Menjangan Island located at North West Coast Bali, the island is very quite but very good for diving & snorkeling. Trekking at Bali Barat park also good activities when you stay there.
There are a few dive sites to choose from at Menjangan with good conditions and excellent visibility. It’s also an interesting site for snorkeling. Menjangan also has a wreck , known as the ‘Anker’ because of its heavily encrusted anchor at the top of the reef. Fixed moorings have been built to prevent damag, and the island is reached by a 30 minutes boat ride from Labuan Lalang.
Menjangan’ s white sandy beaches make a nice location to break for lunch. Underwater, the drop-off along the south shore and eastern tip, facing the Bali Sea, are home to lots of colourful small fish and vertebrates, lacy sea fans and a variety of sponges. The sandy, gradual slopes of Menjangan’ s north coast is a final resting place for Bali’ s oldest dive able shipwreck, the Anker Wreck. Menjangan Islands north coast has also some beautiful snorkeling sites.
Even large pelagics are sometimes seen at Menjangan. Occasionally sightings of Whales, Whale sharks and Manta rays have been reported. Drift diving is usual, but currents are quite mild and all levels of divers can enjoy this area.
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Here a tips and a few place to stay when you have plan to menjangan, i suggest you stay at Pemuteran at Taman Selini Bungalow beach front. If you prefer relax place stay 2 night is more recommended. Its take approximately 3.5 hour from Bali International Airport, Another option is to stay in the Park itself at Waka Shorea. You can only get there by boat. The downside being once youa re there, well, you are there. The upside is that the trip to the island is very short. Food is not bad. They have 2 villas as well. Get one of those if you can — much better experience than their regular rooms. Gawana Novus is also good choice, then there is Mimpi, (But for that price, I prefer Gawana).
if you want to do a trek in the National Park, it also starts in the morning - it’s not as hot. So you can actually arrive there, go snorkelling the next day, then chill out when you return, or check out Permuteran - it’s tiny. You can go and see the turtle sanctuary, pearl farm, or if you are game enough, rent a motorbike and explore the area yourself.
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