Bali’s Dive Sites offer a wide variety of underwater environments. From drift diving at Nusa Penida, muck diving at Secret Bay or Amed, the famous Liberty ship wreck at Tulamben, the vertical walls at Gili Biaha, the sea mounts and shark caves of Gili Tepekong or Manta Rays at Manta Point, or combine all these dives into a customised dive safari. Indonesia diving is among the best in the world, Bali Diving is an easy and inexpensive way to see the best of Indonesian diving. Bali has something for every diver and diving certification level. Bali’s reef are amongst the richest and most diverse in the world and are home to hard and soft coral, sea fans and a kaleidoscope of colorful tropical fish.
Map of dive sites around Bali, Indonesia.
This is one of Bali's most popular sites. A beautiful boat ride of about 45 minutes along the coast line of Nusa Penida brings you to Manta Point. Manta sightings here are very common with some very large animals being seen. This site is very open to the elements so sometimes it is not possible to dive this site.
Crystal Bay
Crystal Bay is named due to its fantastic visibility. This site consists of a little bay in shallow water that offers excellent opportunities for photos, before moving down into deep drop offs. Superb coral is only matched by the equally superb marine life. This is an excellent place to locate the Mola Mola. Divers will descend in the bay before rounding the corner to the deeper depths. Here, just a few metres from the corner, is the best place to try to find the Sunfish.
Blue Lagoon
With the bluest waters in all of Bali, Blue Lagoon certainly lives up to its name. With sloping corals to the right side and a beautiful wall dive to the left side Blue Lagoon has something for everyone. The corals are in very good condition and the visibility is often the best on the island. There are many things to be found here from occasional reef shark to cowfish, cuttlefish and octopus. Padang Bai is also known as a good spot to find frog fish or maybe leaf scorpion fish. Blue Lagoon is a 5 minute boat journey from the main beach in Padang Bai. For those divers who have just started out, through to the experienced diver, the 6 dive sites located just off the beach at Padang Bai provide something for everyone. Blue Lagoon is our house reef; each dive site offering something slightly different. Included in the dive sites is a small fishing boat wreck at Tanjung Jepun.
Mimpang
Mimpang is comprised of a series of underwater and out of the water pinnacles. We often find sharks either lying on the sandy bottom or swimming around in the shallows above. The pinnacles provide some spectacular wall diving and due to the proximity of the site to the Lombok straits and the currents around the site, this dive is always exciting! Make sure you look out into the blue just in case you see something extra special, like Mola Mola.
Tepekong
Tepekong is a small island, a 10 minute boat ride from the resort. Underwater the rock formations are dramatic and even include an underwater cave swim through that starts at around 26m and goes up to around 18m. On the north side of the island also lies a large cave in which it is often possible to find juvenile white tipped reef sharks swimming around.
Amed
Amed is a 1 ½ hour drive from Padang Bai and has some of the best macro life in Bali. Set against a backdrop of black sand and often stunning walls, it is a great place to take some truly memorable photographs. Pyramids dive site: 5 minutes from the main beach in Amed, Pyramids is a sandy slope that leads down to a series of man-made pyramids- hence the name! The pyramids are made out of a mixture of tires and metal boxes and house some extraordinary macro life. If you get far enough along the site for you to turn the corner, the sandy bottom turns into a beautiful wall where there is sometimes a good chance of spotting turtles. Jemeluk dive site: A 2 minute boat ride from the main beach in Amed, Jemeluk is probably one of the most spectacular wall dives in the whole of Bali. Bunutan dive sites: A 10 minute boat ride from the main beach on Amed, Bunutan is a sandy slope with occasional large coral bommies. Moray eels, lion fish and nudibranchs can easily be found here.
Tulamben
Although the famous USAT Liberty shipwreck is the main attraction for divers at Tulamben, there are several other great sites here too. At the eastern end is the famous Tulamben Drop-Off, a sheer wall teeming with marine life. Further around there are vast slopes and rock formations dropping into the deep and the reef in the main bay has been a favorite for some of the world’s top photographers for many years. All of this coupled with very little current, makes absolutely perfect conditions. All the diving here is shore diving over pebble rocks.
Nusa Penida (Ped, S.D, Sental, Mangrove, Toyapakeh, Malibu Point)
Nusa Penida is often called the ‘Sister Island’ of Bali, these dive sites can be reached in less than 30 minutes on our speedboat and you are ready to jump in the crystal clear water. We have a lot of different dive site here with colorful corals and all of the tropical fish from Nemo to Napoleon, sharks and turtles.
These dive sites are mainly drift diving sites.
Gili Biaha
This small crescent-shaped island lies about 30 minutes by boat from Padang Bai.
This wall dive is encrusted with rich corals and the nutrient-rich current attracts thousands of fish species. There is a large cavern where you can often find white tip reef sharks and a slightly smaller cave also full of life including brightly colored nudibranchs, mantis shrimps and blue ribbon eels. As you look out to sea you'll notice the water is thick with huge schools of fish swimming past. Currents can be strong here and there is often some surge when jumping in.
Welcome to Mola Mola Sunfish Bali
The Ocean Sunfish or Mola Mola is the heaviest bony fish in the world with an average adult weight of 1,000kg or 2,200lb. The fish is native to tropical and temperate waters around the world. Mola Mola can be as tall as it is long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended.
Mola Mola live on a diet that consists mainly of jellyfish, but because this diet is poor in nutrition they have to consume large amounts of food in order to develop and maintain their great bulk. Female Mola Mola produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate(300 million at a time), Mola fry resemble miniature puffer fish about 2.5mm long.
Mola Mola adults have few natural predators, but sometimes orcas or sharks will consume them. Mola are frequently, though accidentally, caught in fishing nets and are also vulnerable to harm from floating trash and plastic bags. This litter can resemble jellyfish which is its main diet; the bags can choke and suffocate the fish or fill its stomach to the extent that it starves. Many of the Mola various names elude to its unique flattened shape. Its specific name, mola, is Latin for ‘Millstone’ which the fish resembles in its grey colour, rough texture and rounded body. Its common English name, sunfish, refers to the animals’ habit of sunbathing at the surface of the water.
The Mola family includes puffer fish, porcupine fish and filefish. It shares its traits with members of this order, including four fused teeth that form a beak shape. Indeed, sunfish larvae resemble spiky puffer fish more than they resemble adult Molas. Young sunfish school for protection, but this behavior is abandoned as they grow older.
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After having breakfast in a nice restaurant with a beautiful volcano view, we will take you to experience riding down-hill through quiet villages that expose the heart of Bali. In these traditional villages we show the original house architecture, local farmers at work in their field, children will wave, farmers cut grass for their cows and so on. Besides all those things we also stop in some temples, rice paddies and tropical plantations.
This elephant riding program offers you the opportunity to explore the countryside and forests of Bali from the back of an elephant. The trip will take you along the riverbanks of the Melangit River and along the paddy fields with lots of farmers. After the elephant riding, which takes about 40 minutes, you'll have time to play with the elephants and to see various kinds of tricks done by the animals, such as painting, playing football and so on.