8 What You Must Know About Bali Private Quad Bike Adventure

Vacationing in Bali Island is not only about visiting whites sandy beaches or Sacred Hindus Temples. But there are other fun things to do, as one of them is joining in private quad bike riding adventure.

Have you known about the quad bike riding adventure? It is a challenging activity that will involve you in a fun exploration along a thrilling route with wet and muddy terrains by riding a quad bike.

The quad bike or also known as atv (all-terrain vehicle) is like a motorcycle with a handlebar grip but it has four wheels and more powerful engine which are indeed designed for off-roading.

Conquering the wet and muddy tracks on quad bike is really exciting and may pump your adrenaline rush. And also, there are a lot of memorable experiences that you have in it.

Bali Quad Bike Riding Adventure

1. The Best Quad Bike Spot in Bali
2. Price of Bali Quad Bike Package
3. Limit Age for Joining in The Quad Bike Adventure
4. Conquer the More Challenging Tracks
5. Exploring Beauty of Nature on Quad Bike
6. Preparation Before Adventuring
7. Tips for Riding Quad Bike Properly
8. Fun Things to Do After Adventuring

The Best Quad Bike Spot in Bali

For those of you who are looking for an amazing spot of Ubud private quad bike adventure in Bali Island. We recommend you to visit Ubud, a famous area in Gianyar Regency (37 meters northeast from Ngurah Rai Airport).

The area is well-known for a beautiful rural point where you can see rice paddy fields, a holy temple, traditional local resident settlement, and also green forest.

Imagine here you can ride to conquer the challenging tracks while seeing amazing panorama alongside the route of the adventure.

If you want to take an atv riding adventure in Ubud easily, you can join with us (Wohoota). We provide an atv riding package with more challenging tracks and also stunning panorama.

The package includes complete facilities and services to support safer adventure and is indeed designed for those of you who want to have memorable holiday with unforgettable memories.

Price of Bali Quad Bike Package

There are two kinds of Bali quad bike adventure packages that you can choose in our service, namely: single package and tandem package.

1. Single Quad Bike Package: USD $90 per one person

2. Tandem Quad Bike Package: USD $120 per two persons

What are the difference between the single package and the tandem package? Both just look difference on number of person in the package.

The single package is only for one person on a quad bike, recommended to you who want to get full experience as a solo rider.

While the tandem package means a couple (two persons) on a same quad bike, recommended for you who want to adventure quad bike with a partner.

You and partner can alternate to ride quad bike or being a passenger along the route of the adventure.

If you have a friend or a member of family who are 7 – 16 years old or haven’t been able to ride, you can take them to join in the tandem package as a sitter or a passenger.

Limit Age for Joining in The Quad Bike Adventure

Limit age for joining in the quad bike adventure is between 7 to 65 years old. The people who is above 17 years old can ride alone while for the underage people is only considered to join as a sitter.

Hence, the quad bike adventure is a good choice for family holiday activity because you can also take children to join in it and get more fun family time.

No matter what you have been experienced or not, you can join the quad bike adventure with us as long as you have a basic skill of riding.

All tracks in the route is indeed designed for level of beginner – medium. Therefore, you shouldn’t be doubtful to join in the adventure with us.

Conquer the More Challenging Tracks

As above, the route of the adventure consists of wet and muddy tracks and also steep terrain. The beginners will get the thrilling moment there, while the experienced peoples may try to repeat.

In the route, there are river and also small forest where you will ride a quad bike and get more excitement.

It is so fun and exciting particularly when riding on the river and passing through the water. Your clothes may get wet and dirt by splatter of water.

The muddy terrain is more difficult. Most of wheel’s quad bike often may get stuck in puddle of muds. You may also experience it on the terrains.

But, you shouldn’t be worried for it because the guide will be always there to motive along the route of the adventure.

Exploring Beauty of Nature on Quad Bike

Not only the challenging tracks, you can see beautiful panorama around the spot while riding quad bike along the route.

Some beautiful panoramas that you can see along the route are fascinating rice fields, a beautiful rural area, and also lush green forest.

1. Fascinating Rice Fields

   
   

Most of local peoples in the village (near adventure spot) are farmer and they always spend time to work in the rice fields where you will see when adventuring.

The local farmer still work by using traditional equipment, as examples: use a hoe to weed or a sickle to cut grass around the fields. That’s interesting moment that you can see along the rice field area.

If you happen to join the adventure in the days before harvest seasons, then you may see the most stunning scenery of greener rice fields.

In the days after harvesting, the rice field just looks like a short yellow straw.

You may get off the quad bike to stop at some points of rice fields if you want to capture all moment into photos or video record there.

2. Beautiful Rural Area

   
   

Besides rice fields, you will also ride to get through the beautiful rural area where you may see local resident settlement and also a Holy Hindus Temple.

Some local peoples are also a stone carving artist. The carvings are usually made from river stones (called “Paras” in Balinese Language).

No wonder, you will see some places which display the carvings on the side of the road.

In addition, you may see a few woman who come to do daily ritual to the holy temple. They usually bring canang (Balinese traditional offering) and wear a kamen and a shawl.

The canang is made from several of flowers and pandanus-leaf slices, then all those are put on palm-leaf basket (like a shape of a small tray).

The kamen or also known as a sarong is a Balinese traditional cloth that cover from waist to ankle. While, the shawl tie around waist.

The ritual is done in the morning or afternoon as a symbol of gratitude to the God.

3. Lush Green Forest

   
   

The last, we will ride through a small forest where you may see lush green panorama of tropical trees, which it many impress your eyes offers along the route.

You can may enjoy shooting atmosphere while riding the quad bike.

At a few of points in the route, there is a bunch of bamboo trees which will add into stunning scenery with Balinese typical nuance in your adventure.

Preparation Before Adventuring

Before join in the quad bike adventure, we really advise to do a proper preparation to get more amazing experiences.

The preparation is fit physical condition and the supporting equipment. Let’s find out them for more detail below.

• Physical in Fit Condition

  
  

Adventure on the quad bike are so tiring and also drain a lot of your energy. You must make sure your physical be in fit condition during the adventure.

For a fit physical, you can keep the diet and also do a sport routinely on the days before joining adventuring.

Avoid drinking any alcoholic beverage when you will join in the adventure because it’s risky and will make you get drunk along the route.

Riding in drunk condition may really cause your balance lost. It can harm yourself during the adventure. So, you avoid drinking alcoholic when joining in the adventure.

You can also sleep earlier to save more energy one day before adventuring.

• Safety Equipment

  
  

The quad bike riding adventure is categorized as an extreme activity. Hence, we need to have a proper safety equipment to protect yourself during the adventure.

The safety equipment for atv riding adventure usually consists of a helm and gumboots. If you join the adventure with us, then the safety equipment is already included in the package.

The helm is a mandatory item to protect head from bump of hard object if you fall down the quad bike. While, the gumboots will cover your legs from muds.

Both will be provided by us in the spot near start point and will be worn before riding the quad bike. So, you don’t need to prepare all these if you join the quad bike adventure with us.

• Supporting Items (Required to Bring)

The supporting items are required to bring by you because they aren’t include in the package, but helpful to make your adventure become more amazing. The items are:

1. Change of Clothes

A splattered of muds and also water along the track may make your clothes stained. Are you sure to wear the wet and dirty clothes when returning back?

If not, you should bring a set of clothes for a change of the wet and dirty clothes after adventuring. A set of clothes is optional (make you feel comfortable) and usually consists of a casual shirt, long pants, and also underwear.

You must prepare to keep the change of clothes in backpack and bring them when going to the adventure spot.

2. Sunblock Lotion

Outdoor activity requires your skin contact with sunlight which may make it burnt and looks so dark. That sometimes interfere with the appearance.

To avoid it, applying a sunblock lotion is a good solution to do before adventuring. The sunblock may be got in the minimarkets along route from hotel to the adventure spot.

It can be usually be sold at the price between IDR 25.000 – IDR 125.000 depends on the brands and also the ingredient.

3. Sunglass

Need to note that helm in the quad bike adventure is complete with a visor or a glass cover in the front. So, you need to use a sunglass to cover your eyes from sunlight along the track.

Use of sunglass is helpful to avoid your eyes become dazzled along the route and make your riding experience become more comfortable.

Not only that, the sunglass also may protect your eyes from the dust flying when you ride on the quad bike. The dust may interfere your sight and irritate your eyes if you ride the quad bike without using a sunglass.

4. Camera

Camera isn’t indeed a required equipment to support your safety, but it is helpful to capture all your moments during the adventure.

That is recommended to you bring a camera with a complete waterproof cover in order to your camera isn’t broken by a splatter of water and muds.

Or you can choose a camera in action type which has a smaller design so that it is easier to bring during the adventure.

Make sure you also bring a camera holder to ease you. So that, you don’t need to hold the camera during capturing all moment when riding. 

Tips for Riding Quad Bike Properly

The techniques of riding quad bike is different of the motorcycle. There are some tips about the quad bike riding that you should know for more comfortable adventure. Those tips are:

1. Understand Basic Techniques of Riding

You watch a tutorial video to understand techniques of riding the quad bike. Not too expert, just find out the basic techniques. It will ease you to ride the quad bike when joining in the adventure.

Generally, there are 2 types of transmissions of the quad bike vehicle, namely: manual transmission and automatic transmission.

The manual transmission means you must shift gear and push the accelerator for riding the quad bike. While, the automatic transmission means you just need to push the accelerator to ride without shifting gear.

Therefore, the quad bike with automatic transmission is considered easier to ride than the manual transmission. And it is also suitable for the beginners.

Meanwhile, most of adventure operators in Bali (including us) prefer to provide a quad bike with an automatic transmissions. So, anyone can join in the adventure without having to experience before it.

2. Do The Turn Well

When riding the quad bike, you shouldn’t do a turn as on the motorcycle. The techniques or riding on the quad bike is different of the motorcycle.

For an example: when you will do the turn to the right, then your quad bike will tilt to the left. You shouldn’t also lean to the left, but lean to the right to keep the balance and avoid the quad bike being upside-down.

Otherwise, if you will do the turn to the left, then you should lean to the left to keep the balance and avoid the quad bike upside down. So, make sure you always priority the balance when doing the turn on th quad bike.

3. Avoid Lowering the Legs

Besides techniques of doing the turn, there is another important things that you remember when riding the quad bike. That’s how to handle the situation when you lose of balance on the quad bike.

Don’t lower one of your leg when losing of the balance on the quad bike as usually riding the motorcycle.

Because, it may be fatal and probably cause the leg broken due to hold back the heavy load of the quad bike or eroded by the wheels.

So, you are really advised to avoid lowering the leg when losing the balance on the quad bike.

4. Obey Instructions of The Guide

When joining in the adventure, don’t be reckless to ride the quad bike along the route especially if you are a beginner (first experience in the quad bike adventure).

Always listen and obey the instructions of the guides during the adventure to keep a safe and fun experience.

Before adventuring, the guide usually tell the participant about the introduction and instruction of the adventure route. Make sure you obey them all.

5. Wear Casual Clothes

Wear casual clothes during the adventure, to ease you in moving and riding the quad bike. Especially for woman, avoid wearing a skirt because it may limit your move when riding.

The recommended casual clothes are a t-shirt and a short pants in fit size.

In addition, you should also take off all accessories (such as: earrings, a bracelet, and a necklace) on your body because the accessories might come off your body during the adventure.

Need to note that the adventure operator will not take responsibility for losing your accessories or jewelries along the route.

You can take off all of them and put into the locker to keep all safe before starting the adventure.

Fun Things to Do After Adventuring

The quad bike adventure approximately take 2 hours. It means you still have a lot of time after adventuring. There are fun things to do after it, as below:

• Visiting Amazing Spots in Ubud

  

As above, the adventure spot is located in Ubud and close to some famous amazing spots namely:

1. Ubud Monkey Forest, a sacred sanctuary that is habited by a hundred of monkeys and also grown by various species of tropical tress.
2. Campuhan Ridge Walk, a breathtaking ridge that like a long bride range from the south to the north.
3. Ubud Art Market, a recommended spot to get several of Balinese traditional souvenirs (bags, paints, statues, etc).
4. Puri Saren Palace, a historical heritage that is was built by Ubud King in 1640.
5. Saraswati Temple, a holy hindus temple that is dedicated to Dewi Saraswati (the goddess which symbolized light, knowledge, and also truth).
6. Tegalalang Rice Terrace, a stunning area of rice paddy field that has a shape of unique terrace.
7. Tegenungan Waterfall, a beautiful waterfall with lush green view on the lowland.

You can add a few of the spots into your longer day tour to get more memorable experience.   

• Trying Other Fun Activities

Ubud also has another adventure spot that named Ayung River. The most famous spot to do rafting and tubing adventure, which one of them can be also added into your day tour.

1. White Water Rafting Adventure

   

White water rafting adventure is a thrilling activity on Ayung River, where you must board an inflatable boat to navigate and maneuver between large rocks by a paddle on the hand along the river rapid.

Not only that, you will also get through a beautiful waterfall, a stunning green forest, and also unique stone carving which all may impress your eyes alongside the river.

Especially the stone carving, that is an iconic attraction of Ayung River which created by 50 local artists and stretched 300 meters alongside of the river.

You can get off the boat to stop for a while if you want to take photos around the waterfall or the carving. Just make sure you bring a camera in waterproof cover to get more awesome photos.

2. Tubing River Adventure

   

Ubud tubing river adventure is like as rafting activity, where you will be also involved in a navigation of the river by boarding the inflatable boat.

However, the inflatable boat in tubing adventure is smaller than in rafting. It can be just boarded by 1 – 2 persons while the rafting may be boarded by 4 – 6 persons.

You don’t need to hold a paddle on the hand. Just lay down on the inflatable boat and flow to follow the river stream. A helm and a life jacket are also prepared to support safer experience.

The route will also pass through the green forest and the waterfall where you can stop for a while to take beautiful pictures.

So, which one do you want to combine with the quad bike adventure? You can request it with us when booking the package.

 

 

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