IdGuides Journeys, Jakarta (2025)

07/04/2025

Today's family explorers heading off from morning coffee at Acacia Camp ~ What a way to start the week 🔆🌿

29/03/2025

Explore more in nature with family & friends this holiday, just 90min ex-Jakarta.

Chose your private walk, trek or trail run from 30 original by ~ categorised by duration and difficulty level, making it easy to chose a day trail program tailored for your group.

Family Walks (2-3 hrs / easy-med)
6 trails ( # 2, 6, 25, 26 above)
Rp 225,000 pp* (3-14 pax)
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Half Day Treks (3-4hrs / med-hard)
15 trails ( #3, 4, 11, 15, 16 above)
Rp. 345,000* (3-14pax)
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Full Day Treks (5-7 hrs / med-hard)
6 trails ( # 16 above)
Rp. 545,000 pp* (3-14 pax)
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Private Trail Runs (3-6hrs)
Tailored El. Gain, Technical focus & Duration (Time on Feet) to you.
from Rp. 475,000 pp*

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Full trail details and Booking Form for all idGuides Sentul Day Hikes:
🌿 Click Link in Bio
🌿+62 812 1800 8401 (wa/call)
🌿 [email protected]

Price includes:
🔹Tailored trail program for your group, incl .flexible start times
🔹idGuides Community Trail Guides (1 guide/4 visitors; idGuides-trained & certified, med kit & HT)
🔹idGuides Base Support
🔹trek poles
🔹Aqua re-fill (bring own bottle)
🔹parking/entrance fees (tiket2)
🔹Rp 50,000 impact contribution reinvested directly where you hike ~ supporting idGuides Trails for People and Planet projects requested by local communities.

🌿 The idGuides Sentul 2025 impact projects you support with your visits with us are:
1. Cigobang Irrigation rebuild project to sustain padifields for 33 households;
2. Cash payment scheme to forest farmers in exchange for their trail maintenance & environmental stewardship (tree planting & sustained care, waste collection, sustainable agroforestry);
3. Practical vocational development supporting inter-generational transition to modern green jobs & livelihoods combining heritage preservation, restorative farming & trail ecotourism (Team idGuides).

10/03/2025

Happy Day on Foot with the Fun Fearless Females last Thursday on the ~ currently peaceful & calm during the fasting month of Ramadhan🔆🌿

Weather during last week after Monday's big storms has been sunny and clear in the mornings, with humidity building to rain by 3pm.

Our trails listed below - (in and around Acacia Camp and the lowlands ridges of Cigobang, Leuwigoong) remain stable and in good condition after last week's storms, as is car road access up to idGuides "Trailhead 6" (TH6) - Acacia Camp's parking area hosted by Toko Hj Edi. Beyond this, road access is unstable for cars, due to multiple landslides on the approach to Leuwi Hejo and to Leuwi Hordeng.

We recommend the following idGuides Sentul Trails which are currently quiet and in optimal condition:

🌿 EEJ 2
🌿 EEJ 6
🌿 EEJ 8
🌿 EEJ 10 as a circuit
🌿 EEJ 11
🌿 EEJ 19

Find details in the 2025 Sentul Trail Prospectus in our bio linktree 🔆

31/01/2025

Last Wednesday at dawn, Wayan & Andrew ~ cool, calm and collected atop Agung's Crater Summit ~ welcoming the sun's rays to warm for the descent.

Wednesday was Chinese New Year, a busy holiday in Bali, and despite summit crowds, Wayan and Andrew had the summit almost to themselves.

idGuides are professional treks & expedition operators, specialising since 2009 in community-guided trail experiences which are as natural and crowd-free as possible. For Bali's popular summits Agung & Batur, accessible as part of with Team idGuides Sebudi Agung community mountain guides, we program our ascents to avoid peak crowd times.

Our goal is not to be on summits for sunrise, but to be on the summit approach with the final 30-45' left to ascend, for sunrise. This is for asthetitic as well as safety reasons.

Aesthetics & Quiet Summit experience: By targetting our summit to be at 6-7am post-dawn, we miss the main pre-dawn crowds both on the summit and the jostling on the approach. More often than not, we arrive on summit when the pre-dawn crowds are leaving, experiencing a quieter summit.

Safety & Optimal conditions to summit:
The final hour of a volcano summit approach is often the most exposed and technically difficult. When undertaken during pre-dawn at 4-5am when temperatures are coldest and darkest, this coincides when hikers are most fatigued, dealing with altitude, cold and wind, and when glycogen stores are fully depleted. Taking time in the lee to refuel and reset is key to both morale, safety and optimising your chance of a successful summit and safe descent.

Ideal conditions to allow for rest and refuelling before a responsible summit approach, is at first the glimmer of dawn. Gradual light and warmth boosts morale and the chance to rest and refuel energises. The last 30-45' are thus tackled in a refuelled, mentally-rested state, much more easily and safely.

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Book your Agung Crater Rim 1D volcano summit with idGuides / Team idGuides Sebudi, Agung's community mountain guide team

www.greatbalitrail.com
+62 812 1800 8401

31/01/2025

Harking back to the days when Sentul's waterfalls and riverbank padifields were clean, free of so-called "man-made attractions" and waste was minimal.

See if you are able to identify this spot? Few would be able to recognise this view in Sentul if visiting today. .......

Curug Leuwi Asih has been a key feature along several of the original idGuides Sentul community trails since 2008-9 we collaboratively developed these with Cigobang & Landeuh's farmers. A key original mission was to develop conservation-based livelihoods and incomes for local people through trail ecotourism.

idGuides Sentul original community trails
EEJ 2, 7, 25, 26, 27 visit Landeuh's Curug Leuwi Asih, but it no longer is as beautifully natural as it once was.

Now a "man-made-attraction" attracting 1000s of urban visitors, many local village livelihoods dependent on visitors spending money at their warungs. The growing amounts of waste left behind, not only destroys the attraction and undermines local livelihoods, but burdens local people who struggle to dispose of the sheer amount of plastics and styrofoam waste responsibly, and which also clogs the irrigation to their padi fields.

Solutions are not simple, but we are all able to play our part.

Join Us to reduce waste.
We'll be keeping our natural treasures natural and clean, and supporting local communities by:

1. bring our own water bottles for refills
2. Ask for Use plates & cutlery which is not single-use plastic
3. Bring any waste home with you to dispose of formally and responsibly
4. Learn & practice

Join Us.
Find out how

28/01/2025

The Great Bali Trail is a 350km mosaic of local footpaths woven together by the communities who travel them daily.

To Find Bali on Foot, follow a farmer for a day with - Community Trail Guides whose farms, forests, temples and family folklore you visit.

www.greatbalitrail.com

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26/12/2024

A Sunny Day on foot during a rainy Bali week for this superwoman, taking on GBT Stage 14 ~ the Full Day Hike traverse of Bali's Kintamani Crater, guided by Dewa Rocky, GBT Expedition Leader with .

Explore and support Kintamani's lava landscape and Batur mountain communities, on Great Bali Trail Stages 14 & 15.

Find your private Trail Adventure to suit the way you want to explore.

GBT 14 Full Day Hike
GBT 14 Full Day Trail Run
GBT 14a & 14b Half Day Hikes
GBT 14c Half Day Summit Batur

www.greatbalitrail.com
Call / WA +62 812 1800 8401
[email protected]

Find Bali on Foot, on The Great Bali Trail.

he is a long-distance trail project by idGuides in partnership with 30 Bali villages who host & guide you on each of the 30 stages. Hike a stage and support local people and environment where you hike.

are impact-driven expedition outfitters & outdoor leadership educators. Since 2009, idGuides have been developing trails, training community guides and leading treks & trail adventures Indonesia-wide to support rural isustainable development and local communities through trail ecotourism.

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25/12/2024

Wishing All a joyful, peaceful, Happy Christmas ~ from All of Us at Team idGuides ❤️🌿

22/11/2024

How about a Hike this weekend? Ditch the Screens, and Head for the Hills.

15/11/2024

An Acacia Camp morning, opening the shutters to the familiar chatter of Cigobang's female farmers, up at dawn planting rice in Acacia Camp padi fields 🌿

13/11/2024

Planning a visit to Bali during the holidays?
Find Freedom and Bali on foot ~ Walk, Hike, Fastpack or Run, at natures pace, along The Great Bali Trail.

Discover The , Indonesia's first long-distance trail project, under development by with local communities since 2021. With your help, the 350km / 30-stage trail is expected to be fully-complete for independent hiking end 2026.

As village partners are engaged, community trail guides trained, and stages are completed, we've crafted collections of trail adventures to enable you to start exploring, supporting Balinese villlage economies where you hike, and to developing the trail.

Check out link in our Bio, or
www.GreatBaliTrail.com

We're inviting you to "Discover The GBT" with a one-time 10% discount code.
Book online and apply at checkout: DISCOVERGBT10

From 1 Jan, 2025, all of you who have booked and trekked will be eligible for longer term Trail Passes, as Friends, Members, and Patrons of The GBT.

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Trail featured here:

UND 2 / Tangkup Waterfall & Forest
Half Day Circuit Hike
5km or 10km option
Undisan, Bangli.

For those of you who seek a very special canyon waterfall hike away from crowds, Undisan's the Tangkup Waterfall & Sacred Forest Trail in Bangli, Bali, is one for you.

11/11/2024

A moment in step with an elderly farming couple heading home from another day in their fields, travelling along the same footpath, no doubt, for the last half-century.

This couple's whole life has been lived on this trail between Leuwigoong and Cigobang, two Sundanese villages in West Java's Sentul highlands. These traditional trails hold rich histories of Lives and loves and livelihoods, of family and folklore and heritage, of farms, fields and forests.

As we urbanites hike and run and rebalance in nature, we are efectively etching our own histories into these very trails. It can be a beautiful thing, the thread of history continuing through a footpath. Yet, let us ensure that our new histories add to, not eclipse, those who travelled before us.

This is what we at are all about. Enabling all to explore on foot responsibly, reconnect to landscape and write our own histories in our "discovery" of the outdoors.
Let us learn from locals, of their lives and livelihoods and help to record and preserve these traditional ways, in the story of these trails, before the warungs and the signs and the urbanisation of these areas is too far gone.

We have so little time left to do this, before the forests and farms painstakingly tilled by our grandfathers and grandmothers over generations are lost. To capture the histories and personal tales of our elders, before they, too, have gone.

I came across this couple in the final moments of an all-day trail run at speed, slowing to the natural grounded surefooted pace of a farmer's gait. I fell into step, following in the footsteps of this beautiful couple. In just a few moments, I was grounded, and yet stunned into the urgency and importance of safeguarding their history on foot into the trail destination development for the future.

Tales from a Day on Foot.
KK ~ Founder

04/11/2024

The rainy season has arrived in Sentul, bringing fresh winds, cooler days, and irridescent greens. Truly delicious to find freedom on foot in the hills during these coolmonths, but take note to be well-prepared with rain gear, proper trail shoes, snacks and

30/10/2024

Great vibe the home trails last Saturday morning with ~ making friends out in nature and taking On's new trail shoe series out for a spin ~

• Cloud Ultra 2
• Cloud Vista 2
• Cloud Venture Peak 3
Available soon at On's new ASHTA store, opening 9 November.

Get your pair and come find freedom on foot with at Acacia Camp, Sentul.

Photo series 🌟
Photos by 😎

24/08/2024

idGuides is about empowering people through outdoor leadership education, ecotourism and expeditions to recognise, explore, and realise possibilities beyond our horizons.

Our name ~ "idGuides" ~ originates from our enduring core focus on supporting natural-resource-dependent communities to build conservation-based livelihoods and a modern professional identity ("id") as a "Community Trail Guide".

Since 2009, we have trained hundreds of Community Trail Guides and Expedition Leaders through our professional guides development program, and connected them to markets through our own hikes, schools programs and expeditions, and external responsible tourism agents.

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