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Browse more guides: Indonesia travel | Asia destinations Bali Family Travel Safety: Is It Safe to Visit? Last updated: April 2026 · 11 min read Yes, Bali is safe for families with kids. Most of the concerns parents worry about are routine , food hygiene, sunscreen, watching where small kids put their hands . Not exceptional. Stay in Ubud, Seminyak, Sanur, or Nusa Dua for family-friendly resort areas, book a reputable kid-friendly hotel with a pool and proper kitchen standards, take basic precautions around water and traffic, and you'll have a great trip. I've taken a family of 4 and a family of 6 to Bali twice in the last three years, and the only "incident" we had was a mild Bali belly on day two of the first trip. That's the bar. TL;DR: Yes, safe with normal precautions. Real risks to watch: Bali belly, scooter accidents, monkey bites at Ubud's Sacred Monkey Forest, and rip currents on the south coast. Best family bases: Sanur (kids), Ubud (culture),...

Browse more guides: Indonesia travel | Asia destinations Sulawesi Indonesia Complete Guide 2026: Tana Toraja, Bunaken, Makassar & Manado TL;DR Sulawesi is the K-shaped Indonesian island most travellers fly over on the way to Bali, and I think that is a mistake. Four long peninsulas radiate from a central knot of mountains, holding around 19 million people across four major ethnic groups: the seafaring Bugis, the Makassar traders, the highland Toraja, and the Christian Minahasa of the north. A single island that feels like five countries stitched together. I built this guide around five anchors. Tana Toraja keeps the world's most distinctive funeral culture alive, with buffalo sacrifice ceremonies, tau-tau ancestor effigies on cliff faces, and tongkonan houses whose boat-shaped roofs point toward the ancestral north. Bunaken Marine Park off Manado has more than 70 mapped dive sites and coral walls that fall into deep blue water within a fin kick of the boat. Makassar holds...