Snorkeling Padang Bai

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The best 3 snorkeling Padang Bai spots

Padang Bai is one of Bali's most popular destinations for scuba diving and at the same time for private snorkeling bali. The diverse tropical marine life makes snorkeling Padang Bai ideal for both beginner and advanced swimmers. As a relatively medium size village for Bali island, the village of Padang Bai is home to a number of beautiful beaches and bays that offer excellent snorkeling opportunities.

Blue Lagoon

Padang Bai Blue Lagoon Snorkeling is the most popular activity in Padang Bai and primarily because it's a beautiful bay that can be visited both from the beach and by boat. The underwater life is beautiful and diverse with turtles easily seen on a daily basis. Snorkeling a little bit out of the bay will enable you to see the beautiful coral reef that Blue Lagoon is offering.

Tanjung Jepun

Locally known as Jepun and placed just on the left side of Blue Lagoon bay, this is the second most popular spot for snorkeling in Padang Bai. Jepun features a beautiful wall that starts from shallow which enables snorkelers to enjoy the diverse marine life.

White Sand Beach

Disregarded by many, White Sand Beach is one of the best spots for snorkeling in Padang Bai as it offers a beautiful beach view and beginner friendly snorkeling that is rich with hard and soft coral as well as turtles and other marine life. White Sand Beach is added to our list as it's a less visited snorkeling spot so during the peak season it's less crowded compared to Blue Lagoon.

Mangrove

Arguably that Mangrove is not located at Nusa Penida, instead at Nusa Lembongan, this snorkeling spot is in the top 3 together with SD Point and Mangrove, and for the right reasons. The coral reef at Mangrove is out of this world and most likely you have never seen a coral reef like this. It is hard to explain in words but once you see it, you will want to come back guaranteed. Compared to the other snorkeling spots, Mangrove sometimes displays strong currents which makes it unsafe but when the water conditions are normal, it is the chosen site for all snorkelers visiting Nusa Penida island.

Padang Bai marine life

What makes Padang Bai so famous for snorkeling is the diverse marine life and this is the best way to describe snorkeling in Padang Bai. Simply it's packed with diversity and it's all that snorkelers imagine when visiting a tropical island like Bali. Turtles, sharks, octopus, sea snakes, camouflage fish, schools of pelagic and the list can go on.

How to get to Padang Bai?

Padang Bai is easily reachable from either the south or the north-east coast of Bali. Generally a short 1 hour car trip, this allows travellers to either visit Padang Bai by themselves or to choose an operator such as Neptune Scuba Diving. Once arriving in Padang Bai harbour, you will easily spot the many spider boats known as Jukung which will be used to visit the east bali snorkeling spots.

Best time to visit for snorkeling Padang Bai

Same as all the other snorkeling spots in Bali, the best time to visit Padang Bai is during the dry season April to October. Snorkeling in Padang Bai suitable all year round but the rainy days of the wet season may sometimes affect the visibility although it's not a general rule that it does.

Bali Snorkeling Tour - Padang Bai

The day starts with the hotel transfer at approximately 7AM, meet and greet at the dive center for preparations, snorkeling gear check and day briefing before finally heading out to snorkeling Padang Bai. The trip to reach the harbour of Padang Bai takes approximately 45-60 minutes by car from Sanur where our dive center is located. Once arriving in Padang Bai, we will be loading the boat, a traditional spider boat called Jukung and off we go for a 5-10 minutes ride to the nearest snorkeling spots.

In each snorkeling spot we will be swimming for approximately 45-60 minutes before returning back to the harbour where we will be enjoying lunch at a nearby local restaurant with delicious local food. Lunch is included in our snorkeling Padang Bai pricing. The return back at the dive center is scheduled for approximately 2PM after 2 spots snorkeling. Snorkeling Padang Bai has a total of 9 main dive sites out of which almost all of them are perfectly suitable for snorkeling.

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