Bali diving
Menjangan Island, easily accessible by boat direct from the resort, is renewed for its colorful corals, excellent visibility and endless varieties of tropical fishes, large and small.
Bali Diving Center is associated with PADI and equipped with full facilities. Expert Dive instructors and Balinese staff are ready to assist all diving and snorkeling trips.
Diving Around Menjangan Island
Menjangan DivingOnce out of the mouth the Bay, Mimpi boats can take you to the diving spots in less than 30 minutes. The island is surrounded with underwater walls, slopes and caves, and the excellent blue visibility offers some of the best diving experience in Bali.
The island is part of the Bali Barat National Park, a protected reserve area that encompasses 780 square kilometers. The names menjangan means “deer”. Because the island is in a protected position, currents and wind-generate waves are rarely a bother. The water can be clear-a snorkeler, distinct, 50 meters above and the rest of the time the visibility seldom drops to less than 25 meters.
Only 5 minutes by boat, in the narrow entrance channel leading into the resort's bay, is a site with delicate hard corals growing in tower-like structures. Colors were bright and vibrant in different shades of green and yellow. One area in particular has dozens of these two and three meter high coral towers, all closely packed together. Among the corals there are various gobies, blennies, lionfish, mandarin fish, nudibranchs and blue spotted trevally.
Other Points
diving BaliThe Garden Eel in the west tip of the island offers superb white sandy point with abundant garden eel population. With an approximate depth of 18 to 25 meters, it is also home to goby, shrimp and jowfish. Even manta ray may be occasionally spotted along its drop-off sites. The southern part, where three major points line up, has dynamic structural sites with dramatic vertical walls and several unique underwater caves along its middle part.
Pos 1 has an approximate depth of 1 to 3 meters with enormous coral reef as well as such varieties as batfish, bluefin travelly and giant travelly. Deeper sites along Cave Point and Pos 2 is known to feature several large species as the white and black tip reef shark as well as turtle. Frequent current flow along the southeastern corner of the island makes it a bit difficult to thoroughly discover the sites along the Bat Cave Point.
In the eastern tip coast stands Kelenting Sari, believed to be one of the oldest Hindu temples of Bali. The site just off the temple coast features enormous hard and soft coral formations. This lines up to Coral Garden in the mid-northern part of the island.
The Mimpi Resort Menjangan provides an easy access to dive Menjangan island as well as other points nearby the island. Daily excursion to the island is organized with boat taking approximately 30 minutes.
scuba diveThe coral walls around Menjangan are vertical down to 30-60 meters, and then slope outward. The reef surface is particularly rugged : caves, grottoes, crevasses and funnel-like splits break up the coral wall, and the surface is textured with little nooks and crannies. Gorgonians of many kinds reach large size here, and huge barrel sponges are abundant. Soft corals blanket the colorful wall all the way down.
Diving Rates in Menjangan
2 dives in this area will cost US$ 100 per pax includes transport from your hotels in Lovina to the Dive Sites, Lunch box, Soft drinks, Dive Guide, and Equipment.
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