Bali 2024 – Diving and Activities
We met Nico on our dive safari on the Wellenreng in Raja Ampat in 2023, there the plot of visiting Bali evolved. We first thought, yeah, that’s the regular let’s meet again from the dive guide, but Nico kept his word! So we went on a second round on the quest for hilariously well hidden pygmy seahorses in Indonesia, this time on Bali! First off the trip was absolutely amazing und incredibly well planned and organized by Nico.
He has managed everything: location, accommodation, transfers, breakfast, lunch, dive spots, tanks, dive guiding and the entertainment program!
We flew from Munich to Denpasar and we were welcomed by our driver.
After a picturesque 3 hours ride, we reached Amed on the North East Side of the island.
The Villa
We lived all together in a very nice Villa with 4 bedrooms and pool.
The house was in the middle of the village Bedulu and directly at Bintang (Bhima) Beach.
The first 3 days we spent diving.
The north east shore of Bali is a great place for macro photographers!
The transfer to every diving spot went perfectly smooth as Nico had organized drivers who navigated us through the sometimes chaotic traffic.
On each diving spot the tanks were already there – properly filled – and ready to pick up.
On some spots we got some help from local people carrying our gear.
A list of all the diving spots can be found at the end of the blogpost.
On our first activity day we visited the Lempuyang Temple.
This Hindu temple is a wonderful place, but a little bit crowdy because of many tourists wanting to have the famous picture. It is faked with a mirror, but we also wanted to have it :-D
Normally it is not allowed to enter the temple, only for people who want to pray. But Nico bought offerings and was able to manage that we were allowed to enter the temple together with a friendly supervisor from the temple.
We had a briefing about the praying ceremony and did the ceremony together. It was a great experience as you are not able to get immersed by an unknown and foreign culture on regular trips.
The next 4 days we spent again diving.
On one of these days Nico had planned a special Dinner.
We were picked up by fishing boats right in front of our Villa for a Sunset cruise.
After a scenic 1 hour ride with a couple of sundowners we reached our target, a very beautiful restaurant at another beach near Lipah.
After the planned diving days, we had again 2 days of activities.
We had a hike on Mount Batur, a 1717m high, active volcano!
Together with a local guide we started to climb the volcano.
Two of us had problems with walking, but for some money the local motocross Taxi guy & lady were happy to help. I was really thankful for them, as was in bad shape – generally and due to the accident – and the tour would have been a torture for me without the help of my biker lady. The terrain was serious and she pushed the bike with her additional 100+ kg load smoothly up the hill!
On the top we were served steamed Banana cooked in the steam from the hissing volcano.
Tirta Empul Temple
And after the Waterfall we visited a water temple with a holy spring to get finally clean from outside and inside.
It was a great experience, but the water ceremony is taking a little bit of time and therefore the participants became a little bit fresh after some time in the water :-D But nobody said cleansing your soul will be easy!
I was lucky, as I am really afraid of cold water, but could not join the ceremony because of my leg injury, i got from falling from a small bridge after a night dive.
Ujung Palace
A beautiful palace with interesting history.
After 10 Days of diving and activities unfortunately it was time to go back home.
Thank you so much for making this trip truly amazing and for organizing simply everything!
Hopefully we can come back sometime.
Warm greetings
Kerstin, Gabi, Michi, Hu and Jogy
List of the dive spots:
| Amed | Marina |
| Lipha Beach | |
| Lean Wall | |
| Bunutan | |
| Japanese Wrack | |
| Melasti | |
| Pyramids | |
| Tulamben | US Liberty |
| The Wall | |
| Coral Garden | |
| Seraya | Slope |
| Reef | |
| Kubu | The Wall |
| Boga Wreck | |
| Nuba | |
| Sidem | Slope |