Tulamben, Indonesia Travel Blogs

Meet the USAT Liberty
May 8, 2008 (51 photos)

06/05:  in the morning, our hotel phone does not work. We have to use our mobile to call a mobile in Indonesia via Belgium: ouch! But: pick up at noon. We meet Wayan and ... Tony from Perth, would you believe????   Those Australian Tonys start ...

Wanna see Bali ABOVE water ?
May 10, 2008 (24 photos)

When we walk outside, at 08h50, a nice chauffeured 4X4 is waiting for us. We have no idea where we are going, trusting the people of the hotel.   After half an hour of driving, we stop in at the water palace or Tirta Gangga, meaning Holy Water of ...

Night diving
May 11, 2008 (21 photos)

Soryn, a German diving master, is joining us for the day, so we need 2 'boats'.   The volcano does not have a hat of clouds today: the weather is perfect!   We sail to a shore, 30 minutes away, so we will do our surface interval there. It ...

We lost our camera !
May 9, 2008 (15 photos)

For boat dives, the start is the latest 8h. When we are ready to leave, Dr T does not find the camera! We look everywhere: no camera. We do not remember when we last used it. Yesterday at noon? Evening? Not after diving? I go to warn Wayan and Arie that ...

AOW certified!
May 26, 2008

... surface interval is completed by travelling between dive sites, but with the shore dives we were doing and the tiny distance to travel (Tulamben is not much of a town - pretty much just for divers), lunch is the perfect way to take up a surface interval.& ...

Shipwreck Diving and Partying in Kuta
Jul 7, 2008 (35 photos)

We hired a jeep for the next few days and made our way to Tumbalen; the drive was beautiful so many terraced rice fields!! I was so engrossed in surroundings that I didn't see a car coming... ooh close one!! The lake palace is a favourite holiday ...

diving ship wrecks
Jun 17, 2008

... she was fine. Diving a wreck without even having a basic cert is something that could only happen in a third world country like Indonesia where they are more interested in dollars than protocol. Our second dive of the day we saw a massive sea turtle and a ...

Tulamben Day 125 (22nd Sept)
Sep 22, 2009 (10 photos)

... was the change in the weather, the whole of the south is feeling the effects of the rainy season, whereas because Tulamben is located behind Gunung Agung the rainclouds cannot get to Tulamben, meaning within 30 minutes you can go from miserable drizzle to ...

Bali and Lombok behind, the big Java left
Apr 14, 2006

... in Belize months before who had come out to travel with me. Rented a motorbike and after about an hour, decided the roads in Indonesia (yep, the whole country) were in fact the worst possible place in the world to ride. I got caught by the police doing an ...

Tulamben Day 126 (23rd Sept)
Sep 23, 2009

... for about another hour and a half and then walked around on the beach. In the evening again I got up to very little, as in Tulamben there is very little here apart from the snorkelling. Fortunately I found a place to eat where they also had a tv with DVD ...

tulamben
Feb 17, 2009

... der lemmy tauchen gehen und dann schauen wir einmal wies weitergeht die ersten tauchgaenge waren bei einem grossen schiffswrack in tulamben. ca. eine stunde autofahrt von der tauchschule aus. juliane ist mitgefahren und wir haben so ein bissl einen ...

Chillin' at the Tualamben beach
Jul 29, 2009

... side restaurant. Ahmed is a little fishing village and we onley stopped there for a few minutes to continue our ride to Tulamben. Tualamben is known for snorkeling and shore diving. The USS Liberty ship wreck sunk close to the shore as it was torpedoed by ...

Tulamben
May 7, 2009

Tulamben was only a backtrack drive of about 10km. We picked up fuel on the way as I covered the distance in no time. It was nice driving without our bags on (all-be-it small bags). We got to the dive centre and within 15 mins I was off diving with an ...

Diving in Tulamben
May 26, 2008 (10 photos)

... reach the summit for sunrise. We didn't really have time to fit it in as well as doing our dive course. We arrived at Tulamben and were taken to the Paradise Palm Beach Bungalows. After settling into our new room we headed to the beach to meet Ketut for ...

USAT Freedom
Oct 14, 2009

Nice wreckdiving right of the beach! Great experience, with lots of beautiful coral and colourful marine life.

Diving Tulamben and Selang
Jul 2, 2007 (5 photos)

... "The drivers in Bali are a little crazy," he kept telling us. We left Ubud during a torrential rainstorm and arrived in Tulamben with the same. After getting a quick orientation from the staff at Deep Blue Divers, we ate some dinner and crashed early. ...

Back in Bali
May 19, 2008

... divemaster whom was very good. A best option would have been to go to Candidasa a nice little town not too far away and go to Tulamben just to dive, neither of the towns has a real beach, one is rolling stone and on Candidasa I don't think there is a real ...

Diving in USS LIBERTY ...
Feb 15, 2009

Diving in USS LIBERTY ...

Tulamben, Bali
Feb 2, 2008

diving the Liberty wreck!

Diving the US Liberty
Sep 30, 2007 (12 photos)

... breath for large chunks of that time, but it was worth it. There is a stretch of coast along the East of Bali near Tulamben where a US world war ship beached, then sunk after being torpedoed by the Japanese. It's a great location as it's accessible from ...

Liberation!
Aug 27, 2007

Today we took a day trip from Ubud out two hours to the east side of Bali to a little place called Tulamben. Basically, the whole town is build up around diving and all the diving is built up around the USS Liberty wreck dive. When Jesse was here 10 ...