One day during my stay in Bali of my 2017-Journey, I had a chance to meet with a local Indonesian traveler who she was willing to share a trip to some amazing waterfalls as well as not touristy, soon she identified three waterfalls situated in three different locations: Gitgit , Alang-alang and Tukad Cepung.

Considering the trip distance to reach those waterfalls, we chose to go for Tukad Cepung as the most feasible to reach by riding a motorbike from Ubud.

Despite early in the morning there were some rain-spots we managed to start the trip just after 10 o’clock, the weather was kind of humid but still not that bad. The more we were getting closer to the waterfalls the more I had the feeling that nobody was around which made me feel like in a paradise, indeed, the local female traveler had a good insight in choosing that!

As we arrived at the waterfall site, like in many other sites of Bali, there was a small Hindu temple, even it was not a touristy-appealing site still we got to pay for an entrance fee which if compared to any other touristy attraction was far less cheaper (about 0.70€), moreover, here unlike many other (touristy) sites the price was equal for everybody since normally in Indonesia if you are a foreign visitor you’re supposed to pay more for the entrance ticket, so at Tukad Cepung such a rule did not apply, no matter if you are Indonesian or foreign 🙂

Once we passed the entrance point, I could straightaway notice all the surrounding breath-taking landscape with such vivid vegetation as shown in the pictures slide below:

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The weather even cloudy was great enough to give us a gorgeous panorama and practice in taking plenty of proper pictures, the hiking path at some points was a bit steep but still Okay as long as you’re a bit experienced. When we came close to the waterfall spot at the bottom it was like we got in to a semi-gloomy jungle as shown below, there were some big stones spreaded everywhere and the water was flowing through, obviously as a picky European traveler I was equipped with GORE-TEX hiking shoes in order to avoid any issue but still the level of the water was high enough to get the water inside the shoes 😀 But it was okay, just a minor issue 🙂 That’s the wild nature! As opposite, my trip mate just wore a pair of flick-flock sandals for her feet like many Indonesian people do.

At the bottom level we walked a bit further and after turning round a corner we finally arrived at the waterfall. I couldn’t wait to practice my photo-shooting skills by carefully recording the water falling down so that was a great chance to do so!

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You might have the feeling of being inside a cave but instead you are just inside a wetty and gloomy jungle 😉 When we took all the way around back to the top point, I observed that there was a proper canalized water stream, we all know that the water is precious good for all the living beings so we don’t want to waste it pointlessly even Bali is well-known for its hard rainy season.

Canalized water stream

In conclusion, the trip to Tukad Cepung is 100% worthy if you are sick and tired of checking Hindu temples, Balinese coffee makers and so on; it is really an alternative to any seaside or mountain landscape if you want to stand out of the touristy crowd as well as practicing your hiking and photo-shooting skills!

Naturally, it is only up to us to decide what is suitable for, however I venture to say that life is nice only if we know how to enjoy it!

I hope to have impressed you all with a proper idea on what great you may find out when travelling to Bali.

Every comment is welcomed!