On the water · KUTA RAFTING TOURS
This is the shortlist you would send a friend who has never held a paddle: 15 kuta rafting tours that are worth the money, each with what the water does and the one thing to check before you pay.
Spend about 10 hours rafting the gentle Ayung River and riding an ATV through rice fields and villages. Bali Golden Tour includes private hotel transfers, guides, lunch, water, and insurance. The rafting suits beginners, while the ATV ride focuses on sightseeing rather than speed. Guides such as Darma, Bobby, Putra, and Agus are praised for friendly service.
You’ll raft 33 Class II and III rapids on a longer northern section of Bali’s Ayung River with a professional guide and full safety gear. Hotel pickup, insurance, lockers, towels, hot showers, and a buffet lunch are included. Bring sun protection, water shoes, and dry clothes. The trip lasts about five hours.
“Though the rafting is pretty tame, the experience of seeing Bali this way is 100 worth it!!! Our guide even let us get out to swim a bit and stand underwater falls. It's a treck to get to the rafts and there are a lot of rocks in the water so a shoe you can wear in water is recommended over flip flops.”
Spend 8 to 9 hours combining a guided ATV ride near Ubud with white-water rafting on the Ayung River. You’ll cross rice fields, jungle tracks, village paths, and waterfalls, with guides such as Yogi, Darma, and Rian helping with transport and activities. Lunch, equipment, showers, towels, insurance, and hotel transfers are included.
“Great adventure and great staff. We had a lot of fun in a beautiful area. Save tour, with expierends tourguides”
Spend about six hours rafting the Ayung River and riding an ATV through Bali’s countryside near Kuta. Your rafting guide leads you past waterfalls and through refreshing water, followed by a buffet lunch and a guided ATV circuit. Choose a solo or tandem ride. Driver Gday is noted for friendly, flexible service.
“Super fun and great value for money. We had a great driver who was very friendly and happy to work around our needs and interests - Gday you are awesome!!”
Start with a 1:30am hotel pickup, climb Mount Batur in the dark, and watch sunrise over Lake Batur with breakfast and coffee. Then raft 16 kilometers of the Ayung River through rainforest and waterfalls. Asta may handle your driving, while local guides lead the hike and rafting. Expect a long, active day.
“For our last day in Bali we chose to do the Early Sunrise trek up Mount Batur Volcano. The sunrise was beautiful, what a view! it was definitely worth it after the steep climb we had to get there, the breakfast was also greatly appreciated at thRead more”
You’ll leave your Kuta hotel around 8:30 a.m. for Carang Sari Village, where a rafting guide leads a 12-kilometer run through rapids, rice paddies, waterfalls, and rainforest. Lunch, a hot shower, towels, private transport, and a coffee plantation tasting are included. The rafting group is shared, with up to 10 people.
“The ticket that I purchased was for 6 hours and lunch buffet but the fact was the water rafting is only 2-3 hours and there's no lunch buffet. The vendor should give warning. I would of purchase cheaper ticket which is half price of what I Read more”
You’ll raft the Ayung River near Ubud through jungle, waterfalls, rock walls, and grade II to III rapids. A guide handles the raft and safety briefing, while private transfers, helmets, life jackets, insurance, and an Indonesian buffet lunch are included. A dry bag is available for phones, but photos and videos cost extra.
“A super fun white water trip. They picked us up, our guide had a dry bag to hold our phones and did a quick training so everyone felt comfortable. They stop once where you can buy water or even a beer. The river is really beautiful. I would highly recommend.”
Spend a full day combining a two-hour ATV ride through rice fields, jungle, hills, mud, caves, and a waterfall with two hours of rafting on the Ayung River. Upadani Bali Tour includes private air-conditioned transfers, safety gear, shower facilities, insurance, and Indonesian buffet lunch. Choose a single ATV or tandem ride.
“Bring towels and extra piece of clothes and have a bag for wet/dirty clothes. If you have a waterproof camera bring it, on boths rides it is not that dangerous so you can easily have it with you”
Spend about five hours combining Class II-III rafting on Bali’s Ayung River with a guided jungle buggy ride. Mason Adventures provides pickup, safety gear, lockers, showers, towels, lunch, and insurance. Expect a highly active day, including roughly 600 steps down to the river and about 400 back up.
Combine an 18-kilometer Telaga Waja rafting trip with a village walk and home-cooked Balinese lunch. Guides such as Kadek, Rias, and Made Kumbara lead the day, with waterfall views, jungle scenery, rice fields, and a local family compound. Hotel pickup and private touring keep the day simple.
Spend about eight hours on two Bali adventures: an off-road ATV ride and white water rafting on the Ayung River. The private format keeps the day focused on your group, with pickup offered and staff such as drivers Putu Rastika, Kadek, and Nyoman praised for friendly, reliable service. Expect moderate physical effort and a schedule that may begin as early as 2:30 AM.
Spend seven hours moving from Class 2 to 3 rapids on the Ayung River to a two-hour ATV ride through rice fields, village life, jungle paths, and mud. Your package includes hotel pickup, equipment, guides, Indonesian buffet lunch, towels, showers, and a choice of solo or tandem ATV.
“We completed the ATV and Water rafting which we absolutely loved. Highly recommend. Also big shout out to Agus who was our driver, he was kind and very knowledgeable and spoke clear English. I would use Agus when we are back in Bali.”
You’ll raft 16 km of eastern Bali’s Telaga Waja River, handling class III and IV rapids with a trained river guide. Private hotel transfers, safety gear, showers, towels, insurance, and an Indonesian buffet lunch are included. Drivers such as Wayan Mo, Ajung, and Doni are noted for punctual, friendly service.
Take a 16-kilometer rafting run on Bali’s Telaga Waja River, with Class III-IV rapids, tropical scenery, waterfalls, rice fields, and a 4-meter dam drop. A professional English or Indonesian-speaking guide leads the 2 to 3-hour river trip. Hotel pickup is optional, lunch is included, and the raft starts and finishes without the long stair climb found at Ayung River rafting.
“Prachtige omgeving! Ruim 2 uur raften, onderweg nog stop gemaakt bij de waterval en met afsluiting een heerlijke lunch.”
Combine two hours of guided Ayung River rafting with two hours on a quad bike near northern Ubud. You’ll see river scenery, a waterfall, rice fields, and Ramayana carvings, with equipment, lunch, showers, insurance, and transport included in transfer packages. Drivers such as Bodi, Agung, and Nengah Sudipta are noted for friendly service.
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