Get up close and personal with these gentle giants in a beautiful tropical park setting. In the Elephant Safari Park at Taro Ubud, you will be able to see the elephants immersing themselves in the park lake, in between riding, painting or other activities. Interact closely by hand feeding them, touching them, taking photos with them, and learning more about the elephants ancestry and diversity at the Park’s historical graphic displays. Complete your day by visiting two most famous temples in the southwest Bali – Taman Ayun and Tanah Lot – as you watch the sunset in style before return.
1.Elephant Safari Ride & Park Access
In the historic village of Taro, northern Ubud, you will embark on a scenic stroll atop an elephant through a large botanical garden and jungle. In this package you will be granted the access to touch and hand-feed the Elephants, watch their playful bathing rituals, take photos with them and witness the displays of amazing elephant intelligence and their capabilities at the Park Arena. You will also get to learn amazing facts from the Park’s information centre and museum.
2.Coffee Plantation
Dubbed as the priciest coffee in the world, Luwak coffee (also called civet coffee) has drawn interests from coffee aficionados around the world. Here you’ll be shown the traditional process of coffee-making and interesting information about how the civet cats eat the coffee and poop the beans out undigested. You will have the chance to sample a tasteful cup of Luwak coffee (totally hygiene) as well as 5 cups of different coffee varieties and 5 cups of teas (total 11 cups) for free.
3.Taman Ayun Temple
Literally translates as ‘Beautiful Garden,’ Taman Ayun was the royal temple of then Mengwi Kingdom, located strategically in Trans-Bali roadway in north Badung. It has a large courtyard surrounded by wide moat which can only be entered through a bridge leading into the passage gate. Apart from its religious purpose, the temple was built with the intention of being a place of tranquility, hence the big lawn and peripheral orchids.
4.Tanah Lot Temple
This temple is hands-down one of the most popular destinations in Bali and renowned among the tourists as the most popular spot for overlooking sunset towards Indian Ocean. The temple, sitting on the top of an offshore cliff, appears to be floating in the occasion of high tides. Tanah Lot Temple also holds a status of high spiritual importance as one of the most revered Balinese Hindu temples, and tourists will occasionally see the locals holding religious ceremonies and organizing dance performance around the temple.
