Padang Bay / Mimpang / Tepekong

Description

PADANG BAI HIGHLIGHT

Padang Bai is a small fishing village with a beautiful beach and an underwater wonderland. There are colorful reefs, rich sites for macro photographers, and a small shipwreck. You’ll find beautiful corals and be amazed at the variety of marine life you see.It’s a rich healthy site, vibrant and full of life. Keep an eye out for the buddha statues gazing serenely as you swim by. The most popular site here is Blue Lagoon and there are many others too (including Jepun, the Jetty, Tanjung Sari, the Temple, and the Ferry Channel). You’ll do two enchanting dives, have lunch on the beach and be back to your hotel before dinner. What a great way to spend your time in Bali.

Blue Lagoon

This dive site lies on the front door of the Blue Lagoon resort and is a superb dive site for all levels. It is a sandy bottom starting from 3 metres, sloping down gently to around 40 metres plus. The sand provides great hunting ground for critters such as; sleeping cuttle fish, leaf fish, common seahorses and orangutan crabs hiding in the corals. Look out for the cleaning stations where the shrimps will be happy even to clean you! Enjoy the mini wall covered by a multitude of different coloured feather stars and hidden nudibranch.

Turtle Neck

This small white sand lagoon connected to the mini wall is for those who appreciate a combination of coral reef and muck diving. Healthy reefs full of a wide diversity of fish life set on sandy slopes with a rich variety of critters all in one dive site. You will find juvenile emperor angelfish, yellow boxfish, moray eels and schooling juvenile catfish alongside amazing critters such as; long snout dragonet, flying gurnard, devil scorpionfish, ghost pipefish and seahorses.

Jepun

Jepun takes its name from the Frangipani tree (Jepun in Bahasa) surrounding the little temple on front of the dive site. It is perfect dive site for all level of divers with its gentle slopping bottom from shallows to max 40 metres. Visit the little wreck lying at 25 metres alongside the artificial reef which is already populated with resident frog fish, leaf fish, scorpion and lion fish. Get ready to encounter the submarine and pose for people taking your picture as they see you enjoying the underwater world first hand!

DETAILS TO DIVE Padang Bai?

That price already includes for :

• 2 Dives
• PADI Divemaster as guide
• Lunch, soft drinks and towels
• NITROX