The price of the tour package is based on the participation of at least 7 participants. Entrance fees are exclusive (unless explicitly stated). Timings are subject to change. In this trip excursion package tours include the following:
Bogor - City Tour & Botanical Garden
Today you walk to the town with a guide. You'll visit the botanical garden Kebon Raya, with over 15,000 plant species. Here are the famous giant water lily, Victoria Regia and the largest flower in the world, the Rafflesia found. You make a walk led by a local guide who can tell you a lot about the different species of exotic plants and trees in the garden.
You then walk with a guide from the Bogor 'kampung' along narrow streets. You stop at a workshop where the traditional wayang puppets are made. These handmade wooden dolls are used for performances that tell the story of Ramayana. You will also visit a gong factory, where the instruments of the gamelan orchestra are made. You finish the morning with a lunch.
Excursion schedule:
8:30 am: Depart from hotel
13:30: Back at the hotel
Included: English speaking guide, entrance fees, lunch
Not included: gratuity, drinks
Bromo - Sunrise Bromo volcano
Early in the morning you'll drive in jeeps to a viewpoint, where you have a beautiful sight of the sunrise over the Bromo volcano and surrounding sea and sand. Then you drive the jeep into the crater, through sea and sand to Bromo. Here you clamber onto a horse that brings you to a long staircase. You can go to the craters' rim of Mount Bromo and see the yellow sulphur vapours rising from the center. The jeeps returns through the sea and sand to your hotel.
Excursion schedule:
04:00 am: Depart from hotel
8:00 am: Back at the hotel
Note: If the Bromo is still active the excursion may differ depending on the circumstances. Your tour guide will tell you what the alternative is.
Included: Transport by jeep, horseback ride
Not included: gratuity
Pangandaran - Prenanjun Nature & Green Canyon
You start in the morning with a walk through the Prenanjun Nature Reserve taking approximately 2 hours. Then you drive past a couple of home factories where you will see crackers, palm sugar and shadow puppets being made. Then drive to the Green Canyon, a narrow high canyon carved by the river. Here you are guided by boat. Eventually you can go swimming amongst the surrounding lush vegetation.
Excursion schedule:
8:00 am: Depart from hotel
14:00: Back at the hotel
Including the entry fee, English speaking guide, transportation, boat trip in Green Canyon
Not included: gratuity
Sengiggi - Snorkel trip to Gili Air
You go by boat to the area which the three Gili islands off the coast of Lombok lie. It is an area where the chance of spotting sea turtles is good. You will find yourself snorkelling above a coral garden with many species of colourful fish. After snorkelling you will be brought back to the hotel by boat.
Excursion schedule:
8:00 am: Departure from hotel to the boat
15:00: Back at the hotel
Included: transportation to / from the boat, English speaking guide, boat trip, snorkelling equipment
Not included: gratuity
Wonosobo - Dieng Plateau
In the early morning you drive to the cool Wonosobo Dieng plateau, at over 2000 meters in altitude. The plateau has long been a holy place. Here once stood hundreds of temples (built around the eighth century), but only a few ruins are now left. During the scenic drive up, witness daily life in the villages and the fields, before landing on the famous plateau. It is a landscape with a magical atmosphere, especially when the morning fog clears, with hissing and bubbling mud pools, crater lakes and hot springs. You can walk to temples, colourful lakes and fumaroles (vents in the crust where gases and vapours escape). At the end of the morning you'll drive back to Wonosobo.
6:30 am: Depart from hotel - 1 hour drive
07:30 am: Sightseeing Dieng temples and plateau.
9:30 am: Return to hotel
11:00: Back at the hotel and then departure to Yogyakarta
Included: transportation, entrance fees, English speaking guide
Not included: gratuity
Below is a list of locally offered excursions. The prices are based on the participation of at least 7 participants, and based on a price in Indonesian rupiahs (due to exchange rates the price can sometimes change). Timings are subject to change. Entrance fees are exclusive (unless explicitly stated).
£ 18
Bogor - City Tour & Botanical Garden
Today you walk to the town with a guide. You'll visit the botanical garden Kebon Raya, with over 15,000 plant species. Here are the famous giant water lily, Victoria Regia and the largest flower in the world, the Rafflesia found. You make a walk led by a local guide who can tell you a lot about the different species of exotic plants and trees in the garden.
You then walk with a guide from the Bogor 'kampung' along narrow streets. You stop at a workshop where the traditional wayang puppets are made. These handmade wooden dolls are used for performances that tell the story of Ramayana. You will also visit a gong factory, where the instruments of the gamelan orchestra are made. You finish the morning with a lunch.
Excursion schedule:
8:30 am: Depart from hotel
13:30: Back at the hotel
Included: English speaking guide, entrance fees, lunch
Not included: gratuity, drinks
£ 24
Bromo - Sunrise Bromo volcano
Early in the morning you'll drive in jeeps to a viewpoint, where you have a beautiful sight of the sunrise over the Bromo volcano and surrounding sea and sand. Then you drive the jeep into the crater, through sea and sand to Bromo. Here you clamber onto a horse that brings you to a long staircase. You can go to the craters' rim of Mount Bromo and see the yellow sulphur vapours rising from the center. The jeeps returns through the sea and sand to your hotel.
Excursion schedule:
04:00 am: Depart from hotel
8:00 am: Back at the hotel
Note: If the Bromo is still active the excursion may differ depending on the circumstances. Your tour guide will tell you what the alternative is.
Included: Transport by jeep, horseback ride
Not included: gratuity
£ 18
Cipanas / Garut - Papandayan volcano
Early morning drive to the still active but less visited Papandayan volcano (2622 m). This volcano had an eruption in 2002. You'll be led by a local guide on a walk to the volcano crater where you can see a green crater lake. What you see and hear is indescribable. Several holes in the ground are spraying hot steam up, there's bubbling mud and you see the yellow sulphur fumes. It is like being on a far away, different planet. At the end of the morning you'll return to Cipanas / Garut.
Excursion schedule:
07. 00 hours: Depart from hotel
12:00 hours: Arrival in Garut where the journey to Pangandaran will begin.
Including the entry fee, English speaking guide, transportation
Not included: gratuity
£ 23
Pangandaran - Prenanjun Nature & Green Canyon
You start in the morning with a walk through the Prenanjun Nature Reserve taking approximately 2 hours. Then you drive past a couple of home factories where you will see crackers, palm sugar and shadow puppets being made. Then drive to the Green Canyon, a narrow high canyon carved by the river. Here you are guided by boat. Eventually you can go swimming amongst the surrounding lush vegetation.
Excursion schedule:
8:00 am: Depart from hotel
14:00: Back at the hotel
Including the entry fee, English speaking guide, transportation, boat trip in Green Canyon
Not included: gratuity
£ 29
Sengiggi - Sasak Tour
You drive in about 1 ½ - to 2 hours to Tetebatu. You take a short walk through a forest on the slopes of the Rinjani volcano. You have a good chance to see black monkeys swinging in the trees above. At the waterfall you can take a refreshing dip into the cool water. Then we drive to the weaving village of Pringasela. You have plenty of time to view this village and the whole process of weaving. After lunch at a family home, we drive to a pottery village. The day will conclude with a show of local dances, which is also enthusiastically visited by the villagers. Note: If fewer than 13 participants, the dance is not included in the program and the price.
Excursion schedule:
7:30 am: Depart from hotel
09.30-11:00 am: Walk through the forest to the waterfall
11:30: Departure for weaving village Pringasela
12:00 pm: Lunch in Pringasela
13.00: Visit pottery village
15:00: Dance performance (only for groups of 13 persons+)
16.00: Back at the hotel
Including the entry fee, English speaking guide, lunch, transportation, (dance performance for groups of 13 persons+)
Not included: drinks, tips
£ 30
Sengiggi - Snorkel trip to Gili Air
You go by boat to the area which the three Gili islands off the coast of Lombok lie. It is an area where the chance of spotting sea turtles is good. You will find yourself snorkelling above a coral garden with many species of colourful fish. After snorkelling you will be brought back to the hotel by boat.
Excursion schedule:
8:00 am: Departure from hotel to the boat
15:00: Back at the hotel
Included: transportation to / from the boat, English speaking guide, boat trip, snorkelling equipment
Not included: gratuity
£ 12
Ubud cycling
In the morning you get on your bike and you'll ride from the hotel to a Balinese family to see how people there live. We walk through the rice fields a little, and with luck we can see how the rice is planted or harvested. Then we cycle to the small village and drive through the beautiful rice fields near Ubud back to the hotel where you arrive in the afternoon. You're on the road about three hours. Please note that there are a few steep climbs in this tour.
Excursion schedule:
9:00 am: Depart from hotel
12:00 pm: Back at the hotel
Included: bicycle, English speaking guide
Not included: gratuity
£ 19
Wonosobo - Dieng Plateau
In the early morning you drive to the cool Wonosobo Dieng plateau, at over 2000 meters in altitude. The plateau has long been a holy place. Here once stood hundreds of temples (built around the eighth century), but only a few ruins are now left. During the scenic drive up, witness daily life in the villages and the fields, before landing on the famous plateau. It is a landscape with a magical atmosphere, especially when the morning fog clears, with hissing and bubbling mud pools, crater lakes and hot springs. You can walk to temples, colourful lakes and fumaroles (vents in the crust where gases and vapours escape). At the end of the morning you'll drive back to Wonosobo.
6:30 am: Depart from hotel - 1 hour drive
07:30 am: Sightseeing Dieng temples and plateau.
9:30 am: Return to hotel
11:00: Back at the hotel and then departure to Yogyakarta
Included: transportation, entrance fees, English speaking guide
Not included: gratuity
£ 35
Yogyakarta - City Tour & Ramayana dance performance
This tour consists of two parts (morning and evening). Transport today is by becak, the popular bicycle/taxi in the city. You are driven to visit the Sultans' Palace or Kraton, accompanied by a guide who will give you a tour. Then visit a silver and a batik workshop. Of course you also look at the Water Palace. Then we will bring you to the shopping Malioboro, where you can freely walk around.
In the evening is a dinner, followed by a presentation of the Ramayana Ballet, a spectacular show with dancers in beautiful costumes.
Excursion schedule:
8:00 am: Depart from hotel
14:00: Back at the hotel
18:30 hours: Departure from hotel for dinner and dance
21:30: Back at the hotel
Included: transport by becak, entrance fees, English speaking guide, dinner, dance
Not included: gratuities, lunch, drinks