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Family holiday to Bali, Monkeys and Volcanoes

COUNTRY:
Indonesia
LOCATION:
Bali
DEPARTURES:
2012: 31 Mar, 21 Jul, 4 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Sep, 23 Sep, 15 Dec, 29 Dec
2013: 5 Jan, 12 Jan, 23 Mar, 20 Jul, 3 Aug, 17 Aug, 21 Sep, 22 Sep, 21 Dec, 28 Dec
PRICE:
From £2079 - £2439 (15 days ) including UK flights
MORE INFO:
From £879 - £929 excluding flights. From £1879 - £2149 per child including flights from the UK. From £859 - £899 per child excluding flights.
VOUCHERS:
Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday
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Family holiday to Bali, Monkeys and Volcanoes

Family holiday to Bali, Monkeys and Volcanoes

Small group family holiday
This is a 'small group family adventure' - typically you will join several other families and travel in a group of approx. 16 people. The trips are great value and a great way for you and your children to meet new people! While itineraries are pre-planned there is some flexibility and you'll have plenty of time to yourselves. Most adventure kids tend to be aged between 7 and 15, but some are younger (minimum age is usually 5) and some older (perhaps travelling as part of a larger family group). Please check with the operator to confirm the minimum age for this trip

How this holiday makes a difference

Responsible mission: As adventure travellers we relish and celebrate the diversity of the world. We also recognise our obligation to protect the environments that we explore. Our aim is to tread lightly, whilst contributing to maintain the world’s culture and nature, and most importantly to engage the help of all our customers to utilise the potential of tourism as a tool to aid sustainable development. We believe that responsible travellers are welcome in the places that they visit.

On this trip: We travel in small family groups (max 16 people) so have a minimal impact on the environment as we go. We employ a local group leader and guides to give you a genuine insight into the fascinating culture of this region. You eat in local restaurants, visit local markets and villages. Seeing Balinese traditional dance and staying in small hotels puts money into the pockets of local people too, distributing evenly the money we spend, and encourage cultural appreciation.

Travelling through such rural villages you’ll also see Bali’s fascinating way-of-life and traditional industry at work; this trip provides income for a wide variety of people.

Responsible code: Being Responsible is at the heart of everything our company does - full details of our code can be found on our website. The local supplier for this trip will promote our responsible travel code throughout your adventure. You will also receive specific information on this trip’s responsibility in your trip notes.

Helping to minimise negative impact: All of our customers are invited to offset their international flight emissions. Contributions go to the Blue Ventures Carbon Offset program, a non-profit organisation which provides solar stoves for subsistence communities in Madagascar, benefiting the people and protecting the environment. We also contribute £2 per person towards offsetting of your in-country travel. We fully offset all emissions from our staff travel and run an energy efficient office.

Giving something back: We have a foundation that collects the funds that you donate to us to support our projects. All our customers are invited to make a £1 per person contribution to the foundation at the time of booking. We will match every contribution that you make with our own £1. You as a customer choose where these funds are used from a shortlist of nominated projects – so it really is YOUR foundation.

Partnerships: As a company we support The Travel Foundation, a UK charity that has been established to promote responsible travel practises throughout the whole of the travel industry. We also work with a number of charity partners who work in the destinations that we visit; including Friends of Conservation and Born Free Foundation. We partner with many small grassroots projects throughout the destinations that we visit - they all share our responsible vision.

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Family holiday to Bali, Monkeys and Volcanoes

Reviewed 20 Aug 2005 by Howard Porter4 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Climbing Mount Batur in the middle of Bali with the kids at 4.00am

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Be prepared to be flexible on accommodation standards, to get to the best places you cannot always stay in the best hotels. In Bali most rooms are always clean if lacking some modern facilities.

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


Yes it did benefit local people. All the accommodation was owned and operated by locals, and the guide and driver were locals. Also many of the stops to buy goods were at local markets, or small workshops, so most of the money spent went to local people. As for the environmental impact it is difficult to go on a touring holiday, even on a small island like Bali without impacts on local emissions etc. Other aspects were not too bad but one got the impression that environmentally responsible holidays is not high on the agenda for Bali, the guide tried a little, but there was not a lot of general awareness of the issues, and potential local solutions.

Read the operator's response here:

We actively encourage our local group leaders to tell clients of ways they can help the environment in the country they are visiting. Advice will obviously differ from place-to-place, but one example is the idea of using one, large communal water source for clients to use to cut down on plastic waste (where it's not practicable to filter). Leaders are also informed of our Responsible Travel policy, plus information is in our manual issued to all local group leaders.

We're confident our practices in Bali are eco-friendly, but such feedback is invaluable to us in the ongoing assessment of the responsibility of our holidays and informs the improvements and enhancements we like to make. We will also be passing these comments on to our ground agent in Bali so we can develop our Responsible Travel in Indonesia together with the locals, who know their country best. Economically, it's a difficult time for the island so we are doing our best to add encouragement.

Coincidentally, yesterday we also received contact from the Indonesian Ecotourism Network, who we've already been in touch with to see how we can develop things further.

Reviewed 06 Aug 2005 by Peter Richardson4 star rating

All the holiday was memorable from start to finish. Although for the climb to Mt Batur you do need walking boots as it is not easy. We do feel that we have seen the real Bali and met lots of local interesting people. The two local guides were excellent and well informed. The hotel and staff at Ubud were excellent, Lovina beach had a wonderful setting however it was spoilt by the beach touts and some of the room fittings needed replaced, although improvements seemed ongoing. Tirtagangga need only have been one night as there was nothing to do on the evening but the rice terraces were stunning.

The accommodation was basic but comfortable. Mt Batur was hard and you get a wonderful body massage off the locals where i believe they use some sort of chip pan fat. Sideman village stay was very good and well worth an extra night. The final two days at Seminyak were relaxing. The hotel food was the best we had and very reasonable. We concluded our stay with an extension to Komodo Island and this was well worth the extra cost. We stayed on the boat for one night and two nights on Flores Island which was an experience in itself. We had an excellent holiday overall and can recommend it to anybody who is looking for this type of holiday.
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