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 Summary: Length: 30 - 40 kms, Total descent: 670m. A tough day for those that don’t like uphill, excellent singletrack both redmud and forest trail. Can be done the other way around, but means longer transit times.
After an hours transit back up to the Central Volcanoes, this trail starts on the northern side of Mt. Batu Karu, snaking its way east back to Lake Bratan, where we started on the first day. The scenery on this side of the volcanoes is very different; wilder, steeper and more dramatic. After a short but sweet down hill section this trail starts as it means to go on…..up. After crossing a stream you follow concrete singletrack (designed for motor bikes) up a challenging gradient onto a red-mud road that soon turns into singletrack. The track climbs slowly from 850m to 1550m on sometimes rocky rutted surfaces, past remote homesteads and passion-fruit and mangosteen trees. Having finished the climb and with great views down to Lake Tamblingan, you start a roller coaster ride down to the lake where lunch awaits.
The afternoon can go one of many ways, most of them with a down-hill emphasis, all ending back at Lake Bratan where we stay in a lake-side lodge.
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