BATUR SUNRISE TREKKING COMBINATION 4

Batur Sunrise Trekking Combination 4 Package is mix of volcano trekking with sightseeing at Ubud Monkey Forest followed by visiting Ubud Palace. In this package we will explore the beauty nature and cultural site with view of Volcano Mountain, Balinese Traditional Royal Family Palace, and also having interaction with the monkeys at Ubud Monkey Forest. So basically it will maximize your traveling time in Bali to get a general view of all Balinese aspects.

Batur Sunrise Trekking Combination 4 Package Itinerary will be started with hotel pick up by our Bali tour driver around 2.00 am in the very early morning because we need to reach the start point before 4.00 am. It will took about 1 hour and 30 minute drive from Denpasar area to get to the start point. Once we arrived, the professional local guide will do a short registration and introduction about the area. Stretching and warming up is necessary to avoid any fatal injuries during the activity. It will take about 1.5 – 2 hours walking up depends on how fast we are moving to reach the mountain edge from the start point.

We have to be very careful along the way due to the sharp volcano rocks spread all over the place and we are walking on the dark with flashlight in our hand. On the edge, the guide will prepare some light breakfast for us and we are going to enjoy it together with the wonderful sunrise view. Finish with the sunrise, we will going back down to the start point then having morning coffee at local farm to taste Balinese spices and also the famous Luwak Coffee as well as for the introduction of local Balinese plantation. After that we will visit Monkey Forest at Ubud center area to have interaction with the monkeys in their natural habitat and then last stop is Ubud Royal Family Palace. After all the itinerary finish, we are heading back to your Hotel.

Information of sites around the Batur Sunrise Trekking Combination 4 area:

Batur Volcano And Lake View From Kintamani Area

Kintamani is the main tourist object of the journey. It has a wonderful views of Batur Volcano Mountain and Lake from Penelokan area. Batur Volcano Mountain has wide range area off black frozen lava rocks from its previous eruption. The last eruption happened on 2000 but only a very small scale. And the biggest eruption happened on 2 August - 21 September 1926. On 2011, UNESCO choose Batur Caldera, area of black lava rocks, as one of the National Geopark. Having a banquet lunch provided by some local restaurants is a popular in this area. We will having lunch with the views of Batur Volcano Mountain and Lake.

Luwak Coffee Plantation

You can find coffee plantation all over Bali. They will give a short farm tour about our local plantation, spices products, especially famous Luwak Coffee. Luwak Coffee produced from coffee beans found inside Luwak’s poop. It is because the Luwak animal has a great sense of choosing coffee bean. And also will only eat the best quality ones. The process inside the Luwak stomach won’t damage the coffee bean but reducing the level of caffeine in the coffee. The process also change the taste of coffee produced later on. Other than Luwak coffee, you might also tasting other local spices. Such as lemongrass tea, ginger tea, mangosteen tea, Robusta coffee, Arabica coffee, and etc.

Ubud Center Area

Ubud Monkey Forest is a jungle as the living place of Balinese Long Tailed monkeys or Macaca fascicularis. Due to its popularity, the forest has more than 10,000 tourists a month. So the monkeys are familiar to have contact with people. You may buy bunch of bananas inside which the favorite food and feed the monkeys. They are ignore people who are not intend to feed them and very friendly most the time. There are several things you need to avoid with them. Such as direct eye contact, touch them, and reach their babies. It may leads them to become aggressive and dangerous.

Ubud Palace located exactly in the center of the area and there is a traditional market in front of it. The traditional market location in the past should be located near by the royal family palace. So the royal family that manage the government system in the past can control the economy activities. Nowadays in Indonesia, government system is using Presidential system. So the Royal Family is no longer taking care of the government system. But for the local people, the royal family still have power in their cultural aspect. Such as ceremony of the village, social activities, and etc. Tourists that come here can visit some parts of the palace. They come to see our unique and authentic architecture of Balinese building.