Top Bali Classes & Workshops

Silver jewelry making is an age-old Balinese craft that's vital to the island’s rural economy. On this private tour, try out the art coached by a silversmith at a traditional village workshop. Tour the village to understand the craft's importance; and learn to shape, cut, and finish your design before keeping it as a memento. Prebooking will secure your place for a time that fits your schedule. Upgrade your experience to transport, a cooking class, a sightseeing tour, and more.

Surfing is a great traveling activity but notoriously difficult to pick up for newcomers to the sport. This very affordable, small-group surf lesson is designed for beginners, safely covering the basics in a relaxed and friendly environment, sending travelers well on their way to catch their first waves. This experience includes an online surf lesson, and the use of surfboards, shirts, lockers, and showers.

Learn to cook Balinese cuisine with a cooking class at an organic farm. You'll start by walking around the farm, picking out ingredients that you'll use to prepare your meal. Your instructor will then teach you how to cook some easy-to-make dishes, which you'll eat at the end of your class. You'll also take home a small cookbook so that you’ll be able to recreate the same dishes at home.

Arriving at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport can be stressful, particularly after a long flight, with freelance drivers and taxi touts all hustling for your business. Get your vacation off to an easy start and a stress-free finish when you book this private round-trip airport transfer service, in a comfortable car with space for up to four travelers plus luggage. To avoid confusion, your driver will hold a sign with your name.

The perfect souvenir of Bali is unique to you. Unleash your creativity and learn new skills from professional silversmiths during this silver jewelry class in the heart of Uluwatu. Work with your own design or copy templates to learn every step of the silversmithing process, and produce a hand-crafted piece that’s yours to cherish. Choose between daytime and evening classes, and upgrade to add gold plating to your silver piece.

There’s no better way to get to know a culture than through its food, and this Balinese cooking class on an organic farm outside Ubud is so authentic you even use a traditional wood-fired stove. Learn about organic farming and Bali’s subak system, recognized with UNESCO World Heritage status, pick organic ingredients from the garden, and prepare a meal of six delicious Balinese favorites along with healthy juices.

Whether you’re recovering from a hike or a long flight or simply looking to relax and de-stress, discover what makes Balinese therapists so famed around the world on this visit to a Nusa Dua spa. Your package includes a foot wash ritual, traditional full-body massage, lulur body scrub, body polish, moisturizer, and a shower, as well as transfers from within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of the Nusa Dua spa.

Bali is celebrated for its spas, but appointments often fill up in advance. Guarantee two hours of relaxation when you a session at Bali Orchid Spa, available with or without transfers from your hotel. Your treatment includes a foot wash, a Balinese massage, a body scrub, a yogurt moisturizer, and a relaxing flower bath.

Adrenaline junkies will thrill to this adventure combo: white-water rafting the Ayung River and roaring through Bali’s lush countryside on an ATV. Discover hidden waterfalls, cool off in refreshing waters, and whizz through rapids with the help of your rafting guide. After a buffet lunch, don a helmet and boots to ride around the rice paddies on an ATV. Choose from a solo or tandem ride to suit your preferences.

Discover Ubud’s natural wonders, UNESCO-listed rice terraces, and sacred temples at your own pace on this private full-day tour. Visit the Ubud Monkey Forest, and trek to the Tegalalang rice terraces, then soar through the trees on a jungle swing and cool off with a swim at Tegenungan Waterfall. Book the transport-only option, or upgrade to include entry fees, or lunch and entry fees.

If you're looking for a romantic evening in Bali, consider this sunset tour to Tanah Lot Temple with an optional spa treatment add-on. Your driver will pick you up from your hotel and take you to Tanah Lot, where you'll savor views of the colorful sunset over the sea. You'll then head to a local spa for a relaxing treatment, with a flower bath, massage, body scrub, and foot ritual.

Batik—hand-painted fabric—is a vital part of Indonesian culture. Discover how it works and create your very own piece of colorful fabric art, the perfect souvenir, in a charming studio outside Ubud. After sketching out your design, draw it on the fabric in hot wax, allowing you to apply dye to selected areas only: when the wax is washed off, the outline will remain in the original color.

Try making silver jewelry from scratch under the guidance of a local Bali silversmith in this small-group workshop near Ubud’s Monkey Forest. Create your very own piece to take home with you as a souvenir that you can treasure forever. Choose from sample designs or come up with your own to make jewelry that’s totally unique.

If you’ve tried Bali’s unique cuisine and want to be able to recreate it back home, this small-group Balinese cooking class is an ideal activity for you: The morning session visits a local market to shop for fresh ingredients. Learn about spices and techniques from a professional Balinese cook, then enjoy eating the fruits of your labor. Transfers from Ubud hotels are included.

Enjoy the freedom to build your own itinerary but none of the dangers of self-driving Bali on this private build-your-own day tour. Meet your driver/guide in your hotel lobby—pickup covers Ubud and the main south Bali hotspots—and plan out a route that suits your interests. That could include temples, rice terraces, waterfalls, coffee plantations, markets, villages, or beaches.

Get a taste of the authentic Bali in a sustainable way when you join a cooking class at this community-run organic farm and cooking school. Pick veggies from the green garden, tour a traditional market (morning experience only), and prepare a delicious meal of six Indonesian dishes. Once you and your small group have prepared and shared your feast, take home a recipe book to recreate the flavors.

Experience the lively markets, majestic temples, and natural wonders of Ubud on this private full-day tour, with round-trip transfers from Ubud and south Bali. You have the chance to customize your day to your own interests, visiting attractions like Tegenungan Waterfall, Elephant Cave, Ubud Monkey Forest, and the wood-carving village of Mas. Upgrade to enjoy a restaurant lunch, or both lunch and a jungle swing.

Cycling is an amazing way to discover rural Bali. From rice harvesting to timeless ceremonies, experience local life on a guided cycle tour with hotel transfers. Before you start your mellow downhill ride, hit the scenic Tegalalang Rice Terrace, learn about traditional farming practices at a coffee plantation, and capture photos of Lake Batur and the Mt. Batur volcano, and once you’re done there’s an Indonesian lunch.

Spend the day traveling around some of Bali’s isolated highlights without worrying about how to get around. Drive around the island in an air-conditioned vehicle, your private driver behind the wheel, and stop at a range of tranquil and spellbinding destinations. See Tanah Lot Temple sitting steadfast in the ocean; walk around the rolling green paddy fields of Jatiluwih; take grand photos at the Balinese Handara Gate; and swing over the jungle, enjoying the grand views of the Twin Lakes, at Wanagiri Hills.

Enjoy a fun-packed selection of water sports for the perfect Bali beach break. Soar above the ocean waters while parasailing, then get wet with a Jet Ski ride, enjoy thrills and spills on a donut boat, and try a banana boat too. Private round-trip hotel transfers make it easy to get there and back, and you’ll have access to shower facilities and lockers. Upgrade to add a cooking class.

Making your own jewelry is a signature Ubud experience. This private tour takes place in Celuk, the nearby craft village that’s home to most of Bali’s silversmiths. Equipped with 5 grams of silver, you’ll learn techniques including sawing, stamping, hammering, soldering, sanding, and polishing with your own personal tutor. Leave with an exclusive piece made to your own design or following a template.

Add the finishing touch to your Canggu villa vacation and bring home the perfect souvenir from Indonesia, when you book this private cooking tutor to teach you three local favorites at your very own villa. Master the art of gado-gado salad, corn fritters, chicken in sweet soy sauce, or klepon, a coconut and palm sugar sweet. Your chef will bring all the supplies and even do the dishes.

Learn to cook authentic Balinese food in the island in which it originated with this cooking class. You'll start with a visit to a morning market where you'll learn all about local ingredients. Then it's time to hit the kitchen, where you'll learn the art of making sauces and pastes as well as side dishes and main courses; which you’ll then get to eat!

Learn to surf or improve your skills with a private lesson at Seminyak Beach, perfect for beginner or intermediate surfers. Meet at La Plancha beach restaurant for a safety briefing before your 2-hour private lesson with an experienced instructor. Enjoy transfers from the Kuta area and all necessary equipment, plus light refreshments included.