Best Thailand Beaches: Jatiluwhih Rice Terraces

visited June 2016


Outlook from i of the several roadside warungs (cafe/restaurants) inwards the modest hamlet of Jatiluwih.


Pre-sunrise from our accommodation. Agung, Bali's highest mountain, is the higher peak.

Although JATILUWIH is supposed to live THE top rice growing expanse for visitors I'm non also sure.
I idea the terraces were to a greater extent than spectacular around W Bali's BELIMBING, slightly easier to access on arrival together with quicker to attain from Kuta at TEGALLALANG a fleck farther east, the countryside maybe a fleck nicer to walk thru at E Bali's SIDEMAN - together with of course of study if yous desire to walk an attractive rice growing expanse with quick access from Kuta together with a heap of nearby accommodation, the UBUD RICE FIELDS do the undertaking existent well- although they can't jibe the others terrace-wise.
But yeah, JATILUWIH is a pretty practiced combo of these other places - the terraces expect pretty good, they are real tardily to access from the village, the whole expanse is non excessively far from Kuta together with the busy south, together with the full general countryside is attractive. And for certain if walking tracks thru such countryside is your thing, it has to a greater extent than together with longer of these than the other places.


Jatiluwih is slightly less than threescore km from the airdrome - subtract a few for Kuta. The trip should receive got around 2.25 hours unless real tardily at nighttime or early on am.


Jatiluwih's surrounding rice are stretches inwards a narrow V S of the village, roughly next several parallel ridge/gully lines. The east, W together with S house markers shout out for the directional extent of the walking tracks. It's difficult to pose a linear scale on images with uneven relief - it is 3km inwards a direct work betwixt the 2 place-markers at "village" together with "south.


The hamlet is a tiny jewel - hither is the eastern department from our accommodation's restaurant. There's a whole bunch of warungs/cafes overlooking the rice fields along this section. The best IMHO is BILLY'S TERRACE CAFE right at the top where the route does a sudden right.


More of the same a petty farther upward the road. These are practiced images to click-expand.


Much the same expanse from the top of i of the ridges inwards the rice fields. There is a rather deep gully betwixt this together with the village.


Jatiluwih hamlet from Google Earth. The touristy department pictured inwards a higher house is betwixt the ii placemarkers. I ventured upward around the corner - nosotros receive got the typical Balinese ribbon hamlet with a few real brusk streets off to the side. Straight work distance betwixt the 2 house markers is 375m.


Village beyond corner. Not touristy at all. No dubiety yous could teach a real inexpensive repast but our accommodation TERAS SUBAK together with other places inwards the touristy zone could do that. But that expanse had few stores - in that location were tranquillity a lot of modest places along the inwards a higher house strip if yous needed the basics.


OUR ACCOMMODATION
TERAS SUBAK was i of the outset places reached entering the hamlet from the eastern side. The route inwards shot was quite busy during the 24-hour interval with lots of day-tripper cars together with buses arriving. After black things were pretty tranquillity until nigh 0530 when workers began congregating across the route from the photographic idiot box camera prior to setting off into the next fields - run into below.



TERAS SUBAK (the depression house associated with the 2 white vehicles - the higher roof is a rather flash eatery pop with 24-hour interval trip coach groups) from the rice fields. The peak behind is GUNUNG BATUKARU, Bali's 2d highest peak at 2276m. It has Bali's biggest crater (shaded expanse at top) but this is opened upward to the S W side, together with hence in that location is no lake similar nearby BATUR. Bakukari is genuinely the western most of the string of volcanoes which brand upward Bali's cardinal vocanic area.


Be aware when booking accommodation that a lot of places giving a JATILUWIH location are genuinely several km exterior town - oftentimes inwards neighbouring villages.
TERAS SUBAK was the to the lowest degree expensive house nosotros could uncovering right inwards town at $aud29 (about $us21 at the time) with breakfast - equally a thing of fact it was i of the ameliorate value joints inwards the whole area.
Of course of study "better value" implies it was an okay house - together with indeed it was. One of the ameliorate upcountry joints I've stayed at over the years.


Our room (one of 4) was spacious, had plenty of natural low-cal together with okay lighting at night. No aircon, but a fan was fine - places this high don't teach existent warm. You tin run into the wearing clothing storage together with sink at dorsum - the bath was behind the wall inwards left of prototype - non also pokey with practiced quick hot water.
The Rex size bed had a soft mattress. I prefer something fairly theater but I must acknowledge this i was deliciously comfy. The full general status of the room was a fleck crude oil around the edges, but good brusk of the demand to refurbish.
Outside was a dainty patio - a practiced house to sit down together with spotter the passing parade on the primary street. Not to cite the rice fields together with sunrise.
The costless wifi was patchy - mainly because the staff kept forgetting to plow the modem on each morning.

Outlook from our patio - people walking inwards the fields mid shot (better seen if yous click-expand) are on the primary walking rails which starts nigh 30m E of TERAS SUBAK.


TERAS SUBAK roadside restaurant. Views hither non equally practiced equally upward the street (tip - the articulation closest to the corner [BILLY'S TERRACE CAFE]was best inwards this regard) but house attracted a reasonable pose out of passing 24-hour interval trippers together with was pop with locals. The latter may receive got been because prices were typical Bali budget eatery inwards degree - real practiced value: it's difficult to teach a cap cay for 20k (abt $us1.50) inwards touristy areas these days. The inclusive breakfast was basic - a selection of omelette, toast or pancake summation tea/coffee but large eaters tin uncovering plenty of extra materials on the pay menu. The nutrient itself wasn't also bad at all, the beer mutual frigidness together with the service pretty good.

WALKS
Some of the rice champaign walks (coloured routes - others are roads together with lanes) around JATILUWIH. These signs were placed at the start together with destination of each route together with also at strategic spots along the way.

THE SHORT WALK
This is a pop one, because non alone does it NOT receive got upward a large chunk of a day-tripper's fourth dimension (often these dudes receive got other up-country destinations on their trip the low-cal fantastic card) but also gives a real practiced exposure to rice growing province - it's all there: the terraces, irrigation together with drainage ditches, threshing areas, other make growing areas, nearby champaign workers together with oxen etc.


Short walk inwards xanthous - nigh 650m long/say 25mins with stops. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to live on the map-board i prototype inwards a higher house this. Nor was it on the hiking map our accommodation gave us. Maybe it is a real recent improver to the area's treks - done to supply day-trippers with a dainty brusk informative walk. Other walks are a fleck time-consuming.
My "start" together with "finish" points are of course of study interchangeable - I did them that means because most walkers seemed to live doing the same. I reckon the day-trip guides mightiness similar it because their patrons receive got an first-class elevated (above the road) warung right opposite the destination (BILLY'S TERRACE CAFE). Views are definitely ameliorate inwards this higher southern business office of town. However if yous are real unfit yous volition uncovering the opposite management easier - in that location is the warung/restaurant of TERAS SUBAK virtually across the route from the destination together with an elevated flasher house behind. Note TERAS SUBAK views non equally practiced but food/drink prices a steal.

The SHORT WALK starts across the primary route 30m E of TERAS SUBAK. This path along the top of i of the ridges is also business office of the LONG WALK. 
A brusk distance behind photographic idiot box camera a sign directs SHORT WALK trekkers difficult to their right - where the rails rapidly starts to driblet into the gully which parallels the inwards a higher house ridge.


This is shot from towards gully bottom looking dorsum upward the rails - slope non also steep if yous create upward one's heed to walk the route inwards the opposite direction.


At the bottom of the slope yous plow difficult left together with start out to motion along a creek/irrigation ditch for abt 300m. This is existent dainty country: views of rice terraces, other make areas, some uncleared patches of bush together with bamboo, H2O buffalo inwards pens, champaign workers upward closed - yada.


After next the gully bottom for several hundred meters the sign leaves no dubiety where yous demand to do a difficult right to start out the climb dorsum upward to the village.


This climb has the steepest slope together with most steps of whatsoever walk inwards the area. However yous are climbing for alone 200 meters max together with and hence it volition non taxation people of reasonable fitness. 
If unfit, it may live ameliorate to start hither together with descend this slope - equally said, the climb out of the gully at the other side is a fair fleck easier.


The persuasion straightaway later on regaining the primary route right at the tight corner nigh 450m upward the street from the starting dot which is opposite the lastly edifice top-center of image.


Outlook walking dorsum downwards the primary route is non bad either. The rails from the gully comes upward roughly where that construction is top right.



THE LONG WALK
Long is the right term - this i goes for abt 7.5km together with took me the best business office of 2.5hours (although I ambled along together with had plenty of stops). It starts at just the same dot together with finishes alone 30m farther S than the SHORT WALK .
No linear scale on this prototype - direct work distance betwixt "start" together with "shortcut" place-markers is 2.6km


Starting dot i time once to a greater extent than 30m E of TERAS SUBAK, These panorama images click-expand nicely.


Hands off message to tourists.


Go yesteryear the signed-posted right plow for the SHORT TRACK - a brusk distance farther along the ridge the path does a dropping left turn, rapidly followed yesteryear a right. Note "TRACKING ROUTE"sign keeping walkers on the direct together with narrrow. Well non together with hence narrow - most of this walk was on similar width "lanes" - locals utilisation these to motorbike around together with transfer the harvest together with equipment on compact four cycle things. Very tardily underfoot of course of study - no rocks, roots, steps etc.
The few hundred meters along this department is the steepest of the 7.5km (fits my category of FAIRLY STEEP, which is nether my STEEP, VERY STEEP, HEARTBREAKER categories - non to cite DON'T SEND FLOWERS). I also did it the other management together with tin state it would forcefulness unfit people to receive got a rest.


Cool local


Nice


About fifteen minutes into the walk yous hitting this intersection. Bear left. The right manus rails is a diversion which I bargain with downwards page.
Image a fleck blurry - I shot this on the move.


About 35mins into the walk the rails descends into a wooded area, does a right together with left together with inwards some other 10min reaches this temple expanse (abt 2.2km into the treck).  This is the PURA LUHUR BESIKALUNG. It looks to live a pretty imposing structure, but was closed to world entry to 2 times I passed by. Good tidings is that in that location is a fairly modern bath block a brusk distance to the left of pic.


Past the temple the rails parallels a modest river. Vegetation is much the same equally inwards a higher house - non also much rice growing downwards here, but for certain some vegetable plots together with quite a few fruit trees incl citrus together with banana. Also some practiced bamboo patches. After nigh 10 minutes yous attain this couple - the path on the other side leads to the lower department of a fairly large hamlet called BABAHAN - the LONG TRACK needs yous to hold going this side to the right of image. Note far right of prototype the path-side TRACKING ROUTES sign equally shown upward page - consummate with "YOU ARE HERE" arrow. The locals receive got gone to a lot of attempt to brand these walks user-friendly.

Past the couple the rails continues to follow the river. Scenery together with activities are similar, inwards improver to which are several chicken hatcheries together with a piggery. 
Less than 10 minutes from the couple yous volition come upward to an intersection - the rails leading uphill to the right is a SHORTCUT which cuts nigh 2km off the walk. I constitute this brusk department fitted my STEEP category - a existent practiced work-out. Once i time to a greater extent than less fit people may non live whelmed.
If yous don't desire to shortcut together with to do the total walk, move on amongst the river (I intend the rails may veer left a fleck at the intersection). This continues for some other km or together with hence where some other sign instructs yous to plow difficult right, where yous start out the dull gradual climb dorsum to JATILUWIH village. 
Slightly less than a km on from the turning dot yous volition attain the intersection where the SHORTCUT rejoins. In hindsight I receive got to state the SHORTCUT makes feel - in that location is non also much to run into on the longer almost 2km loop. I did it because I could state I had done all the sign-posted walks**
**that's non to state that corking trekkers cannot do to a greater extent than - these tracks receive got branches together with extensions which Pb to local roads together with yous tin access many neighbouring villages together with attractions similar temples if yous are existent keen. TERAS SUBAK'S map has a contrary side which shows many of these inwards all directions around JATILUWIH - of course of study a rental moped or your ain vehicle would brand this much easier.


The render rails follows a ridge all the means to JATILUWIH. Slopes mainly gentle to moderate - maybe i brusk department reaching the lower business office of FAIRLY STEEP. Note the workers center-left of image.

Finally dorsum to the haripin expanse of JATILUWIH. That's the nicely positioned BILLY'S TERRACE CAFE at right. I resisted a see - I scuttled downwards to TERAS SUBAK nigh the lastly roof inwards prototype on concern human relationship Lady Tezza would desire reassurance I hadn't been trampled yesteryear a H2O buffalo inwards my nigh 3 threescore minutes gallop thru the boon docks. Besides, the beer at TERAS SUBAK was probable to live colder than BILLY'S on concern human relationship of fewer customers.


THE DIVERSION
Seen inwards white above, this is non genuinely a brusk cutting of the LONG WALK on concern human relationship it is roughly the same distance at 1300m (and inwards fact takes a fleck longer because the lastly 25/30% narrows to a bush track). But okay, it was on the trekking maps together with and hence I had to cheque it out - pleasant enough, it heads along a parallel ridge inwards a higher house the primary track, rejoining but brusk of the temple.
Interestingly, TERAS SUBAK's map showed a variation - a brusk rails leading off from roughly the "narrows" place-marker together with heading left towards the render business office of the blueish LONG TRACK which terminates at "finish". I couldn't run into whatsoever evidence of the cross rails but it was dead tardily to immature lady these narrower paths if un-signposted. And non existence shown on the official map boards, mayhap the locals idea it didn't warrant a sign post. 


Here's the DIVERSION heading off to the right from the primary LONG TRACK nigh fifteen mins from the start nigh TERAS SUBAK. The diverstin branch is non equally broad or paved equally good equally the primary track, but is even together with hence used for agricultural purposes together with and hence is pretty practiced - at to the lowest degree for the outset 70% or so.


Some existent dainty countryside along here.


After nigh 800m the agricultural laneway comes to a dead end. At outset it's difficult to run into this narrow continuation of the route - it dives downwards the side of the ridge together with into an expanse of bush together with non-rice farming.
Note the flattened rice inwards the pic - in that location were lots of instances where fairly large sections of a rice champaign had been smacked down. Locals told me a recent tempest with real stiff winds was the cause.


The route becomes a existent narrow rails thru mixed farmland together with bush. After a few minutes it crosses this stream, later on which it begins a brusk climb to....


....emerge thru the gap at right onto the primary track. I walked yesteryear this dot (slightly due north of the temple) twice previously together with missed the side rails completely. In retrospect, the common tracks diagram at far left indicates where to divert if yous desire to do my DIVERSION walk inwards reverse.
From this intersection yous tin either plow left towards the photographic idiot box camera together with move dorsum to the hamlet at the TERAS SUBAK cease (abt 2km) or plow right together with consummate the LONG WALK - dorsum to the hairpin expanse of the hamlet is abt 3.5km via the SHORTCUT or 5.5km via the total route.

THE EAST TRACK
This is the alone rails on the official tracks board that doesn't start inwards town. Having done it I tin study that it doesn't genuinely present anything new, together with hence if yous are a fleck bushed maybe this is the i to give a miss. On the other manus if similar me yous receive got to do all the tracks together with similar to run into the total area, it is non wasted time.
In a means it is a fleck similar the DIVERSION - it is some other that ends with a haul along a real narrow path together with a lastly climb upward to bring together the LONG WALK track.

To attain the start yous demand to walk along the primary route north-east of JATILUWIH for abt 700m from the TERAS SUBAK cease of town. This is thru pleasant countryside although the route (it's non a major arterial route) is quite busy. 
Total distance from "start" to "warung" is nigh 1400m. Downhill except the lastly 150m or together with hence - slopes gentle to moderate.
The start of the rails is good sign-posted. The outset few hundred meters similar inwards appearance to the LONG WALK track. About 250m inwards yous plow difficult right together with caput downhill yesteryear a walled religious shrine or similar. Not far yesteryear this the rails turns left i time to a greater extent than together with continues downhill thru some dainty rice growing country. After nigh 400m the wider rails ends...but similar to the DIVERSION, in that location is a much narrower path which continues a brusk distance to where it reaches a creek together with drainage ditch. Here yous should plow left together with move on to walk along the concrete top of the drainage ditch. After nigh 300m......

....you volition run into the edifice top right. I recognized this equally the alone opened upward warung on the LONG WALK track. Near those bushes ahead I constitute a path which led uphill (I intend it may receive got started with a few steps) but yesteryear the warung on this side, where yous tin plow left together with rapidly attain the LONG WALK track. 
It's nigh 1km dorsum to the TERAS SUBAK business office of the hamlet on the LONG WALK track.


GETTING THEREEvery driver inwards the S touting for a fare tin receive got yous upward here. It is such a pop 24-hour interval trip many tin present yous pix of the area. Plenty of tour companies run vans together with coaches to the area. As said before, many receive got JATILUWIH equally business office of a multi-destination tour. It's kinda a natural for people also wanting to run into the LAKE BRATAN/BEDEGUL percentage non also far to the north-east.

Our driver from Sanur approaching the toll booth nigh 3km brusk of JATILUWIH. Cost is 45k + 5k for parking. Keep your ticket - in that location are similar booths at the start of walks: cost 20k but when nosotros showed our ticket the dude waved us past. I gauge van together with coach passengers don't teach an private ticket at the initial toll booth.

We paid 400k for the trip upward from Sanur. I idea this a fleck high but at the fourth dimension I was also lazy to move teach competitive quotes. We arranged for the same driver to come upward up at the cease of our remain together with transfer us dorsum downwards south. I receive got constitute up-country drivers utilisation the "captive market" together with less contest things to accuse outrageous prices.
Trip took 2h 10mins - it's non real far but the traffic for 70% of the trip is horrendous. Btw - the lastly 8km or together with hence leaves the primary arterial route together with takes a side route to JATILUWIH. This is badly broken upward together with real narrow inwards parts, esp. through villages. I don't know how those tourist coach drivers do it. 
From Kuta fourth dimension taken should live nigh the same together with prices similar (although if I had the time, I'm sure I could teach it downwards to 300k each way).


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