The best way to explore Kalimantan's Tanjung Puting National Park is to travel along the Sekonyer River. While a fleet of small klotok boats operates daily sightseeing services into the park from the jetty at Kumai, the small port town conn…

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The highest peak on either Bali or Lombok is Gunung Rinjani (3,726m/12,224ft), a smouldering cone of volcanic rock and sand with a huge, blue-green lake in its summit caldera. You can trek to the rim in 6–7 hours for a peek inside the vast,…

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The most easily identifiable form of Balinese music is gamelan, in which orchestras of 25 or more men, sitting cross-legged on the ground, play a bewildering combination of bronze percussion instruments: bells, gongs, cymbals and chiming ba…

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Kalimantan’s star attraction, the beguiling, copper-haired Orang-utan, can be seen close up at several rescue centres. Habitat destruction due to mining, logging and forest fires have decimated populations of Borneo’s famous ginger ape – th…

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For a quarter of a century, the Bali-based Sea Trek company have been running small vessel cruises to remote corners of the Indonesian archipelago, offering unique experiences of regions otherwise unknown to foreign tourism. Their knowledge…

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Bali is an especially rewarding destination for keen walkers, with wonderful hiking trails threading through the villages, rice terraces and palm forests of the interior to dormant volcanoes with summits trailing plumes of mist and cloud. …

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