Indonesia Holidays

Ancient Buddhist ruins framed by backdrops of luminous green rice terraces and conical volcanoes trailing plumes of smoke... Dancers decked in intricate, jewel-encrusted headdresses, tracing graceful arcs in the air with long, gold fingernails and lengths of canary-coloured silk... Shoals of kaleidoscopic fish streaming through coral reefs... Vast, unexplored swathes of rainforest where Orangutans lumber through the branches.

Indonesia offers the modern traveller a nonstop parade of arrestingly exotic experiences. The trick is knowing where to find them. Scattered like an emerald necklace across the South Pacific, the country is diverse as it is vast—a chain of 17,508 islands draped over 500km of ocean between Indochina and Australia.

As an introduction to Indonesia’s intensely beautiful landscapes and traditional lifestyles, you can’t do better than three islands in the so-called Sunda Shelf – Java, Bali, and Borneo that most people will have heard of but even beyond this there are limitless opportunities for adventurous experiences, from trekking, sailing, and diving to engaging in slower, more immersive activities such as cooking, weaving, and learning the art of Batik dying, which help make any holiday to Indonesia a Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience.