Coffee with a view, a walk through the rice terraces, a swim under a waterfall and dinner on a farm in the hills. Just us.
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North through Tabanan's villages. Everything gets greener and cooler as we climb, so bring a light layer.
10:15am
A little hillside café looking straight at Mount Batukaru, with the terraces spread out in front. The beans come from their own farm two kilometres up the road. It's right on the way in, just before the main lookout.
11:15am
A UNESCO World Heritage landscape, hundreds of hectares of terraces fed by the old subak water channels. We follow the coloured trail markers down into the paddies, completely away from the road.
1:00pm
Right at the top of the lookout by the big Jatiluwih sign, with an outdoor deck looking over the whole valley. Indonesian and Western food, and their red rice tea.
2:15pm
Slow riding through the quiet lanes towards Angseri. Stop wherever the view's good, take photos, grab an iced coffee.
5:00pm
A farm-to-table café on a permaculture farm in the hills, inside a bamboo building looking over rice fields and mountains. Almost everything is grown on the farm or by farmers next door. Mostly vegan and properly good. We stay as the light goes gold around 6:20.
Home around 8:45. Easy pace on the mountain roads in the dark, then the familiar lights of Canggu.