{"id":8500,"date":"2026-05-18T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/amazing-banyumala-twin-waterfalls-jungles-bali\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:52:10","slug":"amazing-banyumala-twin-waterfalls-jungles-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/amazing-banyumala-twin-waterfalls-jungles-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Banyumala Twin Waterfalls In Bali: A Hidden Gem You Have To Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 5 minutes away from Pura Bratan in Bali<\/a> lies a spot that increasingly popular in Bali – almost to a point that it\u2019s become something of an iconic landmark in Bali (you see it and you know the photo was taken in Bali) and that spot is, get this \u2013 an entrance to a golf course.<\/p>\n

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No seriously, it is!<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019d seen images and wondered where those gates led to \u2013 just to find out it was an entrance to a golf course.<\/p>\n

A bit of an anti-climax I\u2019d say but once we found ourselves driving past it after lunch, we had to stop to check it out properly.<\/p>\n

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For what it\u2019s worth, in person, those gates are actually quite impressive to look at. It\u2019s detailed, impressively towering and makes for quite the entrance piece to what promised to be a grand estate.<\/p>\n

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Thing is though, all that it is a gate and unless of course if you\u2019re here to golf, there\u2019s not much else to do here. This both makes it very easy to swing by and not necessarily a sight worth taking a huge detour to visit.<\/p>\n

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Thankfully, this spot was actually on our way to somewhere exciting – Banyumala Twin Waterfalls!<\/p>\n

From the photos I\u2019d seen, the waterfalls looked absolutely incredible but if there\u2019s anything I\u2019d learnt in Bali so far, it was that waterfalls usually involved a fair bit of a trek to go to and from.<\/p>\n

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This one was no exception.<\/p>\n

You drive off-road for what feels like hours on a path that can barely fit one car (it was probably more like 20 minutes) and eventually arrive at a tiny little village. I saw village but it was just like 4 or 5 hours around the spot where you stop.<\/p>\n

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The trek then takes you right into the jungle, through uneven steps on a path you\u2019d probably be advised to take a walking stick on (I didn\u2019t take one because it was already a hassle to hold two cameras \u2013 one for photos and one for videos without carrying an extra stick).<\/p>\n

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Eventually, you arrive at the Twin waterfalls!<\/p>\n

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For how off-beat they are, the pay off is how you pretty much have them just to yourself!<\/p>\n

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The water here is cool and refreshing and considering the sweat you\u2019ve just worked up getting here, it makes for the perfect cooling spot!<\/p>\n

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Suffice to say, we spent the next hour or so just splashing around here and pretty much just basking in its beauty. (*I know that sound so naff but you\u2019ll be impressed when you visit it).<\/p>\n

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Once we finally decided to leave, something funny happened. We got out, changed into dry clothes during which Chris noticed he had a leech on his foot. Screeching like banshees, we all stripped naked right there and had at least one person check us for leeches! Oh, the terror was real.<\/p>\n

The leech was still fresh on Chris so he could get rid of it straight away but if you leave it long enough\u2026 well, you know what happens then!<\/p>\n

It was only after we calmed down, laughing hysterically that I finally googled more stuff about leeches and found out they\u2019re not likely to have been in the water. Instead, you\u2019re more likely to have gotten the leeches from trekking through the forest (which corroborates what we\u2019d heard about hiking in Nepal<\/a> where the super leeches there can somehow go through socks and find their way onto your skin).<\/p>\n

Leech-gate over, we snoozed the entire way back to our villa in Ubud<\/a>, where after a quick dip in the pool, we headed out to see the show at Ubud Palace.<\/p>\n

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I think I\u2019ve said this before but I\u2019m always kinda sceptical about shows \u2013 it\u2019s bad enough paying money for something that isn\u2019t great, without having to sit through the entire thing.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the show at the Palace wasn\u2019t the case for me. I read the entire leaflet they give you (which sets some context as to what you\u2019re about to watch) and so I thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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Lloyd and Georgia, on the other hand, had no clue what they were watching and I constantly had to explain what each scene was to them (Chris couldn\u2019t make it to the show \u2013 he stayed behind at the villa).<\/p>\n

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Truth be told, with Lloyd and Georgia, it\u2019s no different to watching Game of Thrones with them (half the time spent watching it is explaining who the characters are, why one person hates\/loves\/distrusts the other one…etc) so I came to this show pretty well rehearsed.<\/p>\n

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Like I said, I thoroughly enjoyed the show and I\u2019d recommend it as a bit of light entertainment on one of the evening (plus it doesn\u2019t cost a whole lot so it\u2019s all good).<\/p>\n

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Show done with, we headed down one street whose name I can\u2019t quite remember for dinner (in fact, I don\u2019t think I ever really knew the name, I just remember we stumbled on it in search of drinks and massages one evening).<\/p>\n

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The rest of the evening was spent straight-up chilling with food and beers, interrupted with lots of laughing, especially when we remembered \u201cLeech-gate<\/em>\u201d from earlier on.<\/p>\n

Days like this are truly why you come to Bali (leech-aside \ud83d\ude06).<\/p>\n

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