About

Travel with people
who actually live it

Not a slogan, an address: part of the team really lives in Bali.

Why we exist

Because we didn’t want to see Bali through a coach window

Avo Travels came from a sentence: “someone should do this properly.” Most tours from Turkey to Asia were the same: crowded coaches, a rushed rhythm, hidden extras, and coming home without having touched the country. We wanted to be a Bali tour company — on the boutique side, not in the crowd.

We built the opposite. Part of the team lives in Bali — which warung actually cooks well, what time to reach a waterfall, which beach works in which season. Not from a guidebook. From daily life.

We have one group product: Bali Experience. We run it in small groups, with the same care every time. The rest is fully private — because every holiday should look like the people taking it. All Bali tours sit on one page.

How we work

Three principles

A person first, then a booking

No automated quotes, no online checkout. We talk with every guest and build the plan together. Slow, but right.

Transparency is not negotiable

Included / excluded is in writing from the start. “Surprise extra” is not in our dictionary — the price is the price.

Nothing that isn’t local

Restaurants, drivers, guides — people we know on the ground and actually work with.

The founders

Between Istanbul and Bali

Furkan founded AVO; Yasemin has been on the founding team since the earliest days. One of them is on the ground in Bali, the other at the planning end in Istanbul — over 10,000 kilometres and five hours apart. In practice that means someone is awake for most of the day.

Founder · Bali

Furkan Çetinkaya

He lives in Bali and runs the operation himself. How a day is built — from the welcome at the airport to the table at dinner — is his job. Which hour a temple is quiet, which road closes after rain: he learned it by turning up. And he is on the ground for every trip.

Founding team · Guest experience · Istanbul

Yasemin Dinler

She plans from Istanbul and is the person you deal with from the first message to the flight home. Working out what a question is really asking, making the dates fit, and keeping everything in writing — that is her work. The voice you meet before you reach Bali is usually Yasemin’s.

The team

A small team, a lot of care

A core crew that plans from Istanbul, lives in Bali, and runs on the ground. Yasemin in Istanbul, Furkan in Bali, with the local team on the island behind them.