Walk Bali.
Restore Bali.
Experience Bali as few ever do. Walk with our local guides through rice fields, villages and forests. Share meals and stories with the families we have partnered with. Every journey supports local livelihoods and helps farmers restore the land.
Travel and food should restore what they touch.
Since 2020, we've brought travellers, farmers, schools, hotels and universities together to restore Bali's living landscapes, connecting the food we grow with the way we travel. On our trails, you become part of that work, sharing local meals, staying with families and supporting the farmers caring for the land.
A day on the trail
Walk, share a meal, settle into village life. Each day brings new encounters. You carry a day pack, and we take care of the rest.
Stretch, eat light, walk
We wake with the village, stretch together, share a light breakfast and set off for the next community while the air is still cool.
Arrive and settle in
Your hosts welcome you with a freshly cooked lunch. Put your bag down, settle in and get to know the place you will call home for the night.
Join in
Cook with your hosts, weave bamboo, follow the rice cycle with the farmers, or receive a water blessing from a local priest.
Dinner and time to reflect
We share dinner and gather in a circle to reflect on the day, then fall asleep on an open platform among the trees or the rice fields.
Choose your journey
Compare all trails and dates10 daysThe Astungkara Trail
A 10-day journey to reconnect with nature, community and self.
5 daysHeart of Bali
A transformative 5-day journey of reconnection.
4 daysNorthwest Bali Trail
Four days across northwest Bali, on foot and by boat.
2 daysJungle Bathing
A deep nature cleanse through Bali's last primary forest.
2 daysBalinese Immersion
An invitation to experience what makes Bali the Island of Gods.
2 daysCascade Quest
Waterfalls, jungle flavours and mountain village calm.
1 dayJungle Passage
A rare invitation through Bali's last primary forest.
1 daySacred Waters
A sacred journey through Bali's living culture.
Scroll sideways to see every journey, and find each one on the map.
Your journey supports the people who call Bali home.
Your booking pays our local guides, the families who host you and the farms that feed you. Our impact report follows those payments across 93 trails and 501 pilgrims, from September 2024 to May 2026.
Where your booking goes
Source: Trails Impact Report, July 2026.
Walking lightly on the island
Walking between village stays shapes the footprint of your journey. Below, we compare estimated trail emissions per guest-night and water use per guest-day with published hotel figures.
Carbon: 2025 assessment across 45 departures, using DEFRA, Climatiq, IPCC and WRI Indonesia factors. It covers food, accommodation and supplies on the trail. Our support vehicles add 10.6 kg per guest-night and are left out, as the hotel figures do not count transport either. Water: Trails Impact Report, July 2026, against 800 to 4,000 litres per guest-day in resort tourism.
What pilgrims take home
We read every review to understand what stays with people after the trail. Here are some of the encounters, meals and moments our pilgrims take home.
I found the Bali of old that I was seeking over 10 days immersed in the changing landscape from one coast to another.
Every day brought something unforgettable: waking to the sound of a waterfall, eating passion fruit right off the trail, collecting food from the land for our dinner.
Give yourself some time away from everything, turn your phone to airplane mode, reconnect with nature and yourself.
Your walk is part of something bigger.
Our trails are part of a wider effort to reconnect people with nature and food. Across Astungkara Way, guides, farmers, researchers, schools and hospitality partners work together to restore the landscapes you walk through.
Farmers
338 farmers are making the move to regenerative farming with us. We began with 17 in 2022.
Villages and schools
The families who host you and the forest farmers who feed you are paid directly. Along the trail we are growing a school garden with the students, and Balinese schools visit our farm for free.
Plots in our regenerative rice data bank
We track farming practices, livelihoods and changes in the fields over time, learning with farmers what makes regeneration last.
Hospitality and funders
Hotels support the farmers around them, and Zero Foodprint Asia, Imaginal Seeds and Rikolto stand behind the work.
Guided by the people who live here.
Walk with local guides like Tona, pictured here, and meet the families, farmers and forest guardians who know these landscapes intimately. Their stories bring the journey to life.
Meet the trail team on film
From the fields and the trails
@astungkara.way and @astungkara.trail on Instagram
@astungkara.wayFrom the farms and the fields
@astungkara.trailOn the trail this week
Our vision: a regenerative Bali
Imagine an island where farmers, young people, travellers and hospitality partners restore ecosystems, sustain livelihoods and celebrate culture together.
That is the future we are working towards, one field, one partnership and one journey at a time. A model that can inspire others, and a reason for hope.
Astungkara.