"JAVA BIKE ADVENTURE"

JAVA BIKE ADVENTURE TOUR - 8 DAYS SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
Short trip to the exotic highlights of east-Java. The greatest adventures are the tours to the 2800 mtr. Ijen volcano. Ijen with the ghostly green glowing lake in his crater, the 35 km long downhill to the ocean and the following trip through the jungle to the lonely turtle beach.Profile-demand Level II


1st Day: ARRIVAL IN DENPASAR
Pick up from Airport Denpasar. There will be enough time for a Welcome-Cocktail, the completion of the bikes and a short trip to the centre of Candi Kuning and the beautiful market.

2nd Day: BALI SEA DOWNHILL
A short and heavy climb at the "Monkey Forest" will bring us to the edge of the Caldera. A last glance to the glittering coastline of the Bali Sea in 1200m hight, and than a nearly 40 km long downhill to the north-coast of Bali through forests, nice villages among beautiful vegetation and rice-terraces. If there is enough time, we will also visit a waterfall.
The Mini-Bus will bring us to the Hotel where you will have time for a swim in the Hotelpool or in the Bali-Sea. At sunset we will admire our next target on the neighbour-island Java!
Depending on the condition of the participants, the tour is variable from 200 to 600 alti-metre.
- Distance: 35-75 km , alti-metre: 200/600 , Coating: asphalt , Length: approx. 6-8 hrs.

3rd Day: OCEAN CROSSING
In the morning you may see the various multi-coloured fishes by diving or snorkeling, in the afternoon we will cross the ocean on a spectacular ferry towards Java! This is the only way to reach the starting point of our biggest adventure during this vacation!
-Distance: 35km, alti-metre: 200 , Coating: asphalt, Bustransfer of the island Java , Lenght: approx 8-10 hrs.

4th Day: UPHILL TO THE " DEVILS MINE "
Only "devil-bikers" are able to make the climb on one day !....... The rest of you will be gathered by our Mini-Bus, which will also keep us company on Java.
44-54 km, 1800-2000 alti-metre, you may even try to dig the cocos-palms out today!!
In the beginning pretty flat, going to be really steep later on, sugar-cane plantations, cocos-palms, jungle, solitary villages up to the peak!.............8 kmdownhill to the high-plain, covered by coffee-plantations and surrounded by volcanos. We have not reached our destination, the camp-ground of the crater, yet. There are still 10 km of climbing through coffee-plantations and wild nature. Now we finally reach the basis camp of the "Devils Mine"! The ones who are still able to can walk up the remaining 400 m to the edge of the smoking volcano, to admire a very special game of nature in the sunset of this beautiful day !
We will finish this day with a barbecue and a bon fire on the campground.
- Distance: 44/54 km variable, alti-metre: 1800/2000, Coating: asphalt, Length: approx. 8 hrs.

5th Day: COCOS CRASH
Smoke on the ghostly green water…………..at sunrise you get the impression to look into a giant cauldron of a witch's kitchen……………..
If you want to experience this view, you have to climb the 400 m to the edge of the crater one hour before sunrise either by bike or hiking! Once at the peak (2250m) you will have the incredible view to the near volcanos Merapi (2800m) and Raung (3322m), which we will enjoy before we will go downhill to reach our target for this day: the ocean!..........Nearly 35 km downhill through jungle, coffee-and cocos-plantations! A short stop at a nature-pool footing a waterfall in the middle of tropic surroundings.
When you are refreshed and have eaten enough to regain your strength we will visit the market in Banyu where you can deal with the natives. Afterwards we will stay for a last time in a hotel for the night.
- Distance: 35 km, alti-metre: +70 , -2250, Coating: 30 km asphalt, 2 km broken stone, 3 km plantation-way,
- Length: approx. 6 hrs.

6th Day: THE JUNGLE-BOOK LIFE
Today we go by bus to the starting point of our long tour to the Turtle Beach and we will say "goodbye" or in Indonesian "sampai jumpa" to civilisation for the rest of our trip!
At the beginning we will have the opportunity to watch the natives produce coffee or cacao and later-on the production of Red Sugar out of cocos-juice.
Our target of the day will be a campground with the opportunity to shower under a waterfall.
There will only be 350 alti-metre and a distance of 10 km on a jungle-trail between start and finish of this daytour, the rest is asphalt and broken stone through plantations of coffee, cacao and indiarubber. We have a break in "TREBLESALA ESTATE" ons of many ex-dutch-coffee-manufacturer and enyoi "Tape-Goreng" with a coffee from the plantaitions. On the peak of the tour we will enjoy the marvellous view back to the mountains of the Raung-Massif. In front of us we will face a very special downhill, passing lianas, ferns and jungle-giants. Shy black monkeys and screaming birds will be our companions on our way down to Turtle Beach. We will put our tents at a swimming bay of the Nationalparc. After sunset we will enjoy grilled fish and happiness at a bon fire.
- Distance: 35/45 km variable, alti-metre: 440 , Coating: 10/20 km asphalt, 15 km broken stone, 10 km jungle-trail.
- Length:6-8 hrs., Bustour approx. 2 hrs.

7th Day: TURTLE TRAIL
A Jeep, good bikes and a very detailed map is absolutely essentiel to find the Turtle Beach on this adventurous tour.......however, we will have all that is needed and at the end of the jungle we will be rewarded with a kilometre-long beach for us only…………….terrific place to relax! Anyway, the way will be quite difficult with some streams as obstacles, kind of difficult coatings, challenging your bike-abilities. There are no bridges or they have already gone in the floods of the rain-season! But as we have grown to a strong team by now we will manage together through all kinds of trouble that might occur! We spend the night in a camp in the Natainalparc nearby the ranger.…………and the one who would like to observe the turtles laying their eggs into the sand has the opportunity this night!
- Distance: 17km, alti-metre: 240, Coating: 10 km plantation ways, 7 km terrible stone piste - Length: 2-3 hrs, bustransfer/ferry to Bali 8 hrs.

8th Day: BACK TO BALI
The monkeys will observe our breakfast out of the trees: "Nasi Goreng" and typical coffee "Java arabica".
Afterwards we will see the approx. 150 little jung turtles go to the sea before we will start on our backtour.
Again we will have streams to cross, make 240 alti-metres of worst stone-piste, the other way today……….but we are pros by now and will manage! The promising views of the great swimming-bays which we will reach shortly will keep us going!
After the relaxing pause for a swim the bus will take us back to Bali. We arrive Kuta around 8 pm.
- Distance: 10 km, alti-metre: 240, Coating: 3 km plantaion ways, 7 km worst stone piste,
- Length: 2-3 hrs, Bustransfer/ferry approx. 8 hrs.


Total kilometres: 211 - 271
Total alti-metres: 3190 - 3390
Length of the tour does not necessarily correspond to time in the saddle!
Suitable for Mountain-bikers
Profile-demand Level II, the 4th day in Level III

Dates 2009:
26.03.-02.04.09

09.04.-16.04.09

26.04.-03.05.09

10.05.-17.05.09

07.06.-14.06.09

16.07.-23.07.09 hight season

02.08.-09.08.09 hight season

20.08.-27.08.09 hight season

08.09.-15.09.09

20.09.-27.09.09

04.10.-11.10.09

18.10.-25.10.09

Special offer 2009: One week extension in Hotel Bali Agung Village (6B/B) To contact this tour operator please use the contact form above. 120,00 /* 170,00 EURO p.person
*high season: 01.07. - 31.08.
**Peakseason: 25.12. - 06.01.
Prolongations possible in all the categories. Please ask.


Price from airport Denpasar/Bali: 990,- EURO , 1.395,- USD , hight season 1090,- EURO , 1.495,- USD

Rent-Bike for tour: 40,-€ , 53,- USD


All the tours can be altered according the condition of the group, there will always be an escorting bus. Who will not be able to spend all the days in the saddle is welcome to take one relaxing day in the bus and enjoy the tour with the friendly native driver - that might be a nice experience as well!

Services included :
Pick up from Airport Denpasar
All transfers in Minibus with aircondition
Transport of the Bikes
4 B/B in in middle-class till upper-class Hotels of European standard
3 nights on campgrounds in doubletents/matrresses/sleeping bags
3 barbecues
Entrance in the Nationalparcs
Ferrytickets

To contact this tour operator please use the contact form next to the map on the right.

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Price/Person: 990,00 EUR
Number of participants 4-8
Duration: 8 Days

Area: INDONESIA BALI & JAVA ISLANDS
Accomodation is included in this tour: 4 B/B in in middle-class till upper-class Hotels of European standard, 3 nights on campgrounds in doubletents/matrresses/sleeping bags, all the equipment from us.

The Guide is able to understand this language also    
   german
   english

Special Hints: 1 week extension in hotel BALI AGUNG VILLAGE for all the tours only 120,00 EUR (6 b/b), high season 1.7.-31.8. 170,00 EURO

edited at 09.01.07 | 04:00 AM
last update 04.03.09 | 05:58 AM

Guide details

Werner Duderstadt

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Vita
"Die Idee "COCOSTRAVEL" kam mir 2001 bei einem superlangen Downhill von einem mächtigen Vulkan auf der Insel Java. Damals war ich bereits zum zweiten Mal für längere Zeit zum Biken mit dem Fahrrad auf den Inseln Bali und Java, aber Cocostravel war nur ein Traum. Dann folgten im Jahr 2002 wieder zwei längere Aufenthalte um die Touren mit dem Bike perfekt zu machen. Zur Seite standen mir Heriyanto mit seinen Freunden auf der schönen Insel Java, Wayan von der " Bali Cycle Federation" zum Radeln auf der geheimnisvollen Insel Bali. Ariani war und ist für die organisatorischen Dinge auf Bali zuständig. Mardi und Wayan begleiten uns mit den Fahrzeugen und sorgen für das leibliche Wohl in den Camps. Das Ergebnis sind nun 7 verschiedene Bike-Touren (8/9/11/14 und 17 Tage), von leicht bis mittelschwer und 7 verschiedene Tages-/Mehrtagestouren (Trekking, Radeln, Schnorcheln), die auf Euch warten. Wer jetzt denkt, das Klima auf diesen Inseln ist zum Radfahren zu heiß, der irrt, denn wir bewegen uns immer in einer gewissen Höhe und oft kommen wir nur abends an den Ozean.

edited at 15.03.06 | 9:58 PM
last update 08.09.09 | 10:14 AM

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