Editor Pick
Ubud Eco Bicycle Tour
- September 21, 2025
- Rated 5 of 5 by
ScarlettO from Encino, California
This is such a great tour, really one of the highlights of our trip.
In the morning, we got loaded into a van of about eight other tourists. It was an international crowd of very cool people. The lot of us were driven to a gorgeous location for breakfast.
After breakfast, we went to a traditional plantation. They grow coco, cinnamon, lemongrass, papaya, vanilla, and other things. Our guide, Agus, was a very funny, very smiley, round cheeked Balinese guy. He was a great guide with a great sense of humor. If you go, I would highly recommend trying to get this guy.
After visiting the plantation, we went to a traditional Balinese house. I thought the whole experience was great because it was actually somebody's house, not just some museum. People were just hanging out in there doing what they'd normally do and they let us just walk around and see what they were doing for the day.
A traditional Balinese house is not just one structure. It's more of a family compound with several different houses, pig sty, cow stable, work area where they weave bamboo into mats, a family temple, and a graveyard. If this is your first time in Bali, I would definitely recommend this tour as something to do on one of your first days. This particular section of the tour was so great because it really gave you some insight into the culture and family life.
After the visit to the family compound, each of us were issued a bike and a helmet that smelled like old bowling shoes. Unfortunately, bike helmets are mandatory here. We had to wipe ours down with wet wipes just to make them bearable.
The bike ride started at around the top part of the island's largest volcano so lucky for us, it was about 10 miles downhill and only about a half mile back uphill.
We went whizzing down one lane country roads, passing endless terraced rice paddies, temples and wide open countryside. There are green, terraced fields everywhere and as far as the eye can see.
One of the funnest things about the island is the island kids. They're brown, happy and cute! They all learn English in primary school and they're very enthusiastic about yelling "Hello! Hello!" and waving at you. Some of them will run up to your bike and stick out their hands to get a high five as you ride past.
After our bike ride, we were driven to a covered patio in the middle of a wide open rice field and treated to a huge buffet of traditional Balinese food. Rice with toasted garlic, roast duck, peppered and pickled sprouts, tofu in a gray and black peanut sauce, some steamed dark green leafy thing that looked like chopped up lily pads but tasted like spinach, fried noodles, etc., etc. Hands down this was one of the best meals that we had in Bali and it came with the tour!
From journal Bali Getaway