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There’s something approximately Bali that I just can’t get sufficient of, and I’m now not alone. Repeat tourists to Bali are greater common than the common bloodless – this island never receives antique!

If you’ve visited Bali solo, you likely had a chilled time consuming bloodless Bintang by the motel pool. But whilst you return with your accomplice, friends, or circle of relatives, it’s a totally extraordinary excursion.

I lately visited Bali for the seventeenth time and attempted a new revel in – travelling with young adults.

Yep, I spent per week with my niece (14) and nephew (15), and like most teens, they’d be happy to spend every week in an opulent hotel with on-call for films and a high-velocity net connection… But wherein’s the amusing in that?

Teen years are a duration of discovery. They’re essential in shaping identification with the aid of cultivating passions, likes and dislikes. So, when I took those young adults to a location with a tradition as rich as Bali, I desired them to get off the Wi-Fi and try some thing absolutely new and thrilling.

Here are my exceptional 21 activities in Bali with young adults for excursion complete of journey with a dash of Balinese culture and a dash of rest.

Bali tip: Pre-book your transport from Bali’s airport to Ubud to keep away from haggling and strain.1. Swing among the trees at Bali Treetop Adventure Park

Teens can unleash their inner Tarzan or Mowgli on the Bali Treetop Adventure Park in which you climb high into the timber to finish a series of impediment circuits. The circuits have special stages of trouble so that you can begin sluggish and paintings your way up to fear-defying zip lines, rope swings, and suspension bridges.

I attemptedmedium issue circuits earlier than tapping out and looking my niece and nephew retain to address the second hardest circuits. Sadly, the rain set in before they may try the hardest circuit however I suspect they’ll be back to conquer it.

The park (map) is over an hour force northwest from Ubud but nicely worth the journey. Turn your go to into a day trip by preventing at close by look-out points, the Ulun Danu Temple, or the Bedugul Traditional Market.

The park is open every day from nine:30am to 6pm. Buy discounted tickets earlier at Voyagin (from US$22.89) or at the door (from US$25).2. Get caged at Bali Night Safari

If you’ve ever felt like locking your teens in a cage, the Bali Night Safari is the vicinity to do it. And it’s perfectly legal. Like many zoos, you could feed animals by way of poking food through holes in a cage, however here the animals roam freely whilst human beings are those inside the cage.

The Night Safari program is cut up into three sports:

1. A taking walks tour of animals nearby to Indonesia and neighbouring international locations. A guide stocks records on each animal as you pass komodo dragons, binturongs (undergo cats), porcupines, a white tiger, an owl, and an Asian elephant.

2. A using excursion in which you may feed zebras, camels, African cows, and elephants from within a cellular cage. The spotlight of the excursion become watching our guides feed lions and tigers by means of poking meat through the cage. I had a slight drawback of being so tall when the tigers jumped on pinnacle of the cage to get fed through the roof…I ought to experience their breath centimetres from my face and that they drooled in my hair!

three. A BBQ buffet dinner observed through fireplace dance. After the tours, guests are taken to the eating place for a buffet dinner of BBQ meat, corn and veggies with facets like salads, rice, noodles advert spring rolls. The software closes with an African-inspired dance show with live drum song and props like stick puppets and fire.

Discounted Night Safari tickets should be booked at least one day in advance at Voyagin (from US$sixty six.30) or direct (from US$99).3. Hold a live chameleon

Driving through Bali’s mountains and jungle can make for a protracted day out. There are plenty of possibilities to forestall and stretch your legs along the manner at eating places or lookout points. Some locals loaf around these lookout factors with rescued Balinese animals to show to tourists.

We stopped on the Bali Strawberry Panoramic Terrace and my niece were given to hold a rescued bat, chameleon, iguana, and baby owl. Holding the animals is loose but there is a donation container which helps take care of the animals.four. Soar over a volcano in a helicopter

Up to five passengers can get a chook’s eye view of Bali’s rice terraces, jungles, lakes and volcanoes in a helicopter tour. There are numerous helipads around Bali, however we took off from Mason Elephant Lodge and flew for around half-hour.

Tip: You’ll want to carry a replica of your passport for check-in. 

We flew to Mt Batur (additionally called Kintamani), which closing erupted in 2000. The tour generally flies over the top of the volcano to give travelers a glimpse inside however the clouds have been too low at the day of our flight. We gasped at panoramic perspectives of the volcano’s crater, fields of black lava and close by volcanic lake.

The pilot thankfully shared his knowledge of local traditions, customs and beliefs through the headsets as we flew over villages, temples, and landmarks. I became amazed to look a village and temple so close to the active volcano however it seems locals accept as true with the volcano is holy so need to stay as close to it as possible. I’m now not positive if I’d be that brave!

Get discounted helicopter tour tickets at Voyagin from US$185.ninety six per character.5. Bathe and feed rescued elephants

After our helicopter tour, we caught round Mason Elephant Lodge to feed and pet the elephants. The hotel is Bali’s only dedicated elephant rescue facility and home to over 30 elephants rescued from Sumatra.

A group of workers member advised us that each elephant eats 80kg of meals consistent with day so there’s no scarcity of possibilities for travelers to assist feed them! Bamboo is to be had at no cost or you may treat them with a basket of fruit and vegetables for Rp.50k (US$three.forty).

Admission to the park expenses US$22 per person. Half day tours including washing and swimming with an elephant begin at US$70 consistent with man or woman.6. Snorkel with tropical fish at Lembongan Island

Swimming with angel fish, rainbow fish, and clown fish is a must see for teenagers that grew up loving Finding Nemo. We located the nice snorkelling spots while doing a day ride around close by Lembongan Island.

Our tour covered car and ferry transfers from Bali and a buffet lunch at a non-public seaside club. Weather allowing, the excursion stops at 3 snorkelling spots:Crystal Bay for colourful coral reefs and tropical fishManta Point for manta rays; andGamat Bay for deep-sea creatures like shrimp and moray eels.

The water changed into too uneven for Manta Point and Gamat Bay at the day of our excursion so we snorkelled at Crystal Bay and two close by coral reefs.

Don’t fear in case your teens haven’t snorkelled before, our guides from Lembongan Water Sport gave us a short snorkelling lesson on board and have been continually in the water with us preserving an eye out.

After snorkelling and lunch, our guides took us for a quick power around the island preventing at lookout factors, landmarks and to point out their home villages. Rainbows shaped with the aid of the spray of crashing waves at Devil’s Tears wowed us, even as the swing at Dream Beach was too Instagram-worth to face up to, and we bought hand-made bracelets from local children at a lookout factor.

Get discounted snorkelling day excursion tickets at Voyagin from US$sixty four.86 in line with man or woman.7. Walk under water

For extra interaction with Bali’s tropical fish, strive strolling underwater with Seawalker or Aquanauts. Underwater walks last 15 minutes and take you approximately 5 metres right down to the ocean ground to see specific types of fish than you notice when snorkelling.

Guides help at every step of the excursion and provide food for the fish to consume out of your hand (the fish nibbled my palms!).

Our underwater walk changed into a part of an afternoon cruise to Lembongan Island with Bali Hai Cruises. The 3-storey cruise boat had foods and drinks to be had for purchase on-board and tremendous live track. The boat docked at Bali Hai’s pontoon off the coast of Lembongan Island in which a few visitors selected to spend the day swimming, snorkelling and water-sliding.

We stuck a velocity boat to a smaller pontoon for our underwater walk after which to Bali Hai’s beach club on Lembongan Island to sunbake on lounge chairs, swim within the pool, and enjoy a buffet BBQ lunch.

There’re thousands of unfastened sports at the seaside membership like banana boat rides, canoe and paddle board lease, and snorkelling tours (even though I assume my nephew’s favored component approximately the seashore club become its loose Wi-Fi!).

Tip: It’s first-rate to deliver your personal towels to avoid purchasing rent towels from the beach club.

Speed boats frequently run among the seashore membership and pontoon/ship. We stuck the ultimate boat to the ship at 2.45pm to go back to Bali.  

Discounted underwater walk only tickets are available at Voyagin from US$65 consistent with man or woman. Bali Hai Day Cruise tickets are to be had at Voyagin from US$ninety nine in line with individual.8. Learn Indonesian lifestyle through dance at Devdan Show