Volcano Tours in Bali: Mount Batur and Mount Agung
56 listings on two volcanoes, from a 500 m walk before dawn to a 1,500 m night climb. Either way the pickup is between 01:30 and 02:30.
Bali sells volcanoes in the middle of the night. Every product on this page, apart from a handful of daytime jeep runs, starts with a driver at your hotel between half past one and half past two in the morning, because the thing being sold is the twenty minutes after first light and the mountain is two to three hours from the beach hotels. That single fact explains the prices, the reviews and most of the complaints. The island has two volcanoes worth the drive, and they are nothing like each other.
This page compares the two mountains and the five ways they are sold. The operational detail sits one level down: what time each group leaves, what is included, which route reaches the real summit and which stops short of it.
Worth knowing before you read anything else. Of the nine listings attached to this page rather than to one of the groups below, eight never go up a volcano at all. Six are Ubud day trips where Kintamani is a lunch stop with a view across the caldera, and two are downhill cycling routes that begin near the rim and coast away from it. They are good days out. They are not volcano trips, and they are sold with the word volcano in the title.
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Sunrise Trekking
The Mount Batur sunrise trek: a two-hour climb in the dark to reach the summit as the light comes up over Lake Batur.
12 experiences -
Jeep Sunrise
Mount Batur by jeep at dawn: the same sunrise as the trek, driven instead of climbed.
12 experiences -
Jeep Tours
Batur by 4x4 outside the sunrise slot: the caldera floor, the lava field and Kintamani.
10 experiences -
Mount Agung Summit
Mount Agung, Bali's highest and most sacred volcano at 3,142 m: a night climb from Pura Pasar Agung or Besakih.
7 experiences -
Black Lava Field
The black lava field left by Batur's 1968 eruption, crossed on foot or by jeep.
6 experiences
Volcano Travel Experiences in Bali
Private Batur Jeep Sunrise, with the Geology Explained on the Way Up
The jeep is custom-built for this ground and the guide covers the geology on the way up, with hot springs, rafting, the swing or the terraces as add-ons.
Private Batur Sunrise Trek at Your Own Pace, with Flexible Pick-Up
One guide for your group alone, so the pace is set by whoever walks slowest, with flexible pick-up across Bali and a breakfast steamed over the vents.
Private Batur Sunrise Trek from Ubud Palace, with a Coffee Plantation After
The hot spring is not in the price and the north-coast hotels meet at Ubud Palace, but the climb needs only moderate fitness and ends at a coffee plantation.
Private Ubud Day: Tegalalang, the Jungle Swing, Sebatu's Koi Temple and Batur
Five stops with a private driver, including the koi ponds of Gunung Kawi Sebatu, a buffet lunch facing Mount Batur and its lake, and Tegenungan waterfall.
Private Ubud Day Trip: Monkey Forest, Tegalalang, Batur Lunch and Tirta Empul
A private car for six stops: 700-odd monkeys in the sanctuary, the palace opposite the market, buffet lunch facing Batur, and the blessing pools of Tirta Empul.
Tegenungan Waterfall, Tirta Empul and Puri Saren Agung, Private
Concrete steps and a handrail run the whole way down to Tegenungan, and the day finishes at the Ubud art market and Puri Saren Agung, the royal palace.
Ubud in a Day: Tirta Empul from 960 AD, Tegalalang's Eighth-Century Terraces
Tirta Empul dates from 960 AD and the Tegalalang terraces from the eighth century, with lunch facing a crater about 13 square kilometres across.
Ubud, Which Means Medicine: the Barong, 24 Eruptions and 605 Macaques
Batur has erupted about 24 times since 1800, and each time the villages below moved a temple and rebuilt. The day opens with the Barong dance.
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