Best Dive Spots in Bali - By: awayb

Bali island is your holiday destination which has won several years award as the best resort destination in the world. You can have everything's in Bali including famous diving sites. Breathtaking reef, wreck, canyon and wall dives, together with water temperatures of 27º and visibility of 30 metres make the Bali islands a diver’s paradise. You will encounter turtles, barracudas and stingrays and many more colourful and exotic species. You will love what you will experiences under the reef of Bali.

Bali Top Dive Sites

1. Tulamben - Liberty Wreck
Tulamben located in east of Bali around 2 hours drive from the central city. From just a little fishing village Tulamben has becoming the best diving sites destination in Bali. What makes the area famous? The Cargo USS Liberty Wreck. This ship was submerged on the shallow reef of Tulamben beach after being torpedoed by the Japanese foreces in the early 1942. Since the submerged the ship also got damaged by the eruption of mount Agung in the 1963. The Liberty ship was lies on a sandy slopes pararel to the shore line with depths ranging from 5 to 30m and what the best things about this spot is it can be enjoyed by snorkelers and divers. The Liberty wreck is wonderfully covered with beautiful colorful corals and sponges and well known as a home for barracuda and bumphead parrotfish.

2. Nusa Penida - Manta Encounter
The island of Nusa Penida can be seen in the southeast coast of Bali. It will take around 2 hours by boating to reach the island or the diving sites. On this spot you will find the ost dramatic scenery of deep vertical walls of coral reefs. You must try to dive on this spot because over here you will see the manta rays gathering around the shallow cleaning stations which can bee seen from 4 to 12m. You will be surprised as most of the occasions they will arrive out from nowhere and hover around the rocks. When they hovering around the rocks there will be a group of wrasse rise to clean them up. Simply a unique and amazing panorama.

3. Nusa Lembongan - The Blue Corner
This is a spectacular diving sites located near from the Nusa Penida diving sites. But this spot is only for divers who has some of experience because the unpredictable currents on the sites which is not always accessible for divers. If you are lucky to find good currents then you will see various kind of fish like marble rays, sharks, eagle rays and the superstar of this spot the mola mola fish.

4. Menjangan National Park - The Eel Parade
The Menjangan national park located in west of Bali around 2.5 hours drive from the city of Denpasar. The Menjangan diving sites has a large colony of garden eels and ther beautiful fish like the gorgonians, sea fans and all of them gathered around a large blocks of coral reef which is acting as the cleaning stations with shrimps as the cleaner. This diving site is good for every level of experiences.

5. Pemuteran Bay - The Secret Bay
This diving sites also located in the northwest coast of Bali and not far away from the Menjangan diving sites. It will take around 10 minutes from the Menjangan National Park to the east. Be prepared if you want to have a dive here as you will be diving on a fine black and gray volcanic sand and rubble NOT on a coral reef. Over here you will find the rare and most unusual underwater creatures. This spot is a heaven for underwater photography specially the macro lovers. make sure you get your camera ready.

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