coming to bali

Your journey to Bali starts with a good ticket agent, that finds you a budget price ticket - even in a high season. For Europe, we recommend email: info@forumreisen.deOn arrival in Bali, we pick you up from the airport. In case you want to look around Bali before or after the tour, we take you on day tours and provide you with selected accommodations in Balinese style Bungalow-Hotels and in private Villas.
Bali Travel Information
Entrance:Passport with a validity of at least 6 month from time of entry, and at least one empty page for stamping is required. Children need their own passport.Visa:on arrival you get a tourist Visa, valid for 2 months in Indonesia. Not extendable. If you want to stay longer than 2 months, you have to get yourself a visa for Indonesia at an Indonesian embassy (outside of Indonesia).Money:The currency of Indonesia is the Rupiah, being a floating currency. Currently the rate for 1 US $ is roughly Rp 8.800.-, for 1 EURO about Rp 9500.-. The most common credit cards are Visa, MasterCard and Maestro. All are accepted in all bigger banks and can be used at the numerous ATM machines. Best you bring some cash (US $ get a good rate) and parts in traveler checks.Temperature:Bali is blessed with an all year round temperature of 27 to 31 degrees Celsius. On the mountains it can drop at night to 18 degrees. There is a "rainy season", from middle of December to middle of March. But depending on the area of Bali, you get only tropical downpours that last for half an hour. Mornings are rather sunny, afternoons cloudy. Except these showers you will find a sunny and warm weather all year round in Bali. Mosquito's you find in the coastal areas generally mostly at dusk, inland a bit more. Best protection is a mosquito net while sleeping, at dusk using a skin protection or make use of the widely available mosquito coils. Mosquito's don't enjoy flying in the breeze of a fan.Clothes:Light airy clothes, best made of natural materials, a pullover for the sometime quite chilly mountain regions – but remember - not too much. Hardly anyone can resist the temptation of bargain clothes here, be it colorful Batik from the local markets, stylish designer clothes from the shops in Kuta, or custom-made clothes by local tailors.Luggage:Generally also here – not too much! On Bali there is an abundance of inexpensive product options. The availability of attractive art and gift items at affordable prices is so extensive, that you will surely depart with more luggage than you brought.Children:Bali is probably one of the most children friendly countries of all. The attention and care of children tends to be a collective community concern, which is not left entirely to the parents and will indeed apply to the children of the “orang putih“. Moreover the local people, male or female alike, have a knack of dealing happily with children. There are many examples of the screaming baby, unable to be calmed by it's own parents, transforming into a bundle of smiles and happy sounds, merely by being picked up and held by a Balinese person.Doctors, medicine and health:There is a widespread medical care in Bali, public hospitals, private clinics and private practices. There are ambulances and emergency stations. In Singaraja, with a population of roughly 30.000 people, there are 6 hospitals. There are also reasonably well equipped pharmacies all around.Electricity:The voltage is 220. Adapters are widely available.Etiquette:Here the first rule is – Smile. This is a universal way of communication, or at least an icebreaker. Should something not be to your satisfaction, it makes no sense to start raising your voice and getting excited. With such behavior you will lose face. Either people could turn their back on you amused, or they could become annoyed or even worse, afraid of you.

Singaraja is the former capital of Bali, and a typical Indonesian city: many temples, wide roads, lots of greenery, no skyscrapers and very little tourism. You can find in Singaraja hospitals, private clinics, an University, banks (with pin code ATM machines), libraries, restaurants, a big market and many shops.
About us: Our company is a cooperation of Swiss management, Balinese insider knowledge, German guidance, and local handling. We try our best to make your Bali Nature Tour an experience that takes you to the roots of Balinese culture and nature.

Bali Nature Tours

About Bali - an ancient world
Bali – one of thousands of South East Asian islands, between Singapore and Australia, or, if you wish to include the Pacific Ocean –to the west coast of South America. A relatively small island (5500 square meter, or 120 by 80 km), but known worldwide. What is her uniqueness? What her exceptional status within a tight organized Republic of Indonesia, with its 30 000 islands? Already as soon as 1920, this small island has been regularly visited by “tourists”, artists and noblesse, ethnologists and adventurers of the “rolling twenties”. Some of them arrived in white linen with tropic helms and wooden suitcases – and stayed on, living in small villages, wearing Sarong and Sandals for the rest of their life. Bali, as seen from the perspective of travel magazines and catalogs, is “a beautiful, peaceful, smiling island of the gods”. And there is something to it: you can see people smile (at you), worship their gods amidst the beautiful lush, tropical scenery on a daily base. And, there is more to the island then picturesque rice terraces. Bali has a way to integrate the dark side, the demons, the social conflicts and individual aggressions in the open, in daily life. The traditions lift these often split off issues into collective consciousness, by means of arts. That gives Bali her unique touch. This one out off 27 provinces is a Hindu culture. Amidst 26 provinces of mainly Moslems, and mixtures of Christian, Animistic and Islam cultures, Bali keeps a Hindu culture alive, with all its rituals and ceremonies, that enter daily life.
Far away from being that soft, ever smiling beautiful flower girl, that you see on posters at your local travel agent (that, by the way, has been promoting Bali already in the 1930, which in return stigmatized Bali), Bali’s people have been a rough folk. Rough amongst themselves, in endless local wars with clubs and “Kris”, the traditional stagger, and rough on invaders, like the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Japanese.
But their human roughness and aggressions are channeled into the sacred ceremonies with dances that include fights for the good, in music and painting, and into wood carvings, that show demons and hungry spirits, far away from the topless flower girl of the old time pictures

Bali’s NATURE is an exceptional big variety of climates, sceneries, flora within one island. Along Bali’s length, from west to east, draws a chain of volcanic mountains, that sustain Bali from the ocean floor. On these mountain slopes is where Bali lives. Generation after generation has carved and dug out from the slanted ground a watering system, that gives life to thousands of rice terraces and fruit trees, and has developed into a sophisticated irrigation system, collectively used, called “Subak”. With no one owner, but the whole social group of one area, making use of the constant flow of water through countless channels and ditches, on its way to the salty ocean. The highest level from 2500 to 1500 m above sea level, is partly alpine, with conifer trees, pines, oaks, bamboo groves, and is used for its grass and wood. Part of these forests is original rain forest, never cut, never planted. The next level around 1000 m above sea is used for extensive agricultural gardening, such as vegetables, flowers (for the always present temple ceremonies), and animal farming (chicken and cows). Some areas, particularly on the mountain slopes towards the north coast, this level is densely forested with clove trees, coffee and cacao plantations, fruit trees, such as Mango, Rambutan (lychees) , Avocado, Durian, Mangosteen, Jackfruit, Mandarines and Limes. Below 500 m above sea level we find mainly paddies. Water irrigated rice fields. And near the coast there is a belt of coconut trees, all the way down to the beaches.
A day tour around Bali could take you through all these levels two or three times. There are several passes, that cut from south to north through the volcanic chain, and open up a splendid view of either the northern “Bali Sea”, or the southern sea with two islands in sight: Nusa Penida and Lembongan. Beaches in Bali are not that great. Or, let’s say, not according to the concept of a South Pacific island with white sand and turquoise waters. Most of the beaches consist of grinded down lava from the rocks and pebble that water brings down from the mountains. Lava is black. That makes the beaches sand grayish brown to black. Except a few beaches in the south, near Kuta and Sanur, where the sand stems from grinded down corals, most of Bali’s beaches are dark pebbles or sand. Once you let go off the image of a white sand beach, you start to enjoy the many trees along the shore, the clear waters, and the tranquil ocean in the north, that allows non swimmers (or children) to play at the beach without any danger of under currents or sudden drops. The ocean swells that hit Bali from the south, have traveled a long way: from a vast open ocean that has no land in between Bali and the south pole. Similar to Hawaii, Bali is “out in the open”, hence it gets vast breakers and long lines of waves, highly appreciated by surfers. Since surfers aren’t looking for beaches, but for “pipes” and “rip curls”, that geological condition has turned Bali, among other issues, into a surfer’s paradise. Kuta (and Legian) have raised from a sleepy fishermen’s hut compound to a busy Hotel and nightlife domain, with an international amusement clientele. As soon as you get out off the agglomeration “Denpasar” (that also have not been more than a “pasar”, meaning market, some decades ago), you are – in nature. From the rice farmer to the fishermen, craftsmen and mountain people, you will encounter natural rural life styles, and outstanding natural sceneries. Bali Nature Tours takes you into the depth of this rich nature and its people, right into the ‘SPIRIT OF BALI”.

About us:
Our company is a cooperation of Swiss management, Balinese insider knowledge, German guidance and local handling. We try our best to make your Bali Nature Tour an experience that takes you to the roots of Balinese culture and nature.
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Travel to Bali, naturally.....

We invite you to come with us on a tour that will show you a Bali which is full with nature and natural, traditional Asian life. We will show you the culture, the beauty and traditions of this special tropical island. Our tour, with educated guides, will take you to villages that resemble life like it was many years ago, rice fields, plantations, rain forests, beautiful lakes, and volcanoes. You will see old jungle trials, sacred temples, gamelan and Balinese dance performances, and the youth of Bali practicing their local arts.
Take a look with us at the coral reefs of Bali, with their rich colors and diversity of sea life. We will take you to a Spa, where Balinese girls will pamper your mind and body with a full body massage and scrub.
See natural (hot water) springs and waterfalls. Enjoy some of the more “modern” nightlife in Lovina, famous for its dolphin watching trips. During our tour we will accommodate you in selected bungalows, with quality restaurants. There will be both western and Asian food. Our Tour Staff is educated and motivated to make this tour around Bali one you will never forget, and will show you that Bali’s rich cultural heritage is visible everywhere - in many temples and palaces, in many colorful festivals and ceremonies, in drama, music, and dance, and specially, the friendly Balinese people.



Diving / snorkeling
nightlife -life music
wellness / spa- treatments
meditation
Bali dance and music
traditional village-dinner
Balinese healer and shamans
Jungle trails
Dolphin safari
FIVE DAYS inclusive price : EURO 470.-
TEN DAYS inclusive price : EURO 920,-
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