Rice terraces in Bali and how to visit

🕐 Working hours

Terraces can be seen around the clock, but it is best to choose earlier in the morning (6:00-9:00) or vice versa later in the evening (15:00-17:00). To see them in all their glory, it is better to choose sunny time, because in cloudy weather without sunlight, beautiful photos cannot be taken. The best season to visit is from April to October.

💵Entrance fee / ticket price

Some terraces can be seen for free, but tourist ones are paid, up to 500,000 rupees for admission (rate temporary unavailable/span> rub). Prices for different locations are presented below.

🚶 How to get there

In Bali, you can easily count a dozen rice terraces, and most likely even more, if you take into account all the non-tourist places. Personally, we prefer to visit everything on our own by rented transport (read more about transport and rental in Bali here). But if you don't drive yourself, then you can visit with excursions or hire a driver guide. Once again, we note that, in our opinion, it is not worth going separately only to the terraces, you need to combine a trip to other attractions. You can view our map with points of interest in Bali and upload the points to your smartphone or navigator.

As for hiring a driver, you can rent a car for about $50 for the whole day. In fact, it will be just an individual tour. Usually drivers themselves offer their services in tourist places (on beaches, parking lots near hotels, etc.), or you can contact the hotel reception and or a street travel agency. They offer ready-made routes to interesting points with a visit to rice terraces, but you can request your own route, all this is coordinated.

Inexpensive group bus tours to Bali are not very common, they are still to be found. But you can still find it, including you can try to find it online on the sites from the list below. Almost any excursion to the central part and to the north of Bali, in particular to the lake and the Batur volcano, to the hot springs, to the observation decks on the Agung volcano, to the Besakih temple come to the rice terraces.

If you rent transport yourself, then here are the most popular locations with rice terraces:

• Tegalalang or Tegallalang, or Ceking Rice Terrac (on the map). This is perhaps the most popular location, all tourists are brought here on their way to Lake Batur. There is a cafe, a swing, a zipline, you can walk around the fields. It is better to come in the morning or in the evening, as there are a lot of people during the day. Input 25 000 rupees (1.48 rub.), a photo on a swing with the rental of costumes - 200,000 rupees.
• Jatiluwih or Jatiluwih (on the map). Specifically, these terraces are included in the UNESCO list, at least that's what they say here. There is no entertainment here, but there is a cafe and several art objects for photographing, and you can walk around the fields. The entrance costs 70 000 rubles (4.45 rubles), 50,000 children.
• Belimbing or Belimbing (on the map). Little visited, because they are far from tourist routes. They are not equipped for walking, there are no photo points, there are no walking paths between the fields (but you can walk). But there is a cafe with a view directly to the fields, and everything is free.
• Sidemen or Sidemen (on the map). It is also a low-tourist place, it is convenient to stop here on the way to the Besakikh temple. There is a cafe. You can just look at the fields from the road for free, and if you want to take a walk, the entrance is 25,000 (1.48 rubles).
• Real Bali Swing (on the map). A theme park with a swing ride, photographed in artificial nests and on platforms above rice terraces. In our opinion, this is not a place for travelers, but an entertainment place for inexperienced tourists, lovers of Instagram photos, and a very overrated place where guides bring tourists, in all likelihood, to get commissions for the "head" of tourists. Imagine, the entrance with riding on a swing and short-term sitting in "nests" with inept photographing by local type photographers costs here from 500,000 rupees (rate temporary unavailable/span> rub.)!!! Therefore, if you are traveling, and did not come to take Instagram selfies, it is better to bypass this location.
• Munduk or Munduk (on the map) and Dayang or Dayang (on the map). These two fields are located next to each other in a remote and inaccessible place in the village. To get to them, you will either have to leave the transport in the village on the asphalt and then walk about half a kilometer, or drive along the dirt road through the fields, but only in good weather. The visit is free of charge.
• Sesandan or Sesandan (on the map). It is also a remote field for enthusiasts to get further and deeper. It's free, but you'll have to drive a few kilometers along the dirt road.