Rinca Island

Steep terraced rice fields north of Ubud irrigated by the traditional subak system, with paths dropping into the valley between them.

A temple complex in old forest at the edge of Ubud, home to several hundred long-tailed macaques and three Hindu temples.

A paved ridge path between two river valleys on the edge of town, best walked at sunrise before the heat.

The walled palace of the still-reigning sultan, with open pavilions, court gamelan performances and a museum of royal possessions.

The eighteenth-century royal bathing complex behind the palace, with pools, an underground mosque and tunnels through the old garden.

Borobudur is a ninth-century Buddhist monument built as a stepped stone mandala, with more than 2,600 relief panels and 500 Buddha statues arranged over nine platforms. Visitors climb through the levels as a symbolic path, and access to the upper terraces is now capped and guided to protect the stone. Volcanoes stand on the horizon in every direction.