Singapore, Bali, Komodo and Java
Singapore, then Ubud, two nights under sail in Komodo National Park, and the temples of Central Java.
- 11 nights
- Five stays
- Singapore, Indonesia
- City, temples, sailing, dragons, culture
Eleven nights from Singapore to Bali's hills, the islands of Komodo by schooner and Borobudur in Java. It ends with a night on an old coffee plantation in the Central Java highlands.
- Length
- 11 nights
- Pace
- Five stays
- Style
- City, temples, sailing, dragons, culture
- Route
- Singapore to Ubud, Bali to Komodo National Park to Borobudur, Java to The Central Java highlands
- SingaporeThree nights
- Ubud, BaliThree nights
- Komodo National ParkTwo nights
- Borobudur, JavaTwo nights
- The Central Java highlandsOne night
01
Days 1 to 4 · three nights
Singapore
Driven from the airport to the hotel, then an afternoon in Little India, Arab Street and Chinatown and an evening bumboat ride past Boat Quay, Clarke Quay and Marina Bay. The next morning a resident expert leads an architecture walk, and the afternoon is spent up on the Sands SkyPark above Marina Bay Sands. The third day brings a Singaporean cooking class, the National Gallery in its heritage building, and Singapore Zoo.
Where you stay
Raffles Singapore
Raffles Singapore opened on Beach Road in 1887. It has 115 suites, eight places to eat and drink, among them the Long Bar, and a spa with an outdoor pool; butlers look after every guest.
02
Days 4 to 7 · three nights
Ubud, Bali
A flight to Bali and a drive up to Ubud, where a local temple visit ends with a private blessing from a Balinese priest, and a sunset walk along the Campuhan Ridge. The next day is batik, the ARMA museum and some shopping with a guide. On the third, a visit to the Green School on the Ayung River, a lesson in Balinese dance and gamelan, and an evening ride on horseback through the rice fields.
Where you stay
Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
Mandapa sits on the Ayung River outside Ubud, among jungle, rice fields and an old Balinese village. It has 35 suites and 25 villas with private pools, four places to eat, a spa, and a butler for each guest.
03
Days 7 to 9 · two nights
Komodo National Park
Two nights aboard a privately chartered phinisi, the traditional Indonesian schooner. The first day goes to Komodo and Rinca, walking the trails with rangers to look for Komodo dragons. The second is spent sailing between quiet beaches and bays in the national park, with snorkelling, diving, kayaking, walks or time on the sand.
Where you stay
AYANA Lako Di'a
AYANA Lako Di'a is a 54-metre phinisi sailing into Komodo National Park. Chartered privately, it takes up to 18 guests in nine cabins, with a crew of 16, on a route set around the party.
04
Days 9 to 11 · two nights
Borobudur, Java
On to Java, with a stop at a Javanese cultural museum and in Solo, an old sultanate, before arriving at Borobudur. The next day goes to the Kraton palace and the Water Castle in Yogyakarta, with the option of sunset at the Hindu temple of Prambanan, about 40 minutes away, or a performance of Javanese ballet, then about 90 minutes back to the hotel with a stop for dinner on the way.
Where you stay
Amanjiwo
Amanjiwo looks over Borobudur from the hills of Central Java, built in the local limestone and stepping down from a central rotunda to the pool. Its suites fan out in two crescents, each with a private terrace, and there is a spa rooted in Javanese healing rituals.
05
Days 11 to 12 · one night
The Central Java highlands
About an hour north by car, stopping at the Tembi cultural house and its craft village, a local market and the Ambarawa railway museum with its steam engines. In the afternoon, a walk through the hotel's own coffee plantation. On day 12, about 90 minutes to Semarang airport for the flight home.
Where you stay
MesaStila
MesaStila is set in a Dutch colonial coffee plantation about a century old, near Magelang in the highlands of Central Java, with mountains all around. It has 23 joglo villas, a hammam spa and a pool, and an old colonial railway station on the estate.
Ways to make it yours
- Sunset at Prambanan temple, or a performance of Javanese ballet, from Borobudur
This is a sample. The hotels, the pace and the order are where we start, not where we finish: every journey is designed around the people taking it.
Made around you
Most travel is bought. This is designed.
Before anything is booked, we talk: who is travelling, how you like to spend a morning, and the hotel preferences below the obvious, from the kind of bath you like to the time you wake and how much daylight you need in a room. You see options where options matter and clean recommendations where they don't.
The same person remains your point of contact from the first reply to the trip after next. No handovers. No team.
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