Ubud: Tanah Lot Temple & Jatiluwih Rice Terraces Private Tour

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Duration10h

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PickupAt your hotel

Four temples and a UNESCO rice terrace in one private day from Ubud

You visit four temples and a UNESCO rice terrace in a single day without arranging transport, timing the tides, or navigating between sites yourself. Hotel pickup and drop-off, a private guide, all entrance fees, and bottled water are included. The tour is built around low tide at Tanah Lot and sunset timing, so the schedule is fixed—that's what makes a full itinerary possible in one day.

10h

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit temples and rice terraces in Bali

Visit Taman Ayun Temple
Explore Ulun Danu Beratan Temple
See Jatiluwih Rice Terraces
Visit Tanah Lot Temple at sunset

The Experience

Tanah Lot Temple sits on a rock in the ocean, and you can only reach it when the tide is low. That single fact shapes the whole day—the timing, the route, the reason your guide knows exactly when to get you there. You start with hotel pickup from Ubud, then head north to Taman Ayun, the royal temple of the Mengwi Empire built in 1634, where the main structure floats on a fish pond and the roofs stack upward in the way only Balinese architecture does. The air is cooler up there, and the stone is older than most things you'll touch that day.

After Taman Ayun, you move to Ulun Danu Beratan Temple, which sits on Lake Beratan itself—the temple appears to float, and it's dedicated to the water goddess Dewi Danu because this lake feeds the irrigation system that keeps central Bali's rice paddies alive. Then comes Jatiluwih, the widest rice terraces in Bali and a UNESCO World Heritage site. The scale stops you. The terraces drop away in waves of green, and the system that waters them—called Subak—has been in use for centuries. You're not just looking at a view; you're looking at how people solved the problem of growing rice on a slope, and it worked so well UNESCO decided to protect it.

The day ends at Tanah Lot Temple as the light changes. The temple is an 11th-century structure on a rock that the ocean surrounds, and the sunset from there is the reason this tour exists. Your guide times the arrival so you're there when the light turns gold and the rock becomes a silhouette. The private tour format means no crowd jostling for the same angle, and the driver knows the back routes to avoid the main tourist bottleneck. You return to your hotel after dark, with the minivan air-conditioned and the day already feeling like something you'll think about for a while.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off from Ubud, private transport in an air-conditioned minivan with a driver/guide, entrance fees to Taman Ayun Temple, Ulun Danu Beratan Temple, Jatiluwih Rice Terraces, and Tanah Lot Temple, plus bottled water and all taxes and handling charges. Travel time between sites is included in the total tour duration.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyInfant seats availableNot for heart conditions

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want the main temples and rice terraces of central Bali in one day without arranging your own transport or timing the tides at Tanah Lot—the private format and fixed schedule are what make all four stops fit into a single afternoon and evening.