Did the Batur day as a private car with two teenagers who do not do mornings. Pick up at 07:00 in Seminyak, back at the hotel 18:40. Eleven and a half hours door to door and roughly four of them in the car, which is the bit nobody mentions in advance. What earned its place in the bag: 1. A jumper each. Kintamani is around 1500 metres and it was 19 degrees at the viewpoint at half nine. Seminyak had been 26 when we left and was 31 by the time we got back. 2. Small notes. Every stop has a toilet that wants 2000 rupiah and nobody ever has change. 3. Swim kit in a day bag for the hot springs. My eldest refused to bring his and then sat on a plastic chair for an hour watching the rest of us. 4. Travel sickness tablets. The road up past Ubud is one hairpin after another. My youngest is fine on aircraft and was not fine on that. The driver waited in every car park and appeared at the exit the moment we came out, every single time. He ate his lunch away from us and I found that odd until somebody explained that it is just how it is done here. Lunch at the buffet on the caldera rim was about 150k rupiah a head and you are mostly paying for where the table is sitting.
