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.
Suggested tours to Indonesia
Discover Indonesia
17 days from £3980 per person
Experience the highlights of Indonesia’s three most popular islands, from ancient Buddhist Borobudur to the Sumatran rainforest and Bali’s heavenly coastline, on this 17-day trip.…
Wild Indonesia
19 days from £6495 per person
Take a walk on Indonesia’s wild side to see endangered orangutans, Komodo dragons, proboscis monkeys and other amazing jungle creatures across a string of exotic,…
A Honeymoon in Indonesia
20 days from £4200 per person
With its fabulously exotic monuments, teeming jungles and exquisite beaches, Indonesia has to be one of the world’s ultimate honeymoon destinations. Thanks to the abundance…
Luxury Bali Adventure Holiday
18 days from £2990 per person
Sample the numerous and varied charms of Bali in this active 18-day trip, which features some light trekking, cycling, dolphin watching, canoeing and white-water rafting,…
Java and Bali Overland
15 days from £2795 per person
Experience the scenic and cultural highlights of Java and Bali on this superb two-week road adventure. Winding from Jakarta across the island’s volcanic spine to…
Java and Bali Explorer
15 days from £3470 per person
This tour gives you an ideal mix of culture, monuments, nature and beach relaxation in Java and Bali. Starting in Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya,…
Java In Depth
14 days from £2565 per person
Get an ideal mix of culture, activity, nature and beach relaxation on our Java In Depth tour. Starting in Yogyakarta, home to Indonesia’s premier cultural…
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Indonesia Places and Experiences
Java
Thanks to its fertile volcanic soil and plentiful rainfall, Java is the most populous island in the Indonesian archipelago. The nation’s sprawling capital, Jakarta, lies on its north coast, but the undisputed cultural hub is Yogyakarta, whe…
Borobudur
Borobudur encapsulates everything that’s most exotic about Java. Come before dawn and you can watch the first rays of daylight illuminate the faces of 1200-year-old stone Buddhas gazing west over a plateau of lush rice fields and palm grove…
Tanjung Puting National Park
Covering 4,000 sq km of tropical heath and swamp forest on a low-lying peninsula jutting into the Java Sea, Tanjung Puting is Kalimantan’s premier nature reserve. The reason for its great popularity is its 1000-strong population of oranguta…
Bali
Bali, to the east of Java, has always been considered the pearl in the necklace of Indonesia’s Sunda Islands. Its mix of spellbinding volcanic scenery, glorious beaches, pounding surf, lush tropical hinterland and a vibrant local culture ro…
Ubud
Ubud is the place to stay if you’ve come to Bali hoping to experience traditional dance and ritual arts – or if you’re seriously into shopping! The town is jam-packed with absorbing little stalls, boutiques and crafts workshops where you ca…
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of Indonesia’s four biggest islands, and its most curiously shaped. Four long peninsulas, divided by yawning blue gulfs, form a sprawling, 1,000km-wide ‘K’ shape, converge on its mountainous core, where a myriad of small vil…
Komodo and Rinca Islands
The world’s largest lizard, the legendary Komodo dragon, survives on 5 islands in eastern Indonesia – the most accessible of them, Komodo itself and nearby Rinca. Both are starkly beautiful, with parched, undulating hills of bleached grass…
Raja Ampat
The Raja Ampat archipelago is a group of widely dispersed, largely deserted islands and islets off the coast of West Papua, Indonesia’s most easterly province. Incredibly remote and unspoilt, it requires considerable effort to reach, but th…
Orangutans, Kalimantan
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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