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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. If you dive in one of the diving sites around Bali you will stumble with several fish like barracudas, stingrays, turtles and other exotic and colorful species.
Best Dive Sites in Bali
1. Tulamben - Liberty Wreck This village settled in east of Bali around 2 hours drive from the city. This little village has become popular as the best diving destination. Why and what makes Tulamben famous? The Liberty Wreck. This ship was submerged on the shallow reef of Tulamben beach after being torpedoed by the Japanese foreces in the early 1942. After a while also damaged by the eruption of mount Agung in 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 wreck of the USS Liberty ship today has been covered by many beautiful and colorful corals and sponges and famous as the home of exotic fish like barracuda and bumphead parrotfish.
2. Nusa Penida - Manta Encounter The island of Nusa Penida can be seen in the southeast coast of Bali. The island must be visited by boat which will takes around one to two hours of boating. 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 spot 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. Various kind of fish like Marble rays, sharks, eagle rays and the mola mola fish as the superstars of this diving site are waiting for you if the current is good enough.
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. This diving site has a large colony of garden eels and others beautiful gorgonians, sea fans and a large blocks of coral which are acting as cleaner stations with cleaner shrimps. This diving site is good for every level of experiences.
5. Pemuteran Bay - The Secret Bay Pemuteran Bay is not far away from the Menjangan National Park, it takes around 10 minutes ro the east from Menjangan National Park. 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. This site is a great place for the rare and most unusual underwater creatures. Many divers consider this spot as the heaven for underwater photography specially the macro photography. So get the camera ready.
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