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Experience Local Life Tour in Traditional Balinese Village

7 Hours Round trip from Pickup service provided in Mengwi. Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Experience daily life in a traditional Balinese village
  • 02 Visit a local elementary school on school days
  • 03 Explore a traditional Balinese house and family temple
  • 04 Walk through rice fields and learn about local farming
  • 05 Join hands-on village activities like seed planting and rice farming
  • 06 Try making offerings, satay, coffee, and traditional snacks
  • 07 Enjoy coconut water, tea, coffee, and Balinese snacks
  • 08 Finish with a local Balinese lunch and farewell dance

Step into everyday life in a traditional Balinese village on this immersive 7-hour cultural experience. Meet local residents, learn about village customs, visit a traditional Balinese house and family temple, and enjoy the peaceful rural atmosphere as you walk through the rice fields.

Along the way, take part in hands-on activities that bring local traditions to life, from seed planting and rice farming to making offerings, traditional snacks, satay, and coffee. The experience ends with a local Balinese set-menu lunch and a farewell dance, offering a warm and memorable glimpse into village life.

Step into everyday life in a traditional Balinese village on this immersive 7-hour cultural experience.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 7 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Included
Transport Included
Wheelchair access Not applicable
Languages English, Indonesian, Malay

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

Visiting Elementary school

Visiting the elementary school in this village, this visit is only valid on the day of school entry. During holidays there are no visiting activities. This unformal visiting is allowed by the school management and helps students to improve their language skills and also courage in social activities. Please get to know more about system school education in this village and their adorable radiant faces.

Visiting Banjar

When you arrive at this village, you will be greeted with a traditional Balinese dance, which uses a saroong or kamen and you can take apart to participate in this short visit.

Traditional Balinese House Structure

The participants will be taken to a traditional Balinese house to get to know more about the structure of the building, the layout of the building and the function of each part of the building. Then they will be introduced to the prayer area, namely the family temple located in the yard of the house. Those who are interested will be given a garland of flowers along with good wishes from the owner of the house.

Walking Rice Field

Get to know the village life by walking around while enjoying the scenery and rural atmosphere, followed by a short trekking through the rice fields. In this rice field you will be introduced how to grow crops starting from planting rice seeds, fertilizing, harvest time and how to cultivate the soil again for replanting, on this occasion you can also interact with farmers and mingle with them in between their busy works.

Creating Traditional Food (Culinary)

After half the activity done, the participants gathered at a local house to rest while drinking coconut water. In the kitchen there are several activities such as making canang or offering flowers, seeing the processing of making virgin coconut oil, grinding coffee beans,there is also making satay, making traditional snacks (klepon) that you will not find in your country. Please take this part and participate directly, and the results you make can be eaten or used yourself.

Farming Rice

You will to introduced to farming rice. Get to know the rice fields, how to hoe, plant rice seeds and other technical made you get insight from direct local farmer. Its a nice experience and exciting to plow the fields in the middle of the countryside far from the crowds of the city. Of course your body will be dirty with mud and wet soil. The rice harvest occurs 3 times a year and for many years the local people have worked as farmers. Farming is livelihood to fill their daily needs. Get gain useful knowledge and valuable experience from this farming activity

Lunch at Local Resident House

Activities that are quite exciting and memorable will make you remember when you return to your country. Local Balinese lunch served as a set menu. While having lunch you will be treated to a short local dance as a goodbye and a sign that the activities in the village have ended.

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Entry/admission to activites Taman Anyar Village
  • Saroong Bali and hat farmer
  • Seed planting
  • Local Dance
  • Local set menu Balinese
  • Coconut water fruit/tea/coffee/bali snack
  • Experienced Guide in village
  • Hotel pick up and Drop off

What's Not Included

  • Gratuity

Know before you go

  • Activities is Daily Bali life in the village
  • Activities for small group
  • Visiting elementary school only on school schedule day

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Pickup service provided in Mengwi.
Tour start
Pickup service provided in Mengwi.
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 7 hours finish where they began, in Pickup service provided in Mengwi..

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