Bali Tours and Trips

The Bali, Flores and Komodo Islands tour is suitable for active travellers who enjoy wonderful views, nature, discovering culture, photography, swimming and good food. Our excellent guide - Anton - was always willing to stop the vehicle for us to catch a view and a picture as we passed by some stunning views. You're staying in a combination of basic and good hotels and a night and two days on a boat. (Ours had bathrooms in each cabin.) We travelled by boat between the islands of Rinca and Komodo with reasonably basic accommodation, but excellent food. This part of the trip provided ample opportunity to walk (guided by a Ranger) and see at close quarters the famous dragons. We managed to see 13 between 2m and 3m across two walks. As a diver I really enjoyed the snorkelling off the islands was very good with an excellent selection of coral, plenty of turtles and fish. There is also a chance to snorkel with Manta Rays at one of the top 3 spots in the world to see these beasts. Unfortunately, during our visit the Mantas were missing, but I did get close to perhaps a dozen Green and Hawksbill turtles. Back in Flores and Bali the fish markets sold and cooked on the spot beautiful fresh fish at a fraction of the cost you might pay in the UK. An opportunity to visit two functioning megalithic villages built from bamboo, thatch and stone was fascinating. If you like expansive views of lush green rice terraces Bali and Western Flores. Elsewhere, you'll walk through growths of vanilla, papaya, Jack fruit, Cocoa and heaven knows what else. Our guide Anton was excellent, knowledgeable, flexible and unstoppable. I'd highly recommend this trip.

the days we had to tour were brilliantly done, informative and insightful... however, recommendations, could be offered by guides for days off, choices other than being on the beach...hotels had few brochures to help us decide...and transport offered by hotels had plenty of departuretimes to a few destinations but pick up times were only at the end of a long, hot day

Highly recommended to travel with Charlie The Traveler, the attention and customer service is amazing, they adapted a trip accordong to my time and interests, always supporting me during my visit to Bali.

Thoroughly enjoyed this trip. We had a nice sized group of 10 people. Our tour leader Hadi was excellent, very friendly , organised and just an all round lovely jubbly guy! :-) Our highlights of the trip were definitely the boat trip around Rinca, Komodo & Padar Island, snorkelling at pink beach and spotting a Manta Ray. The hotels on this trip were really great and we had an upgrade on our boat meaning we all ended up with our own room with en suite, luxury ! Some long days spent travelling but well worth it for the stunning views and experiences. Thank you Explore once again for another amazing trip!

Overall and excellent trip with a diverse group of 10 travellers. We thoroughly enjoyed this tour especially the boat trip to Rinko and Komodo islands. Flores is under development and extremely rural with glorious verdant vegetation and stunning landscapes. A real ‘away from it all’ destination. Bali was very busy with dreadful traffic, however the area this tour goes to offered some tranquility from the hubbub. The boat trip exceeded expectations, was very comfortable with great friendly service. Despite being told we would have a shared multi-berth cabin, we had our own with bathrooms! To finish at the beach in Jimbaran was a great way to relax and restore our energy before the long journey home. Tip: massages are excellent and very cheap!! Highlight: Komodo dragons, snorkelling on pink beach -fabulous!

I did the 10 day Bali bliss, and I loved every minutes. There was so much to do and there was something that suited everyone from hiking to surfing. Ikrar our tour guide was perfect. He was always there and happy to help us with any recommendations for our free time. He also planned out nights to suit the group - live music nights or dancing nights. A stunning place with amazing people