Your Balinese Day with a Local Family in Mengwi Village

Ubud, Indonesia
Duration5h 30m
TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 30 travelers

Overview

From your family to theirs: a Balinese day to remember.

This experience connects people, place and traditions. The market ingredients become the lunch you prepare together. The offerings you make help you understand the rituals before joining a temple blessing. The rice fields reveal the everyday work behind the food on your plate.

A visit to the village school offers a rare look at local children’s daily lives—an encounter travellers seldom experience in Bali. Visits take place when the school is open, outside weekends and public holidays.

You spend the day with a local family, sharing their home, joining activities and exchanging stories. Adults and children participate together, with no cooking or farming experience needed.

Beyond Bali’s familiar sights, discover village life through the people who live it. Roasting coffee together, exchanging stories over lunch or making your first offering creates something deeply personal: shared memories your family can carry for a lifetime.

What's included

  • Cultural Guide
  • Lunch
  • Welcome Drink
  • Ingredients et Kitchen Tools
  • Private Transport to visit the local sites provided by the Family
  • Filtered Water available
  • Tips
  • Drinks with Alcohol
  • Sodas
  • Gifts for the school children

What to expect

Spend a day with a Balinese family in a village near Mengwi, exploring local traditions through shared activities, food and encounters.

Start with a visit to a local market, where your hosts introduce you to the ingredients used in Balinese cooking. Then stop at the village school, subject to the school calendar, as it is closed on weekends and public holidays. Continue to the family home to learn how to make traditional offerings and discover their role in Balinese rituals.

Join your hosts in the kitchen to help prepare lunch and roast coffee. Then sit down together to enjoy the meal you helped prepare.

After lunch, walk through the village, meet residents and follow country paths to a small temple, where you take part in a blessing ceremony.

Continue to the rice fields to learn how the irrigation system works. Your hosts introduce you to rice planting and traditional farming tools, giving you insight into rural life in Bali.

Your family has a private vehicle to visit the market and return to the compound.

Highlights:
• Share a day with a Balinese family
• Join a blessing ceremony at a village temple.
• Explore a local market and try rice farming with your hosts

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

When you reach the “Legung Luwih” sign on the side of the road, follow the path for about 50 metres until you see a traditional Balinese compound with another “Legung Luwih, Balinese Life Experience” sign.

End point

When you reach the “Legung Luwih” sign on the side of the road, follow the path for about 50 metres until you see a traditional Balinese compound with another “Legung Luwih, Balinese Life Experience” sign.

Additional information

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed

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