Ubud Highlights: Rice Terraces, Monkey Forest and Water Temple
Overview
This full-day tour covers the classic sights of central Bali in one comfortable loop from your hotel. Your driver-guide collects you in an air-conditioned car and heads inland to Ubud, the island's cultural heart.
Start at the Ubud Monkey Forest, a sanctuary of shady paths, moss-covered temples and hundreds of long-tailed macaques. Then drive north to the Tegallalang rice terraces, where the paddies step down a green valley and you can walk down among them. After lunch with a view, continue to Tirta Empul, a water temple built around a holy spring, where Balinese Hindus bathe under the fountains to purify themselves. You can watch, or join in with a guide's help.
On the way back there is often time for Ubud's market and palace, or a stop at a coffee plantation or waterfall. The exact order depends on traffic and your pickup point, and your guide will adjust the day to suit you.
Highlights
- Walk among the macaques of the Ubud Monkey Forest
- See the Tegallalang rice terraces
- Visit the Tirta Empul holy spring temple
- Time for Ubud market and palace
- Private car with an English-speaking driver-guide
What's included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in the main resort areas
- Private air-conditioned car
- English-speaking driver-guide
- Bottled water
- Sarong for temple visits
- Entrance fees (unless an all-inclusive option is booked)
- Lunch and drinks
- Tips
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Itinerary
Frequently asked questions
The macaques are wild but used to people. Don't carry food, keep bags zipped, don't touch or feed them, and follow your guide's advice.
Light clothes that cover your shoulders and knees for the temples, comfortable shoes for the rice terraces, and swimwear or a change of clothes if you plan to bathe at Tirta Empul.
Yes. It is a private tour, so we can add a waterfall, a coffee plantation or more time in Ubud. Tell us what you would like.
