relax diving tour
15 days & 20 dives
Day n°1
Arrive at Bali airport, where you will be met by our team and driven to Sanur, a 25 minutes journey. Arrive at your hotel to rest after your flight. Our team will offer you a 1h massage in the afternoon (postponed to the afternoon of the following day if your flight is in the evening) to help you relax.
Overnight in Sanur (2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°2
Tour of Bali, our driver will pick you up from your hotel at around 8am, and we'll take you for a walk through the rice fields that stretch as far as the eye can see on Jati Luwih, a rice field listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We will then take the road to the Air Terjun Yeh Hoo waterfall or another waterfall depending on the conditions. Lunch on the way if you feel like it. In the afternoon, visit the Batu Karu temple.
Return late afternoon and overnight in Sanur (in a 2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°3
Our driver will pick you up at around 7:30am. The meeting point is at Padang Bay. The journey takes 45 minutes. Once at Padang Bay we will brief you for the 2 dives at Temple and Drop Off or other sites (different species of sharks, such as the black tip shark, nurse shark, and also triggerfish, giant groupers, angelfish, razorfish or trumpetfish and nudibranchs, prawns, crabs, squid, octopus, frogfish and also different species of scorpionfish). Snack between the 2 dives. Lunch at the Puri Rai restaurant after the 2nd dive.
Return to your hotel in the afternoon and overnight in Sanur (in a 2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°4
Our driver will pick you up at around 7:30am. The 2 dives are on the Gilis of Amuk Bay, Gilis Mimpang (shark avenue) and Tepekong (shark canyon) from Padang Bay. These are the islets that can be seen from Candidasa. The site is teeming with small reef fish, white-tip sharks being cleaned regularly and possibly humphead parrotfish, napoleons and turtles. Snack between the 2 dives. Lunch at the Puri Rai restaurant after the 2nd dive.
Return to your hotel in the afternoon and overnight in Sanur (in a 2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°5
Our driver will collect you from your hotel at around 8.00am. We'll go to Sanur beach to go to Nusa Penida by speed boat, to 3 different sites including Manta Point for its Manta Rays, drift dives to see big fish (trevallies, turtles, reef sharks, and with luck mola-mola (depending on weather conditions). Lunch on the boat...
Return to Sanur and overnight in a 2 or 3 star hotel.
Day n°6
Day of sightseeing departing from Sanur. Our driver will pick you up at 8:00am for a walk through the fishing village of Kusumba, and discover an authentic village where they used to harvest salt. Then we'll head for Bali Aga (on the outskirts of Candidasa), a village living according to ancestral rites, a community with strict rules. Lunch in a local restaurant (drinks included). In the afternoon, visit the royal baths of Tirtagganga, built by the King of Karangasem in the mid-20th century. You can wander around the various pools, admire the sculptures or bathe in the sacred water (entrance fee payable locally).
Overnight in Tulamben (2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°7
Our driver will pick you up from your hotel in Tulamben at around 10am, and we'll take you on 2 dives in Tulamben, including the coral garden and the USS Liberty wreck (where you may encounter solitary barracudas posing for photos, pygmy seahorses hidden in the multicoloured gorgonians, groupers, platax, angelfish, humphead parrotfish, schools of jacks, black-tip and white-tip sharks, nudibranchs, etc.). Between the 2 dives, lunch at the restaurant. Return to your hotel in the early afternoon. In the evening, we offer you 1 night dive on the liberty wreck to admire the humphead wrasse.
Night in Tulamben (in a 2 or 3 star hotel).
Day n°8
Our driver will pick you up from your hotel in Tulamben at around 8:30 a.m. and take you to Kubu for 2 dives, one on the wreck and one on the Kubu reef (where you will see barracudas, white tip sharks, sea snakes, turtles, moray eels, reef fish, ghost pipe fish, shrimps and multitudes of nudibranchs....). Lunch at the restaurant and afternoon at leisure.
Overnight in Tulamben (2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°9
Our driver will collect you from your hotel in Tulamben at around 8:30am. 3 dives in total in Tulamben, including one on Seraya Secret for macro divers and the other 2 on the drop offs for the big fish. Lunch at the restaurant.
Return to your hotel. Night in Tulamben (in a 2 or 3 star hotel).
Day n°10
Our driver will pick you up from your hotel in Tulamben around 8:30am. The next dive is at Amed for 2 dives in Jemeluk Bay and the pyramids (you may encounter turtles, grey sharks, black-tip and white-tip sharks, groupers, napoleons and humpback parrots). Restaurant at the Divers Cafe between the 2 dives.
Return to your hotel in the afternoon and spend the night in Tulamben (in a 2 or 3 star hotel).
Day n°11
Our driver will pick you up from your hotel in Tulamben at around 8:30am, then we'll take you to admire the Yeh Mampeh waterfall in northern Bali, which has been preserved from tourism. We'll then take the road to Tegalallang, to admire the cascading rice fields. Lunch on the way and then on to Gunung Kawi Sepatu for a taste of the richness of Indonesian culture. We return to the road to drop you off at your hotel.
Arrive at your hotel in Sanur for a late afternoon rest. Overnight in Sanur (in a 2 or 3 star hotel).
Day n°12
Our driver will pick you up from your hotel at around 8:00 am. We will return to Nusa Penida by speed boat, to 3 different sites including Manta Point for its Manta Rays, and drift dives to see big fish (trevallies, turtles, reef sharks, and with luck mola-mola (depending on weather conditions)...
Return to Sanur and overnight in a 2 or 3 star hotel.
Day n°13
Day of sightseeing, our driver will pick you up at 8.00am. We'll head to the south of Bali to visit Uluwatu, the temple on the cliffs of southern Bali, with a breathtaking view, where you might come across a few thieving macaques. Afterwards, we'll head to Blue Point, where you can walk down to a small cove popular with surfers. For lunch, we'll take you to the Jimbaran market where you can pick up your fish and enjoy it on the spot with the warungs. In the afternoon, visit Tanah-lot, the temple on the water.
Return at the end of the afternoon and overnight in Sanur (in a 2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°14
Our driver will collect you from your hotel at around 8.00 am. Visit to central Bali to see the sacred sites of Tampaksiring with the royal tombs of Gunung Kawi and Tirta Empul, a place of purification for the Balinese. We then head for Kintamani for lunch on the heights of Mount Batur, with a view of the volcano.
Return to the south as you wish and overnight in Sanur (in a 2 or 3-star hotel).
Day n°15
Free day, end of safari. Transfer to the airport or continue your holiday...
two different options
for this 15 days & 20 dives safari
Option
Hotels
38.750.000 Rp
(around. 2265€ / 2460$) *
Option
Hotels
43.800.000 Rp
(around. 2560€ / 2780$) *
* Based on current exchange rate (see XE.COM Currency Converter for information).
2 star hotels
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Sanur: Puri Kelapa Cottage, Puri Sadding Hotel, Sanur House...
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Tulamben: Tulamben Dive Resort, Tulamben Wreck Divers...
3 star hotels
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Sanur: Swastika Bungalow Resort and Spa, Parigata Hotel and Spa or Artotel Sanur
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Tulamben: Tulamben Ocean View, Liberty Dive Resort or Tauch Terminal
Possibility to make this stay with the Backpacker option where the hotels offered are Homestays (homestays without stars).
INCLUDED IN THE DIVING SAFARI:
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Pick up at the airport upon your arrival
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Package of 14 nights in a double room with breakfast
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Transfers hotels
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Transportation by air-conditioned mini-bus and / or boat to diving sites
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Package of 20 dives accompanied by a PADI certified guide
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Visits indicated including entrance fees and guide
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Lunches and soft drinks (water, coffee, tea, soda) on days of diving
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Lunches (without drinks) on the days of visits
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Aluminum air tanks 12L, weight, porter
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PADI Insurance, Oxygen Case
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Taxes
NOT INCLUDED IN THE DIVING SAFARI:
Flight from your home country
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Individual dive equipment : whole (wetsuit, stabs, regulator, fins, mask, snorkel) for 300.000 Rp (about 20€/22$) /day /pers. OR possibility to rent a single item of equipment (stabs, regulator, computer ...) for 80.000 Rp (about 5€/5$) /day /pers.
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Dinner
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Lunches during free days
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Drinks during the days of visits or free day
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Cancellation and assistance insurance
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Personal needs, extras or tips
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Possibility to do additional dives
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Possibility to dive with a tank 12L Nitrox 3€/dive, 15L air 3€/dive, 15L Nitrox 5€/dive
NOTES:
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If you bring your diving equipment, we recommend taking a full 5mm wetsuit (with shorty or undergarment) and booties
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People who do not want to scuba dive can accompany snorkeling divers (fins, mask, snorkel) on all dive sites.
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These safaris above are typical safaris. We also offer personalized & customized diving safaris. Do not hesitate to contact us and tell us your interests so we can adjust to your request.
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Tip is not included , 5€/day/pax