Mayong Cultural Walk

There are many options to make a trekking through the ricefields, they are offered everywhere. One of those options is the Mayong Cultural Walk organised by Putu and Ria.

Mayong is a village located in the north of Bali (30-40 minutes drive from Lovina), the people of the village earn their living on their well-kept rice fields and farms and live from growing the crops, but it is also tourism here developed somewhat resulting in walks through the area of rice fields and local villages.

You are supposed to be at Putu and Ria around 9 am, they live in the nearby village of Busungiu. If desired, there is still time for coffee and after coffee it is time to start the walk that does not start at the house but in a different area so you have to drive to the starting point.
It is a walk of 2.5 hours and is 4 km and is pretty easy, there are a few points where it is less accessible, but with some help it will work in most cases. It is often a concrete path and sometimes there is height difference and then it can go up or down a bit steeply.
It is a beautiful area you walk through a forest area and this is surrounded by rice fields, this is really a walk where you walk through the rice fields.

The surroundings are beautiful and everywhere you look you see the green rice fields, the high palm trees and every now and then you walk past a house where you find some cows under a roof, it really gives you the feeling of the local life of Bali.

As indicated earlier there is also some height difference and normally you would make a staircase there but that is not convenient as this road is also often used to drive the motorcycle, so you have to be careful when going down here (especially if it which is wet).

Through the rice fields run many streams this is to keep the water circulating and to keep the ricefields wet and is called the Subak method.

Again, it is a beautiful walk and the area is absolutely gorgeous.

When you return to the house, a tasteful lunch is served, cooked by Ria, the wife of Putu which you can put together yourself because when you make a reservation Putu asks what you want to eat and that can be anything (as long as it is Indonesian).
The costs for the walk are Rp 300,000 per person including lunch.
The driver can also join for the lunch and does not have to pay for it.