogyakarta
- Prambanan in the late afternoon
- Dinner and the Ramayana Ballet at Prambanan
Free time: Early afternoon free to rest
Activity: The Kraton opens in the morning only and closes on some days and for court ceremonies, and the Ramayana Ballet runs on set evenings; we schedule departures so day 4 falls on a Kraton opening day and a performance night, and confirm both with your final itinerary.
East to the Tengger highlands
Yogyakarta to Surabaya by train, then by road up to Cemoro Lawang
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Bromo (Cemoro Lawang)
- Drive about 4 h
A travel day, split so that no single stretch is long.
Afternoon
We take a morning executive-class train east from Yogyakarta to Surabaya, about four and a half hours across the farmland of Central and East Java, then sit down to lunch in Surabaya. From there the road runs east on the toll road to Probolinggo and climbs into the Tengger highlands, about 145 km and three and a half to four hours in all, just inside our four-hour limit, with a stop on the way. The air cools as you climb, the rice fields give way to steep plots of potatoes, cabbages and spring onions, and by late afternoon you reach Cemoro Lawang, a village on the rim of the Tengger caldera at about 2,200 m. From the edge of the village you look straight down onto the Sea of Sand, with Bromo smoking in the middle and the cone of Batok beside it.
Evening
Dinner is at the lodge, with an early night before tomorrow's start.
Included
- Executive-class train from Yogyakarta to Surabaya
- Sit-down lunch in Surabaya
- Drive with your guide to Cemoro Lawang on the Tengger caldera rim
- Dinner at the lodge
Activity: Cemoro Lawang sits at about 2,200 m; nights are cold for most of the year, so bring a warm layer and a hat.
Sunrise over Bromo
Cemoro Lawang to a sunrise viewpoint, across the Sea of Sand to Bromo's crater, and back
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Bromo (Cemoro Lawang)
Jeeps collect us at about 3:30 am and climb to a viewpoint on the outer rim of the caldera: Penanjakan, at about 2,770 m, or a quieter hill nearby on mornings when Penanjakan is crowded. As the sky lightens, Bromo, Batok and the sea of cloud appear, with Semeru, Java's highest volcano, smoking on the horizon on clear mornings. The jeeps then drop down onto the Sea of Sand, the flat floor of the old caldera, past the Tengger temple of Luhur Poten to the foot of Bromo. A walk across the ash and about 250 concrete steps take you to the crater rim at about 2,330 m, where you look down into the steaming vent, if access is open on the day.
Morning
We are back at the lodge for a late breakfast.
Afternoon
The rest of the day is slow: sleep, then in the afternoon walk along the rim or down through the Tengger village of Ngadisari with your guide, as the light falls across the caldera.
Included
- Jeep to a sunrise viewpoint on the caldera rim
- The Sea of Sand and the walk up to Bromo's crater rim, if access is open
- Late breakfast, lunch and dinner at the lodge
- Afternoon walk on the rim or through Ngadisari with your guide
Easier option: Watch sunrise from the viewpoint, then stay with the jeep on the Sea of Sand instead of climbing to the crater, or ride a horse across the sand to the foot of the steps.
Free time: Late morning free to rest
Activity: A 3:30 am start. Temperatures at the viewpoint can be close to freezing at dawn; the crater walk is about 2 km return on loose ash with about 250 steps. Bromo's crater can close when the volcano's alert level rises; the viewpoint usually stays open.
Across Java's east end and over to Bali
Cemoro Lawang to Probolinggo, by train to Banyuwangi, by ferry to Gilimanuk, then Pemuteran
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Pemuteran
- Drive about 2 h
Morning
An early start, because the morning train east leaves Probolinggo at about 8 am. If cloud hid yesterday's sunrise, there is an optional second look: a ten-minute walk from the lodge to the rim at about 5 am for first light over the caldera, back for breakfast at 6. Everyone else sleeps until breakfast.
Afternoon
We leave at about 6:45 and drive an hour and a quarter down to Probolinggo for the train along the length of East Java to Banyuwangi, about four and a half hours through rice and sugar-cane country, arriving around midday. The station is a short walk from Ketapang harbour; we have lunch nearby, then the car ferry crosses the Bali Strait to Gilimanuk in about an hour. The ferries run around the clock. From Gilimanuk it is about 45 minutes along the north-west coast to Pemuteran, a quiet fishing village with Hindu temples and a mosque below the hills of West Bali National Park.
Evening
We arrive mid-afternoon, with time for a swim before dinner. It is the trip's longest travel day, about nine hours door to door, but only about two of them are by road.
Included
- Optional early walk to the caldera rim for a second sunrise, about 5 am
- Morning train from Probolinggo to Banyuwangi
- Lunch near Ketapang harbour
- Ferry across the Bali Strait from Ketapang to Gilimanuk
- Dinner in Pemuteran
- The Bali tourist levy, paid for you
Easier option: Skip the early rim walk and sleep until breakfast at 6.
Free time: Late afternoon free in Pemuteran
Activity: A 6:45 am departure, timed to the current morning train (leaving Probolinggo at about 8:00 to 8:20 and reaching Ketapang at about 12:15 to 12:45); we confirm the train with your final itinerary. If it does not run, the fallback is the road via Situbondo and the edge of Baluran National Park, about five hours with a lunch stop; we tell you before you travel.
Through the highlands to Ubud
Pemuteran to Munduk and Lake Beratan, then Ubud
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Ubud
- Drive about 4 h
Morning
Start the morning in the water if you like: Pemuteran's calm bay has a long-running coral restoration project close to the beach, and snorkelling gear is ready for an early swim before breakfast.
Afternoon
At about 9 am we leave the coast and climb south into the hills behind Seririt to Munduk, a village of clove and coffee gardens on a ridge at about 800 m, often in cloud by early afternoon. Lunch is a sit-down meal with a view over the valley, then a short walk on the forest paths below the village. The road continues past the twin lakes of Buyan and Tamblingan to Lake Beratan, where the shrines of Pura Ulun Danu Beratan, dedicated to the lake goddess, stand at the water's edge. From there it is downhill through Bedugul and the rice country of Tabanan to Ubud, about four hours of driving, but with the swim, lunch, the walk and the lake it is a full day, six to seven hours on the move. We reach Ubud in the late afternoon, for three nights.
Included
- Early swim or snorkel off the beach at Pemuteran, gear provided
- Sit-down lunch in Munduk and a short forest walk
- Pura Ulun Danu Beratan on Lake Beratan
Activity: Mountain roads with many bends; tell your guide if you are prone to travel sickness and we will seat you at the front.
Ubud on foot
Campuhan Ridge, Ubud Palace and the market, and a dance in the evening
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Ubud
Ubud is best early, before the scooters and the day visitors arrive from the coast. At about 6:30 am your guide walks with anyone who wants to go along the Campuhan Ridge, a paved path on a grassy spine between two river valleys, where farmers and joggers are the only other people at that hour.
Morning
After breakfast we walk into the centre of town: Puri Saren, the palace of Ubud's royal family, with its carved gates and courtyards, and the market across the road, where the morning trade in flowers, fruit and the palm-leaf offerings you will see on every doorstep is over by mid-morning.
Afternoon
Lunch is a sit-down Balinese meal, then the afternoon is free to wander the galleries and lanes, book a massage or sleep.
Evening
In the evening we go to a dance performance, Legong or Barong, by one of Ubud's village troupes, with the full gamelan orchestra, in a palace or temple courtyard.
Included
- Dawn walk on the Campuhan Ridge with your guide
- Puri Saren (Ubud Palace) and the morning market
- Sit-down lunch in Ubud
- Evening Balinese dance performance
Free time: Afternoon free in Ubud
Activity: The Campuhan Ridge walk is about 4 km return on a paved path with one short climb.
Water temple and royal tombs
Ubud to Tirta Empul and Gunung Kawi at Tampaksiring, and back
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Ubud
- Drive about 1.5 h
We leave Ubud at about 7:30 am to reach Tirta Empul, about 40 minutes north, as it opens, before the tour buses. The temple was founded in the 10th century around a holy spring, and Balinese families come to bathe under its row of carved spouts to purify themselves; your guide explains the order of the fountains if you want to join the ritual, in a sarong provided at the gate. A few minutes away, Gunung Kawi is reached by about 300 steps down through rice terraces to a river gorge, where shrines about 7 m tall were carved into the cliff faces in the 11th century, thought to be memorials to a Balinese king and his family.
Afternoon
Lunch is at a warung above the rice fields, and we are back in Ubud by early afternoon. The rest of the day is yours: the Sacred Monkey Forest, a cooking class or the pool.
Included
- Tirta Empul water temple at opening, sarong included
- Gunung Kawi rock-cut shrines
- Lunch above the rice fields
Optional experiences
- Mount Batur sunrise hike with a local guide, about a 2 am pick-up from Ubud (extra, price shown at booking). If you hike, you see Tirta Empul late in the morning on the way down, not at opening, then join the group for lunch; you miss Gunung Kawi.
Easier option: Stay at the top at Gunung Kawi, at the café by the gate, instead of walking the steps down to the gorge and back.
More active option: Walk on field paths between the two temples with your guide instead of taking the vehicle.
Free time: Afternoon free in Ubud
Activity: About 300 steps down to Gunung Kawi and the same back up.
East to the Sidemen valley
Ubud to Semarapura (Klungkung), then Sidemen
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Sidemen
- Drive about 1.5 h
A short drive east, about an hour and a half in all. We stop in Semarapura, the old royal capital of Klungkung, at the Kerta Gosa, a pavilion of the old Klungkung court where justice was once heard. Its ceiling is painted in the traditional Kamasan style with panels from the Bhima Swarga, scenes of the punishments that wait in the afterlife, and the floating pavilion beside it stands in a lotus moat. Then the road turns north into the Sidemen valley, a long green trough of terraced rice fields and coconut palms, with Mount Agung, Bali's highest and most sacred volcano, filling the top of the valley on a clear day.
Afternoon
Lunch is in Sidemen. The afternoon is free: the hotels sit among the fields, so it is easy to walk out on your own along the irrigation channels, swim, or sit with a book and watch the light change on the mountain. Two nights here.
Included
- Kerta Gosa in Semarapura
- Lunch in Sidemen
Free time: Afternoon free in Sidemen
Rice terraces, weavers and Tirta Gangga
Sidemen valley walk, then Tirta Gangga and back
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Sidemen
- Drive about 1.5 h
Morning
Start with a morning walk through the valley with a local guide from the village, on the narrow dykes and paths between the terraces, while it is cool and Mount Agung is most often clear. The walk passes small family temples and the subak water channels that share water between farmers, a system recognised by UNESCO in 2012. Sidemen is also known for songket, cloth woven with gold or silver thread on hand looms, and we stop at a village workshop to watch the weavers.
Afternoon
After lunch we drive about 45 minutes to Tirta Gangga, the water palace built in the 1940s by the last king of Karangasem: pools, fountains and stepping stones laid out among gardens, where you can walk across the water past carved statues.
Evening
We are back in Sidemen by late afternoon, with the evening free.
Included
- Guided walk through the Sidemen valley with a local guide
- Songket weaving workshop visit
- Lunch in Sidemen
- Tirta Gangga water palace
Easier option: A shorter, flat loop through the fields close to the village, about 1 hour, in place of the full walk.
More active option: A longer walk up the side of the valley for the view over the terraces to Mount Agung, about 3 hours.
Free time: Evening free
Activity: The valley walk is about 2 hours on uneven paths and narrow dykes, which can be muddy after rain.
Salt makers and the sea at Sanur
Sidemen to Kusamba and Goa Lawah, then Sanur
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Sanur
- Drive about 2 h
Morning
We leave Sidemen mid-morning and drive down to the coast at Kusamba, where families still make sea salt by hand on the black-sand beach, spreading sea water over the sand to dry, then filtering and evaporating the brine in hollowed palm trunks. Close by, Goa Lawah is a temple built at the mouth of a cave full of fruit bats. From there it is about an hour along the coast road to Sanur, about two hours of driving in all. Sanur was one of Bali's first beach resorts and is still one of its calmest, with a reef that keeps the water flat and a paved path that runs for several kilometres along the shore past jukung outrigger boats and small temples.
Afternoon
After lunch the afternoon is free to swim, walk the path or rest.
Evening
In the evening we meet for a farewell dinner together. Sanur is about half an hour from the airport, so tomorrow's departure is easy.
Included
- Traditional salt makers at Kusamba
- Goa Lawah temple
- Lunch in Sanur
- Farewell dinner
Free time: Afternoon free in Sanur
Sunrise in Sanur and home
Sanur to I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport
- Breakfast
Morning
Sanur faces east, so the last morning can start with sunrise over the sea from the beach path, with the outline of Nusa Penida across the water and the fishermen pushing their jukung out through the shallows. Your guide walks the shore with anyone who wants to go. Breakfast at the hotel, then the morning is free until your transfer.
Evening
If your flight leaves in the evening, keep the room for a late checkout, where the hotel can offer it, or spend the day on the beach and in the cafés on the path; we can hold your luggage. We drive you to I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS), about 30 to 45 minutes away depending on traffic, in good time for your flight. Your guide checks your flight before saying goodbye. Book a flight from about midday onwards so the last morning is not rushed.
Included
- Optional sunrise walk on the Sanur beach path with your guide
- Drop-off at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)
Free time: Morning free
Activity: Book a flight leaving from about midday onwards.
- Jakarta1 night
- Yogyakarta3 nights
- Bromo (Cemoro Lawang)2 nights
- Pemuteran1 night
- Ubud3 nights
- Sidemen2 nights
- Sanur1 night
- Overnight stop
- Day trip
- By boat or train
Wildlife and weather: April to October is the dry season, with clear mornings at Borobudur and Bromo and the Ramayana Ballet on its open-air stage. From November to March afternoon storms are common, sunrise views are more often clouded, and the ballet moves indoors. Bromo's caldera rim is cold before dawn all year.
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Before you book
Right for you?
Good for you if you want
- First-time visitors who want Java's great temples and Bromo as well as Bali
- Travellers who prefer trains and a ferry to domestic flights and long van days
- People happy with two or three early starts in return for sunrise at Borobudur and Bromo
- Solo travellers who want a small group and a guide from start to finish
Not for you if you want
- A beach holiday: there is one night by the sea at the end
- Travellers who cannot manage steps; Borobudur, Bromo and Gunung Kawi all involve flights of steps
- Anyone set on Ijen's blue fire, the Gili Islands or Komodo, which this route does not include
- Travellers who want to sleep in every morning
Book flights after we confirm your seat.
13 nights
Where you'll stay
Your hotels are named in your trip confirmation.
- Jakarta1 night
- Yogyakarta3 nights
- Bromo (Cemoro Lawang)2 nights
- Pemuteran1 night
- Ubud3 nights
- Sidemen2 nights
- Sanur1 night
One price
What's in the price
Included
Accommodation
- 13 nights: 1 in Jakarta, 3 in Yogyakarta, 2 at Cemoro Lawang on the Bromo caldera rim, 1 in Pemuteran, 3 in Ubud, 2 in Sidemen and 1 in Sanur
- Central hotels and lodges of a 3-star-plus standard with private bathrooms; we name each hotel when we confirm your dates
- Rooms shared, or your own for a supplement
Transport
- Pick-up at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK) and drop-off at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)
- A private air-conditioned vehicle and driver for the group in Java and in Bali
- Executive-class trains from Jakarta to Yogyakarta and from Yogyakarta to Surabaya, and the train from Probolinggo to Banyuwangi
- Jeeps at Bromo
- The car ferry from Ketapang to Gilimanuk
Your guide
- A See Sight Tours guide with the group from day 1 to day 14
- Local guides at Borobudur, Prambanan, the Kraton and in the Sidemen valley, and Tengger jeep drivers at Bromo
Activities
- Jakarta: Kota Tua and Sunda Kelapa harbour
- Yogyakarta: street food walk, the Kraton and Taman Sari
- Sunrise from Punthuk Setumbu and Borobudur, with a timed ticket onto the monument where available, plus Mendut and Pawon
- Prambanan and the Ramayana Ballet
- Bromo: sunrise viewpoint by jeep, the Sea of Sand and the crater rim when open
- Pemuteran: snorkelling gear for a swim off the beach
- Munduk and Pura Ulun Danu Beratan
- Ubud: Campuhan Ridge, Ubud Palace and market, a Legong or Barong dance performance
- Tirta Empul and Gunung Kawi
- Kerta Gosa in Semarapura
- Sidemen valley walk, a songket weaving workshop and Tirta Gangga
- Kusamba salt makers and Goa Lawah
- All entrance fees for included sights, and the Bali tourist levy
Meals
- 13 breakfasts
- 12 lunches, including a meal on the Jakarta to Yogyakarta train
- 7 dinners: the welcome dinner, the Yogyakarta street food walk, dinner before the Ramayana Ballet, two at Bromo, one in Pemuteran and a farewell dinner in Sanur
Not included
- International flights to Jakarta and from Bali
- Indonesian visa on arrival or e-VOA
- Travel insurance
- Meals not listed above
- Drinks
- Tips for guides, drivers and local guides
- Optional activities, such as the Mount Batur sunrise hike
- Personal expenses, massages and laundry
Extras
- Room of your own
- CAD 615 (estimated price)
When you can go
Dates and prices
Pick your start date when you request to book. We check that date and confirm it in your quote.
Prefer to travel without a group or guide? Ask us about arranging hotels, transport and city tours for you to travel independently.
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Booking terms
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Questions
Prices in these answers apply from Dec 2, 2026. Black Friday offer: 5% off the small-group price for requests received by Dec 1, 2026. From CAD 3,450 per person. From Dec 2, 2026: from CAD 3,630.
What does the price include?
Thirteen nights in 3-star-plus hotels and lodges, 13 breakfasts, 12 lunches and 7 dinners, airport transfers, a private vehicle and driver, three train journeys, the Bali ferry, Bromo jeeps, your See Sight Tours guide throughout, local guides, every visit in the day plan with its entrance fee, the Ramayana Ballet, a Balinese dance and the Bali tourist levy.
How big is the group?
The small-group trip runs with 7 to 12 guests, so the group fits in one vehicle, one train carriage and around one table at dinner, and everyone can hear the guide at Borobudur.
Who leads the trip?
A See Sight Tours guide travels with the group from the welcome dinner in Jakarta to the airport in Bali. Licensed local guides join at Borobudur, Prambanan, the Kraton and in the Sidemen valley, and Tengger drivers take the jeeps at Bromo. We name your guide when we confirm your dates.
How fit do I need to be?
Moderate. Expect early starts, about 250 steps to Bromo's crater rim at about 2,330 m, about 300 steps each way at Gunung Kawi and a two-hour valley walk in Sidemen. Each has an easier option: stay with the jeep at Bromo, wait at the top at Gunung Kawi, or take the short loop in Sidemen.
Is there a single supplement for solo travellers?
Yes. A room of your own is from CAD 615 more, shown before you book with no surprises later. Solo travellers join the same group, at the same tables and on the same terms as everyone else; if you would like to share a room, ask us and we will tell you whether a match is possible on your departure.
When is the best time to go?
April to October, the dry season, when sunrise at Borobudur and Bromo is most often clear and the Ramayana Ballet is danced on its open-air stage. November to March brings afternoon storms and more cloud at sunrise, and the ballet moves indoors.
Why two nights at Bromo?
With one night you arrive late, rise at 3:30 am and leave straight after. Two nights give you an evening on the rim, sunrise over Bromo, a slow afternoon to rest and, if cloud hides the first sunrise, an optional early walk to the rim at about 5 am for a second look before the morning train.
Can we add the Ijen crater?
Not on the small-group dates. Ijen needs a night near Banyuwangi and a start around 1 am, which would add a third night-time start in four days. We can add it to a private trip with an extra night, or quote it as an add-on after your small-group trip.
Why the train and ferry instead of flying to Bali?
The train and the ferry turn the crossing into part of the trip: a window on East Java, the Bali Strait, a night on the quiet north-west coast and the highland road through Munduk to Ubud. Flying saves a little time but means two airports and Bali's busy south.
Do I need a visa for Indonesia?
Most visitors, including Canadians, need a visa on arrival or an e-VOA bought online before travel, valid for 30 days, with a passport valid for at least six months. We send the current fee and steps with your booking confirmation. We pay the Bali tourist levy for you.
Can we travel privately or on our own dates?
Yes. Besides the small group, the trip comes as a private trip for your party only, on a date you choose. If you would rather travel independently, ask us from the dates section and we will quote the same hotels, trains, drivers and local guides for your dates.
How does booking work?
Choose a start date and send a request to book. We confirm your place within 24 hours, and no payment is taken until then. Prices are per person sharing a room, with taxes: the small group starts from CAD 3,630.
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