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Best Diving & Snorkeling Spots in Nusa Penida, Lembongan, & Padang Bai

Diving in Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Padang Bai is an unforgettable experience in Bali’s underwater paradise.Nusa Penida offers superb visibility and impressive coral reefs, while Nusa Lembongan captivates with its diverse marine life.

Padang Bai, with dive sites such as the Blue Lagoon, offers beautiful coral views and a diversity of marine life. Healthy coral reefs, colorful fish and challenging ocean currents create a stunning diving adventure. Each location provides unforgettable underwater natural beauty for divers looking for an extraordinary experience in Bali’s waters.

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Nusa Penida & Lembongan

CRYSTAL BAY

Best Time to Dive:
Crystal Bay dive site on the west side of Nusa Penida. June to October is the best season to see Mola (Ocean Sunfish).

What to See:
Crystal is the special site for Mola (Ocean Sunfish) sightings. The water is clear most of the time, that’s why it’s called Crystal Bay. The topography for this site is combination steep slope and drop off. 2 Ocean Sunfish cleaning stations is in this site. Other marine life you see here is reef sharks, turtles, abundance of fusilier schooling, barracudas, until macro/muck stuff.

Crystal Bay is suitable for experienced diver Advanced Open Water with 25+ dives.

Suitable for:
Snorkelling, Open Water to Advanced Open Water

TOYA PAKEH

Best Time to Dive
All year round, located at the west part of Nusa Penida.

What to See:
Steep slopes combine with drop, you can see healthy corals from hard to soft corals. Many fish sometimes Mola Sunfish hanging around in this site. Turtle most common to see and groupers, snappers, stingrays, and other. Typical of the current is long shore current.

Suitable for:
Snorkelling, Open Water to Advanced Open Water

MANGROVE

All year round, north part of Lembongan Island. Gentle slope from 5 to 18 meters. Surrounded by healthy corals, various fish. Drift dive, suitable for Open water to Advanced Open Water.

Suitable for:
Snorkelling, Open Water to Advanced Open Water

LEMBONGAN BAY

All year round, suitable for try scuba or Discover Scuba Diving. Flat sandy bottom full of healthy corals and many fish.

MANTA POINT

Best Time to Dive: All Year Round
Manta Point dive site on the southwest side of Nusa Penida. The manta cleaning stations that are located here.

What to See:
The dive site is a gently sloping reef with wall that has 2 cleaning stations where the mantas queue up to use the services of the cleaner bannerfish and butterflyfish living there. Divers can hover slightly away and below the cleaning station (8-10 meter deep) watching as the mantas come again and again and again! Reef Manta Rays are the main draw to this dive site is also a lot of fishy action going on here. Sometimes you can see other fish include nurse sharks, white tip/black tip reef sharks, bamboo sharks, wobbegong sharks, turtles and Also Mola (Ocean Sunfish) if it’s on their season. Another unique about the manta point is Black Manta (Melanistic Manta) is hanging around here.

Suitable for:
Snorkelling, Open Water to Advanced Open Water

PED & SD POINT

Best Time to Dive
All year round. Located in Northwest of the island. It’s best site to do drifting/drift dive. SD is one the most beautiful and healthy corals in the Nusa Penida. Most animals hanging around in these sites are turtles, dogtooth tuna, sharks, giant barracuda, butterflyfish schooling.

Suitable for:
Snorkelling, Open Water to Advanced Open Water

BLUE CORNER

All year round, north part of the Lembongan.

What to see:
Bottom topography is drop off combined with steep slope. Mola (Ocean Sunfish) during the season, Marble Rays, Bull rays, Eagle Rays, Reef Sharks, Turtles, and other unexpected big marine animals.

Suitable for:
Advanced Open Water with 25+ dives

Padang Bai & Candidasa

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Bias Tugel

Steep Slope with nice corals, perfect for Macro/Muck dive, also good for deep adventure dive. 5 minutes from the shore by wooden boat (Jukung).

Jepun Wreck

Gently slope with sandy bottom filled with Barracuda schooling, various type of reef fish, and turtles. This site also got a small shipwreck, good if you’re interested for wreck adventure diving.

Gili Tepekong

It takes 20-25minutes boat ride from shore. Steep Slope combined with wall, and there’s small cave in this site. Reef sharks hanging around on the cleaning station. Suitable for Advanced Open Water with 25+ dives.

Blue Lagoon

It’s a lagoon with turquoise water. This gently slope combined with drop off is suitable for snorkeling and all entry level divers. We easily spot nice corals, reef fish and turtles, and macro stuff in this site.

Jetty Point

If you are Muck Dive fanatics Jetty point need to be in your list. From nudibranch, frogfish, mantis shrimp, etc, you can find them here.

Gili Biaha

It takes 25 minutes boat ride, Biaha is famous with sleeping shark inside the caves. Bottom topography in Biaha is small island with drop off. Suitable for Advanced Open Water with 25+ dives.

Turtle Neck

This drop off with gently slope site is just next to blue lagoon site. Rhinopias, octopus, cuttlefish, pegasus/seamoth, macro stuff sometimes grey reef shark you can find it here. Turtle neck is suitable for Open Water until Advanced Open Water.

Gili Mimpang

to go here you need to take 20-ish minutes boat ride. Steep slope combined with drop off, sometimes Mola Ocean Sunfish spot in this site during it’s season, shark is the highlight of this site. Suitable for Advanced Open Water with 25+ dives.

Testimonials of Scubago happy divers

Tulamben Scuba Dive & Snorkeling

5.0

Based on 278 reviews

04:33 13 Mar 24

I dived with them in June 2022 with my friends, I highly recommend them, hugs from Brazil

13:34 12 Mar 24

The crew was great and we had an awesome time diving and hanging out with them. I strongly recommend visiting Tulamben Scuba!

Agung Dwilyantari

00:00 03 Mar 24

Made Arnawa (Imadarn)

15:36 20 Feb 24

Free dive destination

11:11 19 Feb 24

THE BEST DIVE CENTER IN TULAMBEN.i took DSD on August 2023 and felt satisfied then i took open water certification here on february 2023.The hospitality, the team are amazing. They have best price with best package compared to other dive center.Special thanks for Mas Nicholas Ryu and Bli Jeksen as instructor! At tulamben_scuba, making me feel like i have new family :)Very recommended! Must try and you will never regret it.

09:26 17 Feb 24

The adventure is great! Super recommended diving place 😍😍Got my open water certification here, my instructor was Jusak and he taught us clearly and nicely! 😝We stayed for 2 nights, the crew are super helpful, the food is amazing and the gelatos is super good.Our dive always ended up with food 🥰They even picked us up from airport and took us to our next place~2 days went by too fast~

08:29 13 Feb 24

My experience with Tulamben Scuba Dive & Snorkeling team was fantastic. The service was excellent, and the staff was incredibly friendly. Their expertise in diving made me feel safe and well-guided throughout the adventure. I highly recommend their services to anyone seeking a great underwater experience with a team that truly cares.

Izzaldin Soerono

05:43 28 Dec 23

I took my Advanced Open Water course here and had the most amazing time. I stayed at their accommodation as well; the room was spacious, clean, and air-conditioned. The staff were very kind and warm to the point I was sad to leave them after my course ended. A huge shout-out to Billy and Jusak who supervised my course and took amazing photos underwater!

09:48 14 Dec 23

Diving with tulamben scuba was made even more memorable by the kind coach who accompanied me, capturing the experience brilliantly. Alongside the fantastic underwater encounters, the dive center's delectable yet affordable cuisine added a flavorful touch to the adventure. The friendly instructors, paired with their high-tech equipment, ensured not only a safe dive but also a welcoming and enjoyable environment for exploring the stunning underwater world of Tulamben.

13:22 22 Sep 23

I have no complaints when diving with them! Great service, although their diving price is very cheap, lunch is included, the equipment is very new, the guide is very enthusiastic! Especially when going to far sites for muck, they don't charge extra! Even diving in the early morning! Something that most other places will charge extra! I went diving with Tonna! he helped me find so many cute little creatures! Thank you so much for the first time I did 4 dives a day and didn't feel tired at all!

04:44 26 Feb 23

I did my discover scuba dive here last month and decided to take my Open Water certification here, took the full package and really satisfied with the team and services. Highly recommend this place for you to dive.

17:29 30 Jan 23

Big recommendation!!!Mr. Yogi was a very patient and skilled diving trainer. Had a great time there doing the Open Water Diver. and Price is also very affordable. Will definitely come back for more courses.

17:19 30 Jan 23

Fun dive with my friends who did discover scuba diving All went well. Thank you to Mr Yogy and team. He explain what beginners should know, and the risk if we didn’t follow the procedures. and thank you so much for tulamben scuba team

03:56 10 Jan 23

I did one fun dive session with Tulamben Scuba nearing the end of last year and had an amazing time. Our instructor was helpful and accommodating especially since we had no prior experience with scuba diving. I would definitely recommend for first timer looking for an environment that doesn’t make diving feel intimidating.

06:20 22 Oct 22

An exceptional diving experience! I can't recommend highly enough.We went on two dives for 700k per person, this included lunch, towels, guide, porter and all equipment! Simple! The liberty wreck was incredible and so was the coral garden. So many clown fish!The equipment at Tulamben Scuba is all brand new and very well maintained. The facilities are fantastic. Even the lunch was good and effort was taken to cater to our dietary requirements.Extra thanks to the team for bringing an underwater camera and sending us all the shots!