We are a team of trained and experienced guides whom also act as your driver and serve you as a friend. Friends who will accompany you, not just to see, but to experience the real and unique Bali in a personalized, fun and relaxing yet ethical and professional manner. All of us are fluent in English, love people and are dedicated to making our clients into our lifelong friends.

Here are your Bali friends:

Putu Arnawa

Putu Arnawa is the founder of Balifriend Tours and has been working as tour guide and driver for since 1997 but still enjoy  his job. “Meeting, sharing stories and making friends with many different people from around the world is one of the main reasons why he is  still enjoying the job very much. Another main reason would be the  unique culture and endless beautiful landscapes of his beloved Bali Island. He wants to share these spirits of Bali  with many other people, not just by providing tours for them but also through his photographs. He likes to take photos and it would be his great pleasure to take photos together with you when you are visiting the island. Putu Arnawa is a university graduate with a degree in tourism. He previously worked for large corporations in the tourism industry  before starting his own successful tourism company. Also a professional photographer, Putu Arnawa has a passion for people, taking photos of them enjoying the natural beauty of Bali and instructing them in the art of photography.

Kadek Anto
After  obtaining his degree in tourism, Kadek went abroad to work  for an American cruise ship company. After  six years, he decided to settle back  in Bali, his home. He views his home island differently after coming back from abroad and loves many things in Bali even more than he did before.  Kadek is now very eager to share his observations and  share them with visitors to Bali. Guiding and driving people is not new to him, however, as during his studies he  got training in school as well as being trained on the job by Putu Arnawa during that time in the art of guiding/driving.

Rai Artha (Lolet)

Rai is our textile expert person. He has been involving in textile for many years including being part of a reputable textile foundation in Ubud. Now , he is willing to join us to share his knowledge in textile to our guests. 

Nyoman Gunawan

Nyoman is fun .  He has been working in different part of hotel industry including driving and guiding guests from star hotel Bali. To be more independent he decides to join our team .