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Welcome to Bali the warm heart of tropical paradise. Get ready for one of the best diving destinations in the world. Golden beaches, clear turquoise water teeming with marine life, above water, a diversity of races and cultures coming together in cultural blend rich with colors. Whether you seek the tranquility of snorkeling in a shallow coral garden, or discovered the underwater world of Bali by diving, and true paradise you can feel. Tiny Nusa Penida is probably the best-known Bali dive destination, but there plenty of others-Bali dive destinations. From the sunken wreck, many big pelagics, underwater cave, great steep wall with unlimited depth, also river adventurer with rafting, colorful culture and Balinese life. Bali has it all!

>> JELADI WILIS (Sanur)
Reef type : Slope, white sandy bottom
Access : 20 minutes by boat
Visibility : 8 meters (Can reach 15 meters on occasion)
Current : Usually gentle but can be strong
Coral : Best hard coral variety, abundant soft coral
Fish : Surprising good variety
Highlights : Various coral species, schooling barracuda
Others : Feeding frenzy on fresh spawn
Another beautiful Sanur dive just few minutes to reach from the shore. As you descent, you see floor carpeted with hard coral and soft corals – impressive anemones fish, giant boulders coral buried in sand. Adding yet another dimension to reefs already inhabited with diversity of colorful creatures – high action dives with a wide variety of marine life.
>> PENJOR POINT (Sanur)
Reef type : Slope, white sandy bottom
Access : 15 minutes by boat
Visibility : 8 meters (Can reach 15 meters on occasion)
Current : Usually gentle but can be strong
Coral : Best hard coral variety, abundant soft coral
Fish : Surprising good variety
Highlights : Various coral species, schooling barracuda
Others : Feeding frenzy on fresh spawn
Has a good reef diving, carpeted with hard coral and soft coral - Great visibility, colorful corals with school of pelagic fish, and where a thousand colorful agile reef fish are darting all over the place that reveals the vibrant marine world underneath. Look for schooling of sweet lips, white tip reef sharks, manta rays even huge of pelagics. Expect to discover pristine diving.
>> BEGINNER POINT (Sanur)
Reef type : Coral reef, white sandy bottom
Access : 10 minutes by boat
Visibility : 8 meters (Can reach 15 meters on occasion)
Current : Usually gentle but can be strong
Coral : Limited coverage, few species
Fish : Surprising good variety
Highlights : Schooling of bath fish, sweet lips, parrot fish.
Others : Feeding frenzy on fresh spawn
This site is very ideal for the people who would like to visit another part of different world which never been seeing before. With diving the different will come true - great variety of marine life living in their habitats, and variety of reef corals life. Please note it is good for dive courses and general introduction to Bali underwater world.
>> NUSA PENIDA (S.D Point, TOYA Pakeh Point, Sampalan Point, Ped Point)
Reef type : Corals garden, slopes
Access : 40 minutes by boat (From Sanur beach)
Visibility : Good, 15-25 meters
Current : Moderate to very strong
Coral : Very good variety of hard corals Excellent stand of soft corals
Fish : Excellent variety, many pelagics
Highlights : School of various marine life, large pelagics Various coral species, manta, giant travelly fish, even sun fish and sharks
Others : Can be very cold; current are unpredictable
This Bali best dive site has a very different characteristic of the sea bottom. Home for huge varieties of marine life, carpeting by the corals, with good visibility, and scores of large pelagics, including manta rays, barracuda even sun fish. A definite must see.
>> NUSA LEMBONGAN (Sakenan Point, Blue Corner )
Reef type : Corals garden, slopes
Access : 40 minutes by boat (From Sanur beach)
Visibility : Good, 15-25 meters
Current : Moderate to very strong
Coral : Very good variety of corals
Fish : Excellent variety, many pelagics
Highlights : Large school of sweet lips, napoleon wrasses turtle, sharks small fish darting all over the place
Others : The drift diving is particularly recommended
Offers more challenging diving, strong currents and promise good visibility with dozen of marine life especially home of sweet lips with dramatic underwater corals terrain highlighted by thriving reefs and abundant soft corals, includes many of the more exciting.
>> MANTA POINT (Nusa Penida)
Reef type : Bustle hard corals, slopes
Access : 1 hour by boat (From Sanur Beach)
Visibility : 10-20 meters
Current : Moderate to very strong
Coral : Very good variety of hard corals Excellent stand of soft corals
Fish : Many large pelagics
Highlights : Schooling of manta rays played in shallow water
Others : Can be very cold water, and surge lead to rough sea conditions
The diving was pristine, where the party never ends. It’s like diving in a giant aquarium to see the dancing manta in their home, with dramatic underwater terrain highlighted by see the sea floor carpeted with coral in every direction. Larger pelagic includes manta ray, barracuda, giant travelly fish and small fish darting all over the place.
>> CRYSTAL BAY ( Mola – mola often seen in this site)
Reef type : Corals garden, slopes
Access : 40 minutes by boat (From Sanur beach)
Visibility : 15-25 meters
Current : Moderate to very strong
Coral : Very good variety of hard corals Excellent stand of soft corals
Fish : Excellent variety, many larger pelagics
Highlights : Large school of sweet lips, napoleon wrasses sharks small fish darting all over the place
Others : Can be very cold, current are unpredictableand often fierce
This is another site of the crystal bay as one of the favorite dive destination in this island to purpose to see the mola – mola (sunfish) hang on the wall with swept by strong current. The divers can visit amazing of huge the lazy playing sunfish in dark blue water with good corals, also good place to catch other larger pelagic activity including sharks at relatively shallow water, jack fish barracuda and manta rays. Strong currents sometimes sweep the bay.
>> MENJANGAN ISLAND (N.W. Bali)
Reef type : Walls, particularly rugged; wreck
Access : 30 minutes by boat from main island
Visibility : Excellent to superb, 25-45 meters
Current : Very slight
Coral : Very good numbers and variety; abundant soft corals
Fish : Good number, only average variety
Highlights : “Anker” Wreck
Others : The drift diving is particularly recommended
Menjangan is small island of the coast of Bali on the northwest side that is reserved as a National Park. This island has many different points to dive from depending on the divers skill and objectives. One site includes a bed of sea snakes and resident sharks.
>> PADANG BAI
Reef type : Flat-bottom mixed reef and bottom, some wall
Access : 10 - 15 minutes by boat
Visibility : Variable; poor to good, 6 – 15 meters
Current : Usually gentle but up to 3 knots
Coral : Scattered outcrops, fair variety
Fish : Good variety and numbers
Highlights : Napoleon wrasse, schooling sweet lips, site also hosts sharks
Others : The drift diving is particularly recommended
This picturesque bay, surrounded by majestic cliffs and hills, offers excellent diving with a great variety of marine life. White sandy bottom and exceptionally clear cool water with many species of hard corals, plus numerous species of soft corals. A colorfull reef.
>> GILI TEPEKONG (Sharks point)
Reef type : Drop-off, steep slopes
Access : 30 - 40 minutes by boat
Visibility : Variable; poor to good, 6 – 20 meters
Current : Can be extremely strong, more than 5 knots
Coral : Excellent coverage and variety
Fish : Literally teeming with fish
Highlights : Tepekong’s canyon, good chance to see pelagics
Others : Very tricky currents, strong surge; uncomfortably cold
Just offshore from Candi Dasa is tiny Tepekong, a little outcrop that offers some spectacular diving. The coral wall is steep, the water is cold, and the current can be strong. Drifting trough the canyon offers an unforgettable underwater experience. Please note; experienced divers only recommended. As a currents can be unpredictable.
>> DROP-OFF (Tulamben)
Reef type : Slopes, steep drop-off
Access : Beach entry
Visibility : fair to good, 15-25 meters
Current : None or moderate
Coral : Limited coverage, few species
Fish : Superb variety, excellent numbers
Highlights : Density of fish on the deep wall
Others : Full moon night dive on the wall
It is here, in one of the most pristine of wall dive site at the east part of Bali, that contains dozen of marine life, and surprising variety of corals. Starts of with slope and climaxes with a steep wall drops with soft coral growth, good visibility, and small fish darting all over the place.
>> SHIPWRECK (Tulamben)
Reef type : Liberty wreck, slopes
Access : Beach, ship is 20 meters offshore
Visibility : fair to good, 15-25 meters
Current : None or moderate
Coral : Good growth of encrusting animals on wreck
Fish : Superb variety, excellent numbers
Highlights : Full moon night dive on wreck
Others : Fish on wreck are regularly fed and quite tame
Tulamben is a fun dive for all types of divers. The wreck is the U.S Liberty, a cargo ship that sunk during World War II. Now it has an abundance of coral, sponges, gorgonia, schooling of big eye travelly fish and a wide array tame and friendly fish.
>> AMED (Jemeluk)
Reef type : Coastal reef; flats, slope and wall
Access : Beach entry or 10 minutes by boat
Visibility : fair to very good, 15-25 meters
Current : Mild
Coral : Very good variety of hard corals, Excellent stand of soft corals
Fish : Superb variety, excellent numbers
Highlights : Density of fish on the deep wall; coral species just of the beach
Others : A wide array tame and friendly fish
From the beach, Amed offers an excellent site for training dives. It has a flat bottom lagoon for instruction and a coral reef only 5 minutes swim away. This location is highly recommended for introductory dives. By boat, Amed has a nice wall dive just a few minutes away. It is a fun, easy dive for everyone.
 
 


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