{"id":971,"date":"2010-07-28T04:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/?p=971"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:19:13","slug":"a-day-trip-to-northen-part-of-bali-part-1-mundul-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/a-day-trip-to-northen-part-of-bali-part-1-mundul-waterfall\/","title":{"rendered":"(Part 1) : A day trip to Northern part of Bali &#8211; MUNDUK WATERFALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dcbf41adbfce20b42ced934b3586d115\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- RB_Square_Right_Top_Post -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5499563635738934\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7970629133\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; <em>There are still many places in Bali I have not yet discovered and explored despite the fact that I&#8217;ve been living is this sun, sea, surf island for about 9,5 years. This is a serial of 3 blog posts of <strong>A Day trip to Northern part of Bali <\/strong>(trilogy!). Written <strong>NOT<\/strong> in an order of where to visit first, although for your easy guide, I will give an itinerary* that most people usually does. Enjoy!<\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Waterfall-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-977\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Waterfall icon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Waterfall-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>If you are going up to North of Bali, to the highland village of <a title=\"Bedugul\" href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Bedugul\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bedugul<\/strong><\/a>, that is famous with its Botanical Parc (<strong>Kebun Raya Bedugul<\/strong>) and <strong>Ulun Danu Temple<\/strong> on <strong>Beratan Lake<\/strong>, your journey can continue up to <strong>Buleleng<\/strong>, to the splash spot of the area : <strong>Munduk Waterfall<\/strong>. This is not only a visit to a beautiful waterfall place in Bali, but also a short hiking deep into the rain tropical forest of Munduk Village. Very recommended for Bali visitors after 4 or 5 days with skin tanning beach days and Seminyak night life, you should definitely schedule a day trip to Singaraja area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wanagiri-gapura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-976\" title=\"Wanagiri gapura\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wanagiri-gapura.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wanagiri-gapura.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wanagiri-gapura-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Munduk is a quite village much different from\u00a0 the south of Bali area situated at 1,500 meters above sea level, at the Northen part of Bali, Buleleng. That&#8217;s 2 hours drive from Denpasar. After passing Ulun Danu Temple in Bedugul, turn left at <strong>Wanagiri Village<\/strong>, Munduk is about 5 km downhill from here. A special small parking lot next to a small &#8216;warung&#8217; is available right on the steep hill road of Munduk village. Be careful when you cross the road as cars and motorbike are speeding up as they enter to an extreme up hill and down hill road at the same time, from 2 ways. Waiting for you crossing the road (slowwwly&#8230;) is almost impossible at that speed level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hill-road-munduk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-973\" title=\"hill road munduk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hill-road-munduk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hill-road-munduk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hill-road-munduk-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The path way as you enter Munduk rain forest is a mix between natural trail road and paved way. You will have occasionally to share the small path with the villagers on motorbike..Interesting hiking type!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trail-road-munduk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-974\" title=\"trail-road-munduk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trail-road-munduk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trail-road-munduk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trail-road-munduk-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/villagers-motorbike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-975\" title=\"villagers-motorbike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/villagers-motorbike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/villagers-motorbike.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/villagers-motorbike-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You will be captured by the beauty of green lush tropical forest across the hill, with coffee and clove plantation around you. Stop by for a photographic moment! I was really in the middle of a pretty forest jewels having seen these giant bamboo trees, tropical colorful flowers and plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-forrest-jewel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-978\" title=\"munduk-forrest-jewel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-forrest-jewel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-forrest-jewel.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-forrest-jewel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-forrest-jewel-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To get to the waterfall is actually easy, as they made the sign boards clearly enough to follow. But! at one intersection <a title=\"Bali Web Developer &amp; Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\" target=\"_blank\">Benny<\/a> and I got lost into another part of the forest area where it led us to a village\u00a0 with no tourists\/visitors but us..and the sound of\u00a0 the pigs grunt! We actually missed one (OBVIOUS!) sign! haha..So I think I should just post some pics here just to give you a guidance, in case you giggle too much with your friends (like I did) you didn&#8217;t notice the sign boards to the waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-1st-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-981\" title=\"waterfall-1st-sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-1st-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-1st-sign.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-1st-sign-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-979\" title=\"waterfall-sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-sign.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/waterfall-sign-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-980\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/this-way.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-980\" title=\"this-way\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/this-way.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/this-way.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/this-way-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To the right..to the right&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just right after you did a wooden board surfing to cross the wet watery soil, there will be a local people sitting on a plastic chair taking Rp 5,000 (50 cents) of entrance fee to the waterfall. The ticket guy was away when we got there, so the waterfall visit was free of charge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/woodenboard-surfing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-982\" title=\"woodenboard-surfing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/woodenboard-surfing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/woodenboard-surfing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/woodenboard-surfing-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I noticed this is one of favorite destination for french and taiwanese tourists, with a big difference of attitude. The french tourists only took a picture of the waterfall, enjoy the splash, then leave. The taiwanesses took half an hour to change 20 (almost the same) poses of 2 victory fingers under the waterfall, one by one, and there were 4 of them&#8230;and that&#8217;s the only reason why <a title=\"Bart's tweeting!\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bartcatapult\" target=\"_blank\">Bart<\/a> and I had to spend more time just to wait for them to finish their victory and &#8216;vogue&#8217; pose so we could take ours&#8230;*sigh*..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cool-waterfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-983\" title=\"cool-waterfall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cool-waterfall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cool-waterfall.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cool-waterfall-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You will be as happy as I was when the rainbow struck across the water right under the waterfall, leaving a shinning reflection on the river beneath it. Who wouldn&#8217;t be jaw dropped when you see this beauty of nature moment..<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-waterfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-984\" title=\"munduk-waterfall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-waterfall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-waterfall.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/munduk-waterfall-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*<strong>An ideal and strongly suggest itinerary for a day trip to Bedugul &amp; Buleleng area would be<\/strong> :<br \/>\n&#8211; Bedugul\u00a0 : Visit Ulun Danu Temple, then Botanical Garden.<br \/>\n&#8211; Munduk Waterfall.<br \/>\n&#8211; Stop at the highest point at Wanagiri Village, Sukasada sub-district, Buleleng,\u00a0 at this open air sitting area overlooking 2 magnificent twin lakes of Tamblingan and Buyan.<br \/>\n&#8211; On the way back to Bedugul, a MUST visit to : Bedugul Market where &#8216;warung&#8217;\/stalls displaying an array of fresh colorful fruits and vegetable, harvested from Bedugul land itself. Why I put Bedugul Market at the end, because shopping should be on your last itinerary after other nature spot destinations &#8211;\u00a0 that&#8217;s if you don&#8217;t want to loose to much time between bargaining and spending your money \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!--CusAds-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; There are still many places in Bali I have not yet discovered and explored despite the fact that I&#8217;ve been living is this sun, sea, surf island for about 9,5 years. This is a serial of 3 blog posts of A Day trip to Northern part of Bali (trilogy!). 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