Indonesia 🇮🇩
Indonesia is the country we keep telling friends to visit slowly. Seventeen days felt short for what we packed in — two Javanese volcanoes before dawn (Bromo's sea of sand at sunrise, then a tougher hike to Kawah Ijen's sulphur crater), a slow family week on Gili Air where the kids learned to dive and we ate the best pizza of our lives, a villa base in Penestanan above the Ubud rice fields, and the east-coast water palaces of Tirta Gangga and Pura Lempuyang.
We've split our Indonesia guides into three regions so you can plan a trip that matches the time you have: Java's volcano belt for the adventurers, Bali's east and inland for slow days between temples and rice fields, and the Gili Islands and Lombok for the no-motorbike island week.
Every guide is built on a real family trip, with photos we took ourselves and stays we'd book again via our Stay22 maps.