Indonesia Adventure Travel And Tours

A short guide about Adventure travel to Indonesia

Lying on the western rim of the Ring of Fire – Indonesia has more than 400 volcanoes, of which 130 are considered active, as well as many undersea volcanoes. This nation is unbelievably vast providing 108,000km of beaches – so if you’re planning a vacation to Indonesia you’ll find you’re spoilt for choice…

Visit the wild and rugged island of Sumatra; which includes the Riau Islands and Bangka-Belitung. Visit North Sumatra Province for the largest volcanic lake in the world; Lake Toba – here you’ll find the large island Samosir island in it. Plan a tour of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo; uncharted jungles, mighty rivers, home of the orangutan, it’s a paradise for the adventurer.

Tour Java for the capital; Jakarta, and visit the cultural treasures of Borobudur to find the largest Buddhist temple in the world, and Prambanan; for a collection of massive Hindu temples built by the 10th century Mataram Kingdom. Tour Banten for Mount Krakatau and the Ujung Kulon National Park, and if you like volcanoes; than visit Mount Bromo for some of the scariest volcanic scenery on the planet.

Visit the strangely shaped island of Sulawesi for some spectacular scenery and world class diving sites. The Christian town of Manado is famous for its diving, or tour the Tana Toraja Highland famed for their extraordinary funeral rites. Plan your tour to the islands of Nusa Tenggara for Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Komodo and West Timor; these "Southeast Islands" contain scores of ethnic groups, languages and religions, here you’ll find the Komodo National Park and more spectacular diving.

The historic Spice Islands of Maluku have been fought over to this day; largely unexplored and almost unknown to the outside world – Just like Papua; the western half of New Guinea has an almost impenetrable wilderness in one of the remotest places on earth – with Baliem Valley home to the famous penis-gourded Dani warriors.

Tourabout has a range of vacation packages to Indonesia – with well over 230 million people this sleeping giant of Southeast Asia and the largest archipelago in the world straddles the Equator between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.