Activities in Bali
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Bali Reef Cruise and Lembongan Island Day Trip
8 hours (Departs Bali, Indonesia)
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Cruise in air-conditioned comfort and style aboard the 'Bali Hai II', travel across the Badung Strait to Lembongan Island, a small and low, protected island…Not LP reviewed
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Zen Spa
Offers a 90-minute mandi lulur (Javanese body scrub) and a spice bath (160,000Rp).
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Yuliati House
The musical family that lives here offers lessons in Balinese dance and gamelan by several generations. If you stay with them, the cost is small.
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Wayan Pasek Sucipta
Learn the gamelan and bamboo drums from a master (80,000Rp for one hour).
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Waka Land Cruise
Luxurious tours deep into rice terraces and tiny villages.
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Volcano Breeze
Located in the cafe of the same name; offers many treks.
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Taman Harum Cottages
In the centre of Bali's woodcarving district, this hotel offers a palette of craft, culture, carving and painting courses. You can learn how to make the temple offerings found just about everywhere.
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Suta Tours
Standard tours but also arranges trips to cremation ceremonies and special temple festivals, market tours and other custom plans.
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Surf Goddess
Surf holidays for women that include lessons and lodging in a posh guesthouse in Seminyak.
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Surf Beaches
Sanur's fickle breaks(tide conditions often don't produce waves) are offshore along the reef. The best area is called Sanur Reef, a right break in front of the Inna Grand Bali Beach Hotel. Another good spot is known as the Hyatt Reef, in front of, you guessed it, the Bali Hyatt. You can get a fishing boat out to the breaks for 200,000Rp per hour.
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Studio Perak
Specialises in Balinese-style silversmithing courses. A three-hour lesson, where you'll make a finished piece, costs from 200,000Rp.
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Seminyak Language School
Popular with visitors, it is conveniently located down a footpath near the Bintang Supermarket.
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Sanur Beach
In keeping with the local demeanour, the white-sand beach is sheltered by a reef and the surf is sedate. At low tide the beach is wide, but the sea is shallow and you have to pick your way out over rocks and coral through knee-deep water. At high tide the swimming is fine, but the beach is narrow and almost nonexistent in places. The hulking Inna Grand Bali Beach Hotel, located at the northern end of the strip, fronts the best stretch of beach.
Just south of Jl Kesumasari, there are simple warung that rent out loungers for 10,000Rp and battered kayaks for 20,000Rp.
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Pondok Pecak Library & Learning Centre
On the far side of the football field, this centre offers painting, dance, music, language and mask-carving classes; some are geared to kids. One-hour sessions cost from 75,000Rp. Good resource centre for other courses offered locally.
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Nur Salon
In a traditional Balinese compound filled with labelled medicinal plants; offers a long menu of straightforward spa and salon services, including a Javanese massage that takes two hours (300,000Rp).
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Museum Puri Lukisan
The Museum of Fine Arts displays fine examples of all schools of Balinese art. Just look at the lush composition of Balinese Market by Anak Agung Gde Sobrat to see the vibrancy of local painting.
It was in Ubud that the modern Balinese art movement started, when artists first began to abandon purely religious themes and court subjects for scenes of everyday life. Rudolf Bonnet was part of the Pita Maha artists' cooperative, and together with Cokorda Gede Agung Sukawati (a prince of Ubud's royal family) and Walter Spies they helped to establish a permanent collection.
Building I, straight ahead as you enter, has a collection of early works from Ubud and the surrounding…
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Kenko Reflexology
After a day trekking the beautiful Ubud countryside and listening to all those barking dogs, your own dogs may also be barking. Sessions start with gentle foot cleansing and only get better.
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JED
Organises highly regarded tours of small villages. Often needs volunteers to improve its services and work with the villagers.
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HPPGB
The HPPGB has a monopoly on guided climbs up Gunung Batur. It requires that all trekking agencies that operate on the mountain hire at least one of its guides for trips up the mountain. In addition, the cartel has developed a reputation for intimidation in requiring climbers to use its guides and during negotiations for its services.
Reported tactics have ranged from dire warnings given to people who inquired at its offices to threats against people attempting to climb without a guide. That said, many people use the services of HPPGB guides without incident, and some of the guides win plaudits from visitors for their ideas in customising trips.
The following strategies…
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Hotel Segara
Popular with larger groups.
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Hotel Miranda
Will take solo climbers; the owner Made Senter is a gem.
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Dhyana Putri Adventures
A bi-cultural, tri- lingual couple offer custom cultural tours, with emphasis on Balinese performing arts.
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Celebrity Cycling Tour
Downhill tours from Penelokan take small roads south through lush scenery.
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Casa Luna Cooking School
There are regular cooking courses at Honeymoon Guesthouse. Half-day courses (300,000Rp) are held six days per week and cover ingredients, cooking techniques and the cultural background of the Balinese kitchen (not all visit the market). Sunday tours cover sea-salt and palm-sugar production (350,000Rp) in East Bali.
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Bumbu Bali Cooking School
Balinese cooking course (250,000Rp) starts at the produce market (9am) and ends with lunch (2pm). Wide list of dishes prepared.
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Banyan Tree Cycling
Has day-long tours of remote villages in the hills above Ubud. It's locally owned, and the tours (from 450,000Rp) emphasise interaction with villagers. Very popular.
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