Bali Travel Guide: Pretty Azure water at Lembongan Island!

If you want to spice up your Bali trip, you can arrange for a day trip to Lembongan Island. Lembongan Island has a relaxing island vibe for a staycation for 1 or 2 nights to better explore Lembongan Island. The ultra-clear bluish water’s calling you. What makes it better?

It’s just 30 mins away to paradise from Bali!

Things to do at Lembongan island

How to go to Lembongan Island?

Take a speedboat, Scoot Cruise from Sanur to Lembongan. Scoot cruise has the most reasonable price, inclusive of 2-way hotel transfer at an affordable price to Lembongan. While planning for Bali, it’s better to do proper research about the prices before booking anything. It’s way better than being sorry.

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Alternatively, if you would to experience many island hopping in a day, you can book KLOOK 3 Island Day Cruise to visit Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan! These 3 islands are totally worth the visit & less touristy~ I would want to visit Nusa Penida on my next Bali trip. Several untouched nature which would capture your heart such as Kelingking Beach!

Travelereve Tips: Things to Note

There is no harbour at Lembongan Island so be prepared to wade into the water with your bare feet.

Wading through the cold water can be difficult as you don’t want your clothes to get wet and there were shells as you step on the sand. It is painful & you are afraid that you might the shells might cut your legs. So be careful!

As we went to Lembongan Island for a day trip, our snorkelling and surfing shop is located at the shore.

What to do in Lembongan?

As we plan to go Lembongan for a day trip so we took the earliest speedboat at 9.30am from Sanur to Lembongan for water sports. We were super excited about water sports as I can’t wait to swim in their crystal clear water!

We had pre-booked our snorkelling and surfing activities before we came to Bali. It’s highly recommended for you to do good research on the various water sports website to get an affordable price!

We asked our tour guide to liaise with our snorkelling and surfing vendor as we wanted to try out both sports on the same day. After researching, there are not many vendors catering such customised services.

I would recommend you to stay a few nights at Lembongan Island so you can do surfing at much more beautiful beach such as Dream Beach & Mushroom bay beach. Lembongan island is worth more than a day trip!

Snorkelling activities in Lembongan Island

Our snorkelling vendor was situated just right in front when we alight from the speedboat. Basically, it’s a shop near the shore that provides both snorkelling and surfing activities.

We got changed to our snorkelling gears, took a snorkelling mask and hop on to a van to drive us to our snorkelling destination.

Upon reaching the shore of our snorkelling destination, we took another speedboat to the “middle” of the sea. It was supposed to be in the middle of the sea. Apparently, the personnel didn’t check properly the depth of our snorkelling area. They have dropped us at an area that is shallow and so close to the coral. With the never-ending waves, it’s quite difficult to swim and an accidental kick cause my leg to hit the coral reefs. I could feel immediate pain after hitting the coral reefs. Ouch!

Therefore, it’s very important to check for the depth properly and immediately alert the personnel if the depth is too shallow.

During that few minutes in the water, the sea is indeed very clear, there were some fishes but nothing amazing.

We decided to head back to the shore due to my incident and the personnel insisted that we are the one who swam to the shallow end when they are the one who put us on the wrong spot. Bad experience much!

They offered simple first aid for my wound and we had lunch and continued surfing.

Surfing in Lembongan Island

We were given some basic surfing knowledge and training before we try real surfing.

Beginners for learning surfing often use longboard. They are indeed heavy and getting the right posture was never easy.

After the training, we took the speedboat out to the middle of the sea to try surfing. It was quite a scary experience to try surfing in the middle of the sea as a first-timer. I would not recommend to surf in the middle of the sea where the boats will pass by. It just feels kind of dangerous. Please clarify with the area you will be surfing before booking.

Getting onto the surfing board is one of the toughest things.

Balance is the key.

We have to swim out to the surfing area where the waves are big enough for us to try standing up.

Trying to swim to the surfing area is really tiring as you have to paddle through the waves and you have to control your direction too.

I couldn’t remember how long we have been out surfing. Surfing is definitely one of the sports that drain your energy, yet satisfied!

Can’t wait to try and master surfing again next time~ Overall, It’s a good experience but I’m sure there are definitely better choices for the water sports provider.

The Deck Cafe & Bar at Lembongan

The Deck cafe & bar is a cafe near the shore within walkable distance. A cafe with a good spot where you can enjoy your cup of coffee with a stunning overview of Lembongan island and the clear blue water.

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