Ubud ATV Quad Bike Tour: Rice Terraces & Jungle Trails

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Duration6h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · MS

PickupAt your hotel

Riding quad bikes through Ubud's rice terraces and jungle feels nothing like the beach resorts

You ride a 250cc automatic ATV through rice terraces, bamboo forest, jungle, and traditional villages in central Bali, with a professional instructor leading you through beginner-friendly and technical sections. The 6-hour experience includes hotel pickup, safety briefing, lunch, shower facilities, and all protective gear. You handle the riding; the operator handles everything else.

Step-by-step itinerary

Bali ATV quad bike adventure

Hotel or villa pickup
Safety briefing by instructor
Ride ATV through rice fields
Explore jungle and tunnels
Ride along rivers and villages
Challenge technical terrain slopes
Return to hotel or villa drop-off

The Experience

The moment you throttle a 250cc ATV across a narrow ridge between flooded rice paddies, you realize how different the inland Bali actually is. Your instructor runs through the safety briefing first—helmet, boots, the feel of the bike—and then you're off the paved road and into the kind of terrain most tourists never see. Rice terraces drop away on both sides, bamboo forest closes in overhead, and the track narrows to something that looks impossible until you're already riding it. The Ubud quad bike tour takes you through villages where people are actually living, not posing for photos, and then into sections steep enough that you need to use the full throttle to climb back out.

The ride itself runs about 6 hours from hotel pickup to drop-off, which sounds long until you realize how much ground you cover—tunnels carved into hillsides, river crossings, jungle so thick you can barely see the sky. If you want it easier, the track is beginner-friendly; if you want the challenge, your instructor will point you toward the technical sections where the slope seems to defy physics. The bikes are automatic, so you're not fighting a clutch while balancing on a ridge. Lunch is included halfway through, usually at a spot where you can actually see what you've ridden through, and there's a shower and changing room back at the base so you're not sitting in mud for the drive home.

Hotel pickup covers everywhere from Kuta and Seminyak to Ubud itself, so you don't need to arrange your own transport to the starting point. You get safety gear, insurance, and a guide who knows which lines are rideable and which ones will wreck your day. The bikes are maintained regularly, and the whole operation runs rain or shine—this isn't a fair-weather activity. Bring sunscreen and a camera; the views from the top of some of those climbs are the kind you don't forget.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off from your accommodation across Bali, a full safety briefing and professional ATV instructor, use of a 250cc automatic quad bike, all safety-approved equipment (helmet, boots, protective gear), insurance coverage, buffet lunch, access to shower facilities and changing rooms, lockers for your belongings, and towels. Tax and service charges are included in the price.

Good to know

Easy physical levelNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

Operated by Bali ATV Ride

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see the real inland Bali—rice fields, jungle, and working villages—without arranging your own transport or worrying about bike maintenance; the 6-hour format and included lunch mean you're not rushing between stops or figuring out where to eat.