Bali Camel Safari

A unique experience you can have in Bali is try to riding a camel by the beach. This unique activities often done by couples whose looking for the pre-wedding Photo-Spot. The camel ride has been there in Hotel Hilton (was Hotel Nikko) since 20 year ago. But not many people knowing about this, though the guide said that it is popular for Japanese tourist.

While I knew about the Camel years before, I just had the chance to try it yesterday. I booked the Camel weeks before our visit to Bali. Turned out it is a right way. When we visited the venue. It has already fully booked.

We booked the first batch in the morning because the sun light is still healthy while the weather is already great for taking photos. The camel is located far down on the beach. A guard was escorting us to the place. There we saw the camels with their herders. There are total 5 camels on the beach. The oldest is 37 years while the others are around 11 years old.

SAFARI PACKAGES

They have several package for this camel ride, depends on how long you want to ride the camel (30 - 60 minutes) and whether you want to include the food afterwards or not. They also provide a pre-wedding packages. All safari tour is required 2 persons minimum. Here the information of their packages :

*this rate subject to change 

1. Safari 1 - include 1 hour camel safari with lunch or dinner + parasailing, banana boat, glass bottom boat, and turtle farm
2. Safari 2 - include 1 hour camel safari
3. Safari 3 - include 1 hour camel safari with lunch or dinner
4. Safari 4 - include 30 minutes camel safari (we pick this one)
5. Safari 5 - include 1 hour camel safari with Balinese massage
6. Safari 6 - include 1 hour camel safari with Kecak Dance
7. Pre-wedding packages : 30 minutes or 1 hour photo wedding

TRANSPORTATION

There's also have transportation service for morning and afternoon safari in several location, such as : Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa, Jimbaran, Tuban, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak, and Sanur. There's time table for every pick up location.

*terms and condition apply for the transportation services

I strongly recommend to do prior booking through their website to guarantee availability. They have 5 camels for this safari with several time frame options for a day. 

Morning safari will be at 9.00 and 10.30 AM. Afternoon safari will be at 14.00 and 15.30 PM.

We took the 30 minutes ride and we feels that it is more than enough. We ride the camel down from Hilton to Ritz Carlton beach. Lucky us it's a hot sunny day, no rain or cloudy as you can see at the pictures, a perfect clear blue sky. No worried the Herders will stroll along with you and take picture after picture for you. You just sit relax and enjoy the ride.

The Camel must move in group, because they are grown up together. If one is left behind, it will become restless and uncontrollable. That's why the minimum requirement for one ride is two persons. Along the way, we across the ongoing development of Kempinski Hotel (which has run for 7 years !?!), which is located between Hilton and Ritz. We can see that the hotels developments in the area makes the beach ecosystem changed.

There are two Camel Herders who guide us. One walk in front to guide the camel, and the other one took photos for us and much of our surprise, the result is good. It seems that they are already done this hundreds of time.

Overall, this is a good experience. Riding camels is actually not that different as riding horse. But it is a new experience for mounting and dismounting a camel. We just hope that the company will always take care of the Herders and the camels not just exploiting them for another tourist attraction.

For more further information you can directly contact BALI CAMEL SAFARI'S

Hope this information useful for whoever want try to ride a camel.