Lombok · 4 days · 3 nights · 7 seats
Four days across Lombok with your own local rider — mountain air, an island with nobody on it, a coast without a single hotel. Everything on the road is included, and none of it is your problem.
Why we exist
Most people leave Lombok having never really met it. They see it through a van window, on a schedule somebody else wrote, at the three places every schedule includes. They go home with the same nine photographs as everyone else.
We grew up on these roads. We know which turning opens onto the view, which family cooks the best lunch on the island, which hour to arrive at the water before anyone else does. None of that fits inside a bus, and none of it is on a map.
So we built the trip we kept wishing existed. Small enough to be personal. Local enough to be real. Organised enough that the only thing you have to think about is the road in front of you.
Marie, Ivan & Fauzan — founders
How it works
Everything else about the trip can flex. These four are why it works at all.
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You ride behind someone who grew up here. No licence, no experience, nothing to learn. You hold on and look around — that's the whole skill.
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Seven guests, seven riders, one small group. Small enough to stop when something is worth stopping for, and to eat where a tour bus never could.
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Not the route a map suggests. The route we ride ourselves — which takes longer, costs more in fuel, and is the entire point.
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Bikes, fuel, beds, three meals a day, the boat, the tickets, the tent. You bring a small bag and a swimsuit.
The loop · four waypoints
You cross Lombok twice. Each day looks, smells and sounds nothing like the one before it. The four days below are in order — Sembalun, the island, Ekas, then home to Senggigi.
We leave Senggigi in the morning and follow the coast north, then climb into the Sembalun valley — cooler air, garlic fields and Rinjani standing over everything. You swim under a jungle waterfall that will almost certainly be yours alone — we get there before anything with four wheels can. The sun goes down from Bukit Selong, looking out over the whole valley, and you sleep with the mountain outside the window.
Down from the mountains to the east coast, with a stop for strawberries at the hill farm on the way — because that is somehow a thing here — then a private boat across to an island with nobody on it. Not a ferry, not a day tour. You swim, you snorkel, you climb to the viewpoint, you relax. When the sun goes down we light a fire on the sand, dinner comes from a local warung, and you sleep in a tent on the beach with Lombok's lights flickering across the water.
Boat back after sunrise and breakfast, a stop at a Sasak village on the way, then south to Ekas bay — a surf coast most visitors never reach. Beaches where the only footprints are the ones you just made. The afternoon on cliffs above a reef that runs for kilometres, then a short hike up for sunset. Tonight: a room by the sea, and the first hot shower in two days.
The last morning goes inland instead of straight home: waterfalls, rice terraces, and time to learn something real about Lombok's cultures from the people who live them. After lunch we take the coast road back, the views getting better all the way to Senggigi. We reach our start point together by around five in the afternoon, and the evening is your own. Four days, around 370 kilometres, and an island you can now say something real about.
Off the map
Sembalun, Ekas, Senggigi — the places are no secret. The roads between them are. It took months and a great deal of fuel to find them, some aren't on Google Maps, and the island you sleep on has no hotel, no road, and no other operator running trips to it.
Once your seat is confirmed you get all of it — the full route, where you sleep each night, what to pack — seven days before you ride. Every photograph on this page is ours, taken on this year's trips.
What's included
From the moment we meet you on the morning of day one, until you're back on day four, everything on the road is already paid for.
No hidden extras and no optional upgrades sold to you on the road. Bring a small bag, sunscreen, a swimsuit and a light rain jacket — we carry the rest.
Honestly
We'd rather tell you now than have you on the wrong trip in November.
If the second list sounds more like you, message us anyway — we know the operators who do those things well, and we'll happily point you at them.
The people
Three of us started Pulau Loop, and you will deal with at least one of us directly. There is no call centre, no booking desk, and nobody in an office in another country deciding what your trip looks like.
They're from the villages the loop passes through, they know the roads because they use them, and they're paid a full day rate rather than a wage that depends on your tip. If you want to tip them they'll be glad — but they're not counting on it to get through the month.
We rode the whole loop ourselves in September 2026, before we sold a single seat. Every photograph on this page comes from that trip. What we don't have yet is a wall of reviews, because you'd be among the first. We'd rather say that plainly than invent them.
Price & departures
Rp4.8M
≈ US$290 · £230 · €270
per person · all in
Four days, three nights and your own rider — with three meals a day, every bed, the boat and every ticket already in it.
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We set the departure dates. Seven seats on each one, and the closest dates go first.
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A 60% deposit secures your seat and your own rider. Until then, the seat stays open to anyone.
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The balance is paid in full two days before departure. After that there's nothing left to plan — just show up.
Upcoming departures
Every departure runs Thursday to Sunday. Dates you want aren't listed? Message us — if a group of you want to ride together we can usually open a departure. Deposit by bank transfer or Wise; balance two days before you ride. All prices in Rupiah.
Before you ask
Answered the way we'd answer it on the phone. If what you want to know isn't here, ask Marie directly — she replies herself, usually within a few hours.
No. You ride pillion, behind your own local rider, for all four days. No licence, no experience, no confidence on a bike required.
If you do hold a valid licence and would rather ride yourself, say so when you book — we can arrange it on most of the route.
Not at all — most of our guests haven't. Your rider does this every week, the bike is a comfortable automatic with a proper seat and a backrest bag, and the pace is set by the slowest person in the group, never the fastest.
Probably not. The physical requirements are: sitting comfortably for two to four hours a day, broken into stretches, and a short walk on uneven ground twice. Nothing else. Tell us about anything that affects mobility and we'll be honest about whether it works.
Between two and four, split into stretches of 45 minutes to an hour. This isn't a driving holiday — the riding is how you get between the parts of the day that matter.
Most of our guests come alone. Seven people, seven riders, four days — by the second evening nobody is a stranger. You also always have your own rider, so you're never the spare person in a group of couples.
Lombok, starting and finishing in Senggigi. You cross the island twice — north to Sembalun in the foothills of Rinjani, over to the east coast and out by private boat to an island, south to Ekas bay, then back through the interior. Around 370 kilometres in total.
The exact roads, the guesthouses and a packing list come to you seven days before you ride, once your seat is confirmed.
As safe as we can make it. A helmet for everyone, riders who have ridden these roads their whole lives, maintained bikes checked every morning, and a group small enough that nobody gets separated. We ride at the pace of the most nervous person in the group.
The nearest hospital to most of the route is in Mataram, and we know where every clinic along the way is. Travel insurance is not included, so please arrange your own before you come — any policy that covers riding pillion.
We ride. Rain here is warm and usually over within the hour — bring a light rain jacket and you'll barely notice it. If a road is genuinely unsafe we take a different one, which is one advantage of not being locked into a published route.
Your rider stops, the group stops. We carry a first-aid kit and we know where the clinics are. If you can't continue, we get you back to Senggigi. Travel insurance is yours to arrange — please don't come without it.
On most of the route, yes. On the island, patchy to none. We'd gently suggest treating that as part of what you're paying for.
Two nights in simple local guesthouses — a private room, your own bathroom, hot water on the third night. One night in a tent on the sand, which we bring, pitch and pack up for you.
A basic one. Honest answer: night two is camping. That's the trade for having an entire island to yourselves, and for most people it turns out to be the night they remember.
Three meals a day are included — from lunch on day one to lunch on day four — and most of it is local: warungs along the road, a Sasak village, and dinner on the sand beside the fire. Tell us about vegetarian, vegan, allergies or anything else when you book and we'll handle it quietly rather than making it a thing at every table.
Bring a small soft bag for the four days — it travels on the bike with you. Anything bigger stays safely in Senggigi until you get back.
A small soft bag, sunscreen, a swimsuit, a light rain jacket, closed shoes for walking, and something warm for the first night — the mountains get properly cold. A full list comes with your route seven days before.
A 60% deposit by bank transfer or Wise confirms your seat. The remaining 40% is paid in full two days before departure. All prices are in Rupiah.
Because we'd rather talk to you first. We confirm the seat is real and the date works before anyone sends money.
Cancel more than 30 days before departure and we return the deposit in full, less transfer fees. Between 30 and 7 days we'll move you onto any other departure in the following six months. Inside 7 days the deposit covers what we've already paid the guesthouses, the boat and the riders.
If we cancel — weather, safety, anything at all — you choose: a full refund, or another date.
Once, free of charge, up to 7 days before departure, subject to seats being available on the date you want.
Most nationalities get a visa on arrival in Indonesia, but this changes and it's yours to check against your own passport. We can't advise on it.
The day before. We meet you in Senggigi early on the morning of day one, to go through the route, fit your helmet and answer anything left before we ride. Don't book a flight that lands the same morning — you'd miss the start.
You're back in Senggigi by around five in the afternoon on day four, and the evening is your own. Don't book a flight out the same evening — and honestly, stay the night. That night isn't included, but we'll happily point you to somewhere good.
It's rideable all year. April to October is the drier stretch; November to March is greener, quieter, and comes with warm afternoon rain. We ride in both.
Still something on your mind?
Ask Marie
Seven seats. That's the whole trip.
One message is all it takes. Tell us roughly when you'd like to come and we'll tell you honestly what's open, what it costs, and whether this is the right trip for you. No deposit, no pressure, no automated anything — Marie writes back herself.
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