Bali with Kids' top five family-friendly Bali activities: Bali Treetop Adventure Park, Bali Fun World, Bali Bird Park and Reptile Park, Trekking with Jean of the Jungle & The King's Swimming Pool.

Are your restless children preventing you from thoroughly enjoying your Bali vacation? Check out these top five activities recommended in Bali with Kids, a new guidebook which promises a fun-filled vacation for everyone in the family.

Bali Treetop Adventure Park Kids will love swinging among trees and trying their hands and feet at 65 different outdoor activities which involve a suspended bridge, spider nets, Tarzan jumps, a flying-fox and flying swings. Activities are colour-coded circuits according to the level of difficulty and ranges from a short yellow circuit for easy tasks to a more intimidating black adrenaline circuit requiring you to leap 20 metres high. The Park also boasts beautiful Lake Bratan which you can enjoy on a leisurely boat ride, or on a more adventurous Jet Ski or parasail. Tel: +62 361 8520680, www.balitreetop.com
     Bali Fun World is Indonesia's largest indoor playground with 2,000 metres square of space filled with fun and safe play equipments. Kids will have endless fun at the various stations like the 9m climbing wall, slides, labyrinth and ball pool or by wearing inflatable sumo costumes to participate in a fun wrestling match. Younger children will enjoy the mini slides, trampoline, swings, obstacle course, bouncy castle, rocking animals, mini cars and bikes and soft play toys, while older kids can spend their time on the gladiator fight, rodeo bull ride, giant boxing, bungee-trampolines, basketball hoops and air hockey tables.
Tel: +62 361 294 924/ 81 2286 0760, www.balifunworld.com
     Bali Bird Park and Reptile Park Set in a beautiful and very well maintained garden, the bird park is home to more than 1,000 birds from all over the archipelago ready to fascinate children with their shape, colours and curious behaviour. Get acquainted with birds of paradise, cockatoos, Javanese Hawk and Serpent Eagles, and laugh as naughty pelicans pinch their feeder's bottom if they don't get enough to eat. Join in bird feeding sessions and stay for the flight bird shows. If your child likes creepy crawlies, the Reptile Park next door is perfect. See and hold lizards, snakes and other scaly creatures! Tel: +62 361 299352
Email: sales@bali-bird-park.com, www.bali-bird-park.com
     Trekking with Jean of the Jungle Venture into unknown jungle terrain and the countryside with experienced trek guide Jean whose expeditions are known to be physical, full of discovery, fun and educational. Set out at 7am and absorb the magnificent countryside. See valleys, jungle, rice fields, rivers, villages and even walk on a bridge that leads to nowhere. Kids will love running through the rice fields, crossing rivers, jumping in the mud and seeing and learning about jungle animals. Choose from 15 different treks and three levels of difficulty. Treks can last from two to six hours. A notable kid's favourite is the "Wet Monkey" trek. Tel: +62 81805680662, www.bali-trek-jean-de-la-jungle.com. Email: jeandelajungle@yahoo.fr
     The King's Swimming Pool Set on the East Coast of Bali, Tirta Gangga is a stunning palace and home to the swimming pool of the kings. Kids will love jumping on the stepping-stones that lace a series of ponds brimming with huge koi fish. They can also take a refreshing dip in two large swimming pools filled with fresh spring water straight from the slopes of Mt Agung and towered by an enormous sacred Banyan tree. Feeling peckish? Head to nearby Tirta Ayu restaurant for authentic Balinese specialties. Tel: +62 81558001934, www.hoteltirtagangga.com

Bali with Kids features more than 300 kid-friendly places plus unusual and unforgettable activities for the entire family including long time favourites and the latest venues. Pick up a copy for S$29.50 at the Hollandse Club, Singapore or order online at www.baliwithkids.com. An e-book version is also available at www.lulu.com. For more updates, subscribe to the free monthly newsletter at www.baliwithkids.com.


Posted Aug 2011