Crafted journeys for curious souls.
[ About ]Rāsa Voyā offers small-group tours that move gently beyond the clichés — weaving together culture, craft, food, and landscapes across Bali and Indonesia. Rāsa Voyā invites thoughtful travellers to explore the archipelago differently — with curiosity, respect, and a sense of wonder.
Founded by seasoned travel curators Michelle Matthews and Fiona Brook, we design small-group tours that move gently beyond the clichés — weaving together culture, craft, food, and landscapes across Bali, and across the Indonesian archipelago. Our itineraries uncover places and people far from the tourist trail, creating space for meaningful connection, quiet discovery, and authentic experiences. With a focus on comfort, creativity, and slow travel, Rāsa Voyā invites thoughtful travellers to explore the archipelago differently — with curiosity, respect, and a sense of wonder.
Featured tour
Beyond the Postcard: A 12-Day Journey Through Bali's Hidden Heart
This is not the Bali you think you know. 12 days, 11 nights | Limited to 6 guests
Our journey begins where Bali's story first captivated the world—at Tandjung Sari in Sanur, the legendary beachside retreat that introduced discerning travellers to the island's magic in the 1960s. Here, amid frangipani-scented gardens and traditional thatched pavilions, you'll understand why Bali became synonymous with paradise.
But we're just beginning.
From the coast, we turn inland, following ancient paths into Bali's verdant interior. In Tabanan Regency, where emerald rice terraces cascade down volcanic slopes and village life moves to rhythms unchanged for generations, you'll discover what happens when you slow down enough to see truly. The air is different here—cooler, sweeter, alive with the sound of water flowing through subak irrigation channels that have sustained communities for a thousand years.
We climb higher into the mountains to mist-shrouded Munduk, where waterfalls hide in jungle folds and morning coffee tastes like the volcanic soil it grew from. Then onward to Kintamani's dramatic caldera, where you'll witness landscapes that remind you why mountains have always been considered sacred.
Our path leads east through the terraced valleys of Sidemen—a place so timelessly beautiful it feels like stepping into a living painting—before descending to Bali's wild black sand coast, where the island reveals an entirely different face. Here, traditional fishing villages meet dramatic volcanic beaches, and the ocean carries a distinct energy entirely.
We conclude in Ubud, but not the Ubud of crowded markets and tour buses. By now, you'll see this cultural heartland through different eyes—knowing which paths to take, which sounds to listen for, which moments to pause and simply be.
Throughout these twelve days, you'll stay in carefully selected properties that honour Bali's authentic spirit while offering genuine comfort. You'll witness rituals that tourists never see. You'll taste flavours you didn't know existed. And perhaps most importantly, you'll have time—time to wander, to wonder, to let this extraordinary island reveal itself at its own pace.
This is Bali as it was meant to be experienced: slowly, deeply, and with all your senses awakened.
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Why start Rasa Voya?
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Michelle Matthew & Fiona Brook
Fiona and Michelle are relentless travellers whose shared love for Indonesia was uncovered and strengthened at the Ubud Food Festival. This festival became their ritual and the starting point for further adventures east, west, and north of Bali. Their trip to Sumba sparked Rasa Voya. Sumba is a stunning island and a stark contrast to Bali. Their in-depth research and road-trip-style exploration led to incredible discoveries and experiences across the island. They knew they would return and take others with them.
Indonesia isn’t a single destination so much as a whole universe strung across more than 17,000 islands — a place where volcanoes steam above emerald rice terraces, coral gardens glow beneath glassy seas, and rainforest canopies hide birds-of-paradise, monkies, and the quiet drama of life in the tropics. It’s home to some of the richest biodiversity on Earth, from Komodo dragons to kaleidoscopic reef fish, and a staggering range of landscapes: surf beaches, crater lakes, highland farms, sacred rivers, and remote savannahs. Just as diverse is the human story — hundreds of languages, living traditions, and ceremonies that shape daily life, from temple offerings and shadow puppetry to weaving, carving, and cuisine that changes island by island. Indonesia rewards the curious: the kind of traveller who wants beauty with context, flavour with provenance, and encounters that feel personal — not packaged.
In the meantime, their journeys back to Bali became missions to explore further and go deeper. There was never any rush to start the business; it naturally grew from what they loved, how they travel, and who they are. Rasa Voya became inevitable.
