Indonesia - Bali - Tulamben & Diving

After Mount Batur, we drove up to Tejakula and stop at Les. The road was small and there were no petrol station. If you are run out of petrol, you have to stop in one of the shop along the way which sell ‘Premium’ and the price will be slightly expensive than the petrol station. We stop at Les and try to find hotel and diving place. But later we found that the price was too expensive for either the dive (which cost Euro 35 for one dive) or the hotel (which cost Euro 60 / night). We droved again further to Tulamben.

Tulamben we managed to find reasonably nice lodging named Aries bungalow price of Rp. 40,000 per night / address, including breakfast; instead of checking out at 12pm, you can keep the room in the afternoon for additional Rp. 10,000. Our room served very nice view of ‘Gunung Agung’. We can see the mountain clearly in the morning and saw the cloud slowing growing the tip of the mountain and swallowing it.

The diving cost USD 25 per one dive and USD 30 for two dives including the guide and complete equipment. Igor did 2 dives (1 hour each dive). (address + diving spots ;igor to write details).

Tulamben sea water was superb clean and clear. No sandy beaches instead the beach was all covered with nice dark rocks. In the afternoon, we tried to do the snorkeling and managed to saw couple of beautiful yellow and black strips fishes but later the sun was out and the weather become moody thus we have to stop.

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