---
node: spot_lombok_tetebatu
type: spot
slug: tetebatu
destination: dest_lombok
title: "Tetebatu"
lead: "Tetebatu is a village on the southern slopes of Mount Rinjani at about 600 metres, ringed by rice terraces and tobacco fields. It is where people go on Lombok for cool air, walking and a view of the volcano from below."
published: 2026-08-17
updated: 2026-08-17
image_file: spot_lombok_tetebatu.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sawah_van_Tetebatu_op_Lombok,_KITLV_D13464.tiff"
image_author: "Steijlen, Fridus"
image_license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

## Overview

The village sits high enough that the heat of the coast drops away, and the land around it is worked in terraces that step down the slope. Rice is the main crop, with tobacco drying in tall barns between harvests. Above the fields the ground turns to monkey forest and then to the national park boundary, and the paths that cross the farmland are public and much walked. Rinjani stands over all of it when the cloud lifts, usually early.

## Highlights

Walk out to the Ulem-Ulem or Jukut waterfalls through the fields — both are a few kilometres and the route is the attraction as much as the falls. The monkey forest road climbs into tall trees where long-tailed macaques live alongside the black Javan lutungs that give the place its name. Come early for the mountain view and expect afternoon cloud, and bring something warm: at this height the evenings are genuinely cool by Lombok standards.