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Uluwatu Tours

The clifftop temple, the six o'clock fire dance, and every fare compared

Uluwatu tours put you on a limestone cliff seventy metres above the Indian Ocean, at a sea temple that has stood on this headland since the 11th century. Every fare here is set out with what it actually covers, so you can see which one buys the six o'clock dance seat.

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11th centuryTemple origins

18:00Kecak dance daily

From $20Per person

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Uluwatu Tours › Tours & Tickets 2026 Updated: 2026-09-08

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Three genuinely different ways onto that clifftop: an evening in a car of your own, a walk-up ticket with the dance seat already held, and a full day down the peninsula. An Uluwatu sunset temple tour is only one of them.

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Private Uluwatu Sunset Tour with Kecak Dance and Dinner

★★★★★ 4.9 (4,364 reviews · 7 hours)

From UbudYour group only

Collect your driver at the hotel in the early afternoon and keep the same car until you are back after dark. The run goes straight for the clifftop: an hour at Pura Luhur Uluwatu as the light drops, the Kecak and Fire Dance at six, then grilled seafood on the sand at Jimbaran Bay. Entrance fees, dance tickets and the dinner are each booking options rather than automatic inclusions, so choose the version you want before you pay. The car seats six at most, which gets you down to the beach quickly once the amphitheatre empties.

Hotel pickup from selected south Bali locations
Uluwatu Temple at sunset, one hour
Kecak and Fire Dance, one hour
Seafood dinner on Jimbaran Beach, one hour

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Uluwatu Temple Entry and Kecak Fire Dance Ticket

★★★★★ 4.9 (1,117 reviews · 2 hours)

Meet at the gateTemple entry includedKecak ticket includedMax 15

Meet a local guide at the temple entrance and walk in with both tickets already bought. Two hours covers the outer courtyards, the cliff path and a seat for the Kecak and Fire Dance in the amphitheatre next door, which is the one thing the gate sells separately and the one that sells out. Nothing about the day depends on a car, so it suits you if you are already on the Bukit or happy to arrange your own ride down. At two hours it is an Uluwatu half day tour in the literal sense, and it begins at the temple gate rather than at a hotel door.

Meet your guide at the temple entrance
Collect your temple entry and dance tickets
Guided walk through the clifftop temple
Kecak and Fire Dance in the amphitheatre

From $28 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

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Best value

Bali: Full-Day Private or Shared Uluwatu Highlights Tour

★★★★★ 4.7 (1,171 reviews · 8-10 hours)

South Bali pickupTemple entry includedKecak ticket included

Five stops fill the day, running down the peninsula from the Water Blow at Nusa Dua to the cliff at Uluwatu. Garuda Wisnu Kencana gets an hour, Melasti Beach another, and the last two are the temple and the six o'clock fire dance, with both entry tickets in the fare. Allow eight to ten hours depending on traffic, and choose a private car or a shared seat when you book. Meals are the one thing left out unless you add them, so bring cash for lunch at the statue.

Water Blow at Nusa Dua, 45 minutes
Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, one hour
Melasti Beach, one hour
Uluwatu Temple, forty minutes
Kecak Fire Dance at sunset, one hour
Drop-off in Kuta or your hotel

From $20 per person

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Best Guides

Local driver-guides who know which part of the amphitheatre catches the sunset, and who keep the macaques off your sunglasses. Travellers name them by name in review after review, and that is the recommendation you should be reading.

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Every Uluwatu reservation made through this page can be cancelled in full up to 24 hours before it starts, at no charge. You are not charged until the operator confirms, and several will refund from their side if the weather turns.

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Experience of a Lifetime

You get a sea temple on a cliff seventy metres above the Indian Ocean, and an hour of chanting and fire as the sun goes down behind the stage. It is the one evening on Bali you will still be describing when you are home.

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All Uluwatu Tours & Tickets

Evenings timed to the dance, full days down the Bukit, beach-hopping runs and two adventure trips behind the cliffs. That is the whole spread of Uluwatu tours and tickets, and every card tells you what your fare covers before you choose.

Uluwatu Sunset Tour: Kecak and Fire Dance with Jimbaran Dinner

★★★★★ 4.7 (707 reviews · 6-7 hours)

From DenpasarTemple entry includedKecak ticket includedMeal included

Pickup comes to your hotel or villa anywhere across the south, and the fare covers every ticket and the meal at the end of it. An hour on the clifftop, an hour at the Kecak and Fire Dance, then two hours over dinner at Jimbaran Beach makes this the least rushed of the evening runs. Vegetarian and non-seafood menus are available if you say so when you book, and the departure time bends to what you ask for. Petrol, parking, taxes and an English-speaking driver-guide are all inside the price.

From $65 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

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Uluwatu: Mud ATV Quad Bike Adventure Guided Tour

★★★★★ 4.7 (497 reviews · 2 hours)

At UluwatuMeal included

Kit up at the venue behind Uluwatu, take the safety briefing and spend an hour to ninety minutes on a quad through mud, trees and village track. Lunch, coconut water, all the equipment and the operator's insurance are in the fare, and there are lockers and a shower for afterwards, which you will want. Ride solo from twelve or share a machine on the tandem option; the venue's swing is a paid extra rather than part of the ride. This ATV tour Uluwatu keeps well away from the temple, so plan it for the morning.

From $38 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

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Private Tour: Uluwatu Temple & Southern Bali Highlights

★★★★★ 4.9 (431 reviews · 8-10 hours)

From UbudTemple entry includedYour group only

Longer at the temple than any other run down here: two full hours on the clifftop, with ninety minutes on Pandawa Beach before it. Fees and taxes are covered, and the Kecak performance and the Jimbaran dinner are add-ons you pick at booking rather than fixed parts of the day. Your driver keeps an air-conditioned minivan for you alone, infant seats are available, and the listing asks for moderate fitness because of the steps and the cliff path. Alcohol is the only thing sold separately, and lunch is not included.

From $45 per person

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Private Tour Bali Beaches and Uluwatu Temple with Dinner

★★★★★ 4.9 (407 reviews · 8-10 hours)

From KutaTemple entry includedKecak ticket includedYour group only

Padang Padang first, then the temple, then Pandawa and Melasti, an hour at each and the whole thing in a private car from Kuta. Every entrance ticket and the dinner are inside the fare, and the operator stages the Kecak and Fire Dance at Melasti rather than at the temple to keep the day out of the worst traffic. Bring a towel and a change of clothes if you plan to swim, since four of the six stops are beaches. Pickup from the Ubud or Gianyar side carries a small extra charge, stated on the listing.

From $51 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

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Full Day All Inclusive South Bali Uluwatu Private Tour

★★★★★ 4.9 (171 reviews · 8 hours)

From DenpasarTemple entry includedKecak ticket includedMeal included

Three hours at Garuda Wisnu Kencana is what makes this day different from the rest, and it comes with the Water Blow, Tanah Barak, Pandawa Beach, the temple and the fire dance either side of it. Entrance fees including the Kecak ticket, an Indonesian lunch and a bottle of water per person are all covered, so the only cash you need is for anything you buy yourself. A private car with air conditioning and an English-speaking driver runs the eight hours. Vegetarian food is available if you ask when booking.

From $75 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

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Bali Beaches Hopping - Uluwatu Temple

★★★★★ 4.8 (124 reviews · 8 hours)

From UbudTemple entry extraYour group only

Four beaches and a temple, at a pace that gives Nusa Dua three hours and Geger two before it turns south. Padang Padang gets an hour and Uluwatu two, which is longer on the clifftop than most full days manage. Read the fare carefully: hotel pickup, the private car and the fuel are in it, while beach and temple entry tickets, food and any watersports are not, so carry rupiah. Bring a towel, sun cream and a change of clothes, because your day here is built around swimming rather than sightseeing.

From $32 per person

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Uluwatu Sunset, Kecak Dance and Jimbaran Seafood Dinner

★★★★★ 4.8 (92 reviews · 7-9 hours)

From SeminyakKecak ticket extraMax 10

Eight stops make this the longest sweep of the southern coast, from Kuta Beach through Nusa Dua, Geger, Padang Padang and Suluban to the temple and the amphitheatre. The fare buys a driver-guide, a private vehicle, hotel pickup and the operator's public liability cover, and it stops there: the Kecak ticket, food and drinks are all listed as extras. Budget for the dance and for dinner on Jimbaran Bay at the end, and you will still have seen more of the Bukit than any other run manages. Ten travellers maximum, two minimum.

From $76 per person

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Paragliding Tandem Flight in Pandawa & Uluwatu with Pilot

★★★★★ 4.9 (66 reviews · 5 hours)

BenoaMax 3

Fly the southern cliffs strapped to a certified tandem pilot, with the launch above Pandawa and the coast toward Uluwatu underneath you. The safety briefing, all the equipment, insurance and GoPro photographs and video are in the price, and hotel pickup is an option you can add. It is quoted per group of up to three, so it works out well for a couple and awkwardly for a solo flyer. If wind or weather grounds the flight, even after pickup, the operator refunds the whole booking or moves you to another day.

From $35 per group, up to 3

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

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Tanah Lot and Uluwatu Temple Tour - Bali Full Day Sightseeing Tours

★★★★★ 4.6 (65 reviews · 11-12 hours)

From DenpasarTemple entry includedKecak ticket includedYour group only

Taman Ayun opens the day, then Tanah Lot on its offshore rock, then south for Padang Padang, the clifftop temple, the fire dance and dinner at Jimbaran. All entrance tickets and the Kecak ticket are in the fare; the set lunch and set seafood dinner come in if you select that option at booking. Eleven to twelve hours is a long day, and the driver will shape the departure time around what you want. Dress code is smart casual, and vegetarian or non-seafood menus are there for the asking.

From $100 per person

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Private Full-Day Tour: Tanah Lot and Uluwatu Temple Tour

★★★★★ 5 (4 reviews · 11-12 hours)

From DenpasarTemple entry includedKecak ticket includedYour group only

Two sunset temples in one day, which is the only way to see both without giving up an evening. The order runs Taman Ayun, Tanah Lot, Padang Padang, Uluwatu, the Kecak and Fire Dance and Jimbaran Bay, an hour at each, in a car nobody else shares. Every entrance ticket and the dance ticket are covered, with the set lunch and seafood dinner as a booking option. The operator can cancel for bad weather, which on an eleven-hour coastal day is worth knowing before you fix your date.

From $100 per person

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The destination

About the Uluwatu Headland

Pura Luhur Uluwatu sits at Pecatu, on the southwest tip of the Bukit Peninsula, and you meet it on a limestone cliff about seventy metres above open ocean. Its origins run back to the 11th century, and in the 16th the priest Dang Hyang Nirartha chose this headland as the place of his moksha, which is where the honorific in its name comes from. It is one of six sanctuaries holding the island's spiritual balance, and it guards the southwest.

History

Founded in the 11th century and associated with Mpu Kuturan, then raised to its present standing by Dang Hyang Nirartha four hundred years later. One of Bali's six sad kahyangan temples, and still a working one: its own community holds a piodalan here on the 210-day Balinese calendar rather than the Gregorian one.

Access

Open 07:00 to 19:00 daily. A foreign adult pays IDR 60,000 and a child IDR 40,000 since January 2026, and the sarong you must wear is included. The Kecak seat is bought separately and sells out. Be through the gate by four if you want both, because the amphitheatre fills from half past.

Things to Do

Suluban Beach is five minutes away through a cave passage, Padang Padang ten, and Melasti and Pandawa sit at the bottom of roads cut through thirty metres of white cliff. Garuda Wisnu Kencana is twenty-five minutes off, and Jimbaran Bay half an hour, where the seafood grills put tables on the sand.

The tiered meru roofs of Pura Luhur Uluwatu at the very edge of the cliff

The Kecak and Fire Dance, with the fire ring lit in the clifftop amphitheatre

The passage through the rock that leads down onto the sand at Suluban Beach

What you will see

Named Highlights of an Uluwatu Temple Tour

Six things worth walking to on your hour up there, and one you should keep your sunglasses well away from.

The candi bentar split gateOne carved tower cut in two and drawn apart, so you walk in between the halves of a single thing.
The northern cliff pathSeveral hundred metres along the rim, and the one place the temple photographs with open ocean behind it.
The Kecak and Fire DanceYou watch seventy men chant the rhythm with no gamelan behind them, around a ring of fire, at six every evening.
Seventy metres of raised reefThe whole Bukit is coral limestone that came out of the sea, which is why the rock under your feet is pale and full of shell.
The macaquesA wild troop that has learned what you are carrying. Zip your bag before the gate and they become the best free entertainment here.
Suluban Beach, five minutes awayYou reach the sand through a cave passage in the base of the cliff, and the tide closes it twice a day.

Plan your visit

Everything You Need Before You Go

Getting thereTickets and hoursThe danceWhen to goWith children

Getting there

There is no railway anywhere on Bali, so every arrival is by road. Jimbaran is half an hour away, Kuta about an hour, Ubud closer to two — and between four and six everyone is heading for the same performance, so add thirty minutes to whatever an app tells you.

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Tickets and hours

Open 07:00 to 19:00, every day. A foreign adult pays IDR 60,000 and a child IDR 40,000, and the sarong you have to wear is inside that price. The rate rose on 1 January 2026, which is why so many pages still print less.

Hours, fees and access

The dance

Performances at 18:00 and 19:00 in an amphitheatre beside the temple, about an hour each, with the ticket sold separately from admission. Take the six o'clock: the sun sets during it in every month of the year.

Sunset tours and the dance

When to go

It is 29 to 32°C all year, so the rain does the work. August and September are the driest and clearest; December and January bring the heaviest rain and the latest sunsets. The cliff path has almost no shade.

Weather month by month

With children

It works well from about seven upward: a short walk, an hour of fire and story with no dialogue to follow, and monkeys to watch from a safe distance. The 19:00 finish is the thing to plan around.

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Do You Need a Guided Tour at All?

Not always, and it is worth saying so. If you are staying on the Bukit, in Jimbaran or in Nusa Dua, you can drive down, buy Uluwatu tickets at the window for IDR 60,000 and a dance seat for about IDR 150,000, and walk in. That visit costs you roughly IDR 210,000 a head and nothing else.

What Uluwatu guided tours actually solve is the road and the seat. The performance is at a fixed six o'clock, the amphitheatre is unreserved, and its box office runs out on busy nights — and the drive back after several hundred people leave at once is the part nobody plans for. A Bali Uluwatu sunset tour that holds the seat and keeps the car waiting starts at a few dollars more than the ticket alone, which is the whole of the argument.

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Which Uluwatu Tour Is Right for You?

Sorted by rating against review volume, so you can read down it. The Tanah Lot and Uluwatu tour options sit at the bottom because they run to twelve hours, not because they are worse than what is above them.

Tour	Length	At the temple	From	Best for
Private Uluwatu Sunset Tour with Kecak Dance and Dinner	7 hours	1 hour	From $31 per person	Couples who want the evening handled and the car to themselves	Book
Uluwatu Temple Entry and Kecak Fire Dance Ticket	2 hours	2 hours	From $28 per person	Anyone already on the Bukit who just needs the two tickets	Book
Bali: Full-Day Private or Shared Uluwatu Highlights Tour	8-10 hours	40 minutes	From $20 per person	First-time visitors covering the whole peninsula on one budget	Book
Uluwatu Sunset Tour: Kecak and Fire Dance with Jimbaran Dinner	6-7 hours	1 hour	From $65 per person	Travellers who want dinner and every ticket inside one fare	Book
Uluwatu: Mud ATV Quad Bike Adventure Guided Tour	2 hours	—	From $38 per person	Active groups after a muddy morning nowhere near a temple	Book
Private Tour: Uluwatu Temple & Southern Bali Highlights	8-10 hours	2 hours	From $45 per person	Visitors who want two unhurried hours on the clifftop itself	Book
Private Tour Bali Beaches and Uluwatu Temple with Dinner	8-10 hours	1 hour	From $51 per person	Beach days from Kuta with swimming built into the route	Book
Full Day All Inclusive South Bali Uluwatu Private Tour	8 hours	1 hour	From $75 per person	Anyone who wants real time at Garuda Wisnu Kencana as well	Book
Bali Beaches Hopping - Uluwatu Temple	8 hours	2 hours	From $32 per person	Swimmers happy to pay their own entry at each stop	Book
Uluwatu Sunset, Kecak Dance and Jimbaran Seafood Dinner	7-9 hours	1 hour	From $76 per person	Sightseers who want the most coast and will buy extras	Book
Paragliding Tandem Flight in Pandawa & Uluwatu with Pilot	5 hours	—	From $35 per group, up to 3	Couples or trios splitting one per-group fare for a flight	Book
Tanah Lot and Uluwatu Temple Tour - Bali Full Day Sightseeing Tours	11-12 hours	1 hour	From $100 per person	Long-day travellers set on seeing both sunset sea temples	Book
Private Full-Day Tour: Tanah Lot and Uluwatu Temple Tour	11-12 hours	1 hour	From $100 per person	Groups wanting Tanah Lot and Uluwatu without sharing a car	Book

Suta put us facing the stage with the sun going down over the Indian Ocean behind it, which made every photograph.Aloke R., July 2026

Ketut Putra kept the monkeys off us, found us good seats for the fire dance and got us out early enough to eat in peace.Barbara C., August 2025

It is first come first served, and far more seats were sold than there were places. The dance itself is worth watching.Mark H., April 2025

What to expect

How the Evening Works

Pick your fare

Compare what each one covers for you — entry, the dance seat, dinner — before you look at the price.

Get collected

Most trips take you from your own hotel across the south; one meets you at the temple gate instead.

Walk the clifftop

An hour gives you the split gate, the courtyards and the northern path, with the light already falling.

Take a seat by 16:30

The amphitheatre is unreserved and it fills. The upper northern rows put the sunset behind the stage.

Six o'clock

An hour of chanting and fire, and then seafood on the sand at Jimbaran if your fare includes it.

Traveller reviews

Uluwatu Tours Reviews

Travellers' own words after their own evening on the cliff, with the stars each of them gave. The mixed ones are here too, because a three-star about the seating tells you more about six o'clock than a page of praise.

★★★★★

Private Uluwatu Sunset Tour with Kecak Dance and Dinner

Suta put us facing the stage with the sun going down over the Indian Ocean behind it, which made every photograph. He had plenty of practical tips as well, and the seafood at Jimbaran finished the evening properly.

Aloke R. · Two travellers · July 2026

★★★★★

Private Tour Bali Beaches and Uluwatu Temple with Dinner

We came over from Australia and took the whole family. Okta drove us, knew every stretch of coast we stopped on and kept up a running commentary the kids actually listened to. Easy company for a long day.

Sharee D. · Family from Australia · March 2026

★★★☆☆

Uluwatu Temple Entry and Kecak Fire Dance Ticket

The view from the cliff is as good as everyone says. Do know that the temple's inner area is not open to visitors, and that you may be standing in strong heat while the amphitheatre fills.

Jiaxi S. · Solo traveller · May 2026

★★★★★

Bali: Full-Day Private or Shared Uluwatu Highlights Tour

Widi looked after us all day and talked us through each stop. The cultural park and the temple were both worth the drive, and his advice about the monkeys was worth taking. Listen to your guide on that.

Lorna · United Kingdom · September 2026

★★★★★

Bali: Full-Day Private or Shared Uluwatu Highlights Tour

A good day out with Komang. We got to every place the description promised and saw a lot of the south of the island in one go.

Mateusz · Poland · September 2026

★★★★★

Uluwatu: Mud ATV Quad Bike Adventure Guided Tour

An hour and a half on the quads with a guide to ourselves, and we were allowed to actually ride. Friendly crew, and the photographs they take are fairly priced if you want them.

Mungiovi · Belgium · September 2026

★★★★★

Uluwatu: Mud ATV Quad Bike Adventure Guided Tour

They hand you boots, towels and a shower afterwards, which you will need. There is a drink on the break and lunch at the end, both in the price. Beer costs a little extra.

Stefano · Italy · August 2026

★★★★★

Paragliding Tandem Flight in Pandawa & Uluwatu with Pilot

Tian sorted the registration in minutes and told us when to arrive for the best wind. The flight ran fifteen to twenty minutes over that coastline and the GoPro footage they hand over afterwards is genuinely good.

Nynoshka · United Arab Emirates · August 2026

★★★☆☆

Uluwatu Sunset Tour: Kecak and Fire Dance with Jimbaran Dinner

No complaint about the guide, who explained everything, and the fire dance itself is worth watching. The seating was the problem. It is first come first served, far more seats were sold than there were places, and the ushers packed us in tight in real heat.

Mark H. · Two travellers · April 2025

★★★★★

Uluwatu Temple Entry and Kecak Fire Dance Ticket

The meeting instructions came through straight after booking, with photographs of the signs to look for, so finding Kadek Pedro at the entrance took no time. He filled in the history of the temple grounds as we walked.

Emily N. · Friends · May 2026

★★★★★

Uluwatu Sunset, Kecak Dance and Jimbaran Seafood Dinner

Made knew Kuta, Nusa Dua, Geger, Padang Padang, Suluban, Uluwatu and Jimbaran well enough to give us longer at the good ones and move us quickly past the rest. Dinner by the water at the end was the right way to finish.

Audrey B. · Group · August 2019

★★★★☆

Tanah Lot and Uluwatu Temple Tour - Bali Full Day Sightseeing Tours

A very long day, and we enjoyed it. Three temples, a good lunch and dinner on the sand at the end. The performance was the one part that did not land for us.

Timothy S. · Two travellers · May 2025

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

How much do Uluwatu tours cost?

From $20 per person for a full day down the peninsula with temple and dance entry in the fare. A private car for the evening starts at about $31, and the long two-temple days that add Tanah Lot reach $100. Every figure is the operator's own starting price and every one of them refunds in full up to 24 hours ahead.

Do the tours include the temple entrance ticket?

Some do, some do not, and a few make it a paid option you choose at booking. Each listing states its own position, so read the fare before you pay. Where entry is left out the operator expects you to buy it at the ticket window, which takes cash.

What time does the Kecak and Fire Dance start?

Six o'clock, every evening. The Kecak and Fire Dance is staged in an open-air amphitheatre beside the temple, and a second performance follows at seven. Six is the one worth having: the sun goes down between about 18:08 in May and 18:46 in January, so it always sets during that show and never during the later one.

Is the dance ticket included in the temple entrance fee?

No. Admission and the performance are sold at separate windows, and a dance seat runs about IDR 150,000 for an adult and IDR 75,000 for a child. The box office opens in the late afternoon and sells out on busy nights, which is the main reason people book a trip that has already secured the seat.

What are Uluwatu Temple's opening hours?

07:00 to 19:00 daily, Bali time. Be through the gate by 18:00 if you also want the dance, because the amphitheatre fills long before the performance starts. Early morning is the quietest hour of the day on the cliff path.

How much is the entrance fee in 2026?

IDR 60,000 for a foreign adult and IDR 40,000 for a foreign child; Indonesian visitors pay IDR 40,000 and IDR 30,000. The rates went up on 1 January 2026, which is why so many English-language pages still quote IDR 30,000 — those Uluwatu ticket prices are the old ones. Parking is IDR 4,000 for a car and IDR 2,000 for a motorbike.

What should I wear at the temple?

Knees covered, and the sarong and sash that do it are handed to you at the gate and are already inside the ticket price. There is nothing to hire and nothing to buy. Flat shoes make the cliff path easier, and something with a zip keeps your phone away from the monkeys.

Do I need to book in advance?

Yes, particularly for the evening. The amphitheatre has a fixed number of seats and the box office runs out on busy nights, so book a few days ahead between June and September and 24 to 48 hours ahead the rest of the year. Booking a trip that holds the seat takes that risk off you entirely.

Can I cancel my booking?

Yes. Every trip listed here refunds in full up to 24 hours before it starts, at no charge, so an Uluwatu booking made early costs you nothing if the plan changes. Some operators can also cancel from their side for bad weather, and those refund in full as well.

How long does a tour take?

Anything from two hours to twelve. The guided gate ticket is two hours, the adventure trips behind the cliffs are two to five, the evening runs with dinner take six to nine, and the days that add Tanah Lot run eleven to twelve. Pick the length first and the rest of the choice gets much smaller.

Where do the tours pick you up?

Most collect you at your hotel or villa: Kuta, Seminyak, Jimbaran, Denpasar, Nusa Dua and Ubud all appear across the listings. One meets you at the temple entrance instead, which suits anyone already staying on the Bukit. Pickup from the Ubud side sometimes carries a small extra charge, which is stated on the booking page before you pay.

Are the monkeys a problem?

They are practised thieves and they go for sunglasses, hats and phones. Put everything in a zipped bag before you walk through the gate and you will be fine. Travellers say again and again that having a guide beside them is what stopped anything going.

Can I visit Uluwatu Temple without a tour?

Yes, and plenty of people do. Drive, ride-hail or scooter down to Pecatu, pay at the ticket window and buy a dance seat at the box office beside the amphitheatre. What a guided trip buys you is the seat already held, the traffic handled and somebody who knows which way the cliff path runs when it is crowded.

Is Uluwatu Temple wheelchair accessible?

No. Every operator here says the same, and the site is a clifftop with steps, uneven stone and a sloping path along the edge. Some listings also ask for a moderate level of fitness. The amphitheatre itself is tiered seating reached on foot.

What is the best time of day to visit Uluwatu?

Late afternoon, arriving around four. That gives you the cliff path in soft light, a dance ticket before the queue builds and a seat before six. Go at seven in the morning instead if you want the place close to empty and are happy to miss the performance.

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