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Travel Blogs from Tulamben, Indonesia

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AOW certified!, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

AOW certified!

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... 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 ...

Meet the USAT Liberty, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Meet the USAT Liberty

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina

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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 ?, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Wanna see Bali ABOVE water ?

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina

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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, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Night diving

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina

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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 !, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

We lost our camera !

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina

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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 ...

WWII Liberty Wreck and Night Diving, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

WWII Liberty Wreck and Night Diving

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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Today Mark came solo to pick me up and together we drove the winding road east passing beautiful rice paddies, a cute resort town called Candidasa and finally arriving to Maharati Resort in Talumben by noon. Mark made sure I finished my exams before we ...

Shipwreck Diving and Partying in Kuta, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Shipwreck Diving and Partying in Kuta

A travel blog entry by ruairioc

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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 ...

USS Liberty, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

USS Liberty

A travel blog entry by lasse-kaya

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... vi booket en bil og sjåfør for dagen, så vi tok derfor turen nordover på øya mot en liten landsby som heter Tulamben. Hensikten med å besøket i Tulamben var at vi skulle dykke ned til et amerikansk skip (USS Liberty) som ble sunket av ...

Tulamben Day 125 (22nd Sept), Data, Indonesia travel blog

Tulamben Day 125 (22nd Sept)

A travel blog entry by leehorscraft

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... 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 ...

Die Besteigung des Gunung Agung,  Gunung Agung, Indonesia travel blog

Die Besteigung des Gunung Agung

A travel blog entry by j.l.experience

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Logbuch des Captain Wir schreiben den 1. September im Jahre 2011 Wir befinden uns momentan im Westen der Insel Bali.Es liegen äußerst anstrengende Tage hinter der Mannschaft.Unsere Expedition führte uns in die Berge, ein Vulkanmassiv das wir bezwingen ...

Bali and Lombok behind, the big Java left, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Bali and Lombok behind, the big Java left

A travel blog entry by dalemountford

... 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 ...

Its a Century!!!, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Its a Century!!!

A travel blog entry by sianinbali

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... highlights were the ornate ghost pipe fish and my first octopus!! The diving was easy and from the shore. We then transferred early to Tulamben for the next phase of our adventure - and boy did the adventure begin! First dive was on a wreck, it was great ...

The Liberty Wreck, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

The Liberty Wreck

A travel blog entry by karen.gironr

... holiday, we had to change our plans of going straight to the Gilis in Lombok. We made it to Tulamben thanks to Shaula's thorough reading of the Indonesia Lonely Planet. We have come to really detest Lonely Planet and I find that although really useful at ...

Tulamben Day 126 (23rd Sept), Data, Indonesia travel blog

Tulamben Day 126 (23rd Sept)

A travel blog entry by leehorscraft

... 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 ...

USAT Liberty - Wreck Dive, Tulamben & Amed, Indonesia travel blog

USAT Liberty - Wreck Dive

A travel blog entry by trent

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Continuing on our drive, we headed east and then south, stopping at the village of Tulamben, home of Bali's best wreck dive, the U.S.A.T (U.S. Army Transport) Liberty.  The Liberty was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942 and the wreck still ...

tulamben, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

tulamben

A travel blog entry by lemmyf

... 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 ...

Diving a WW2 wreck, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Diving a WW2 wreck

A travel blog entry by indoadventure

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Thursday we headed north towards Tulamben, an even smaller village on the coast. On the way it started raining heavily, so we took shelter at a small restaurant in Amed and had lunch - and were glad we had bought rain ponchos in Sulawesi! It was still ...

Chillin' at the Tualamben beach, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Chillin' at the Tualamben beach

A travel blog entry by andreasjahn

... 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 ...

A tiny town based on diving, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

A tiny town based on diving

A travel blog entry by benbackpacker

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... we arrived we realized the nearest ATM was 40 minutes away by car, so we had to use the money we brought with us. Tulamben has a black sand beach, due to the volcano nearby. Black lava solidified and got ground down to the point that there is some black ...

diving ship wrecks, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

diving ship wrecks

A travel blog entry by j.mccrary

... 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 ...

Tulamben, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Tulamben

A travel blog entry by stubo

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 ...

Plongee sur le Liberty, Tulamben, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Plongee sur le Liberty, Tulamben

A travel blog entry by emeric.bensaci

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... a un dive master, un chauffeur et un instructeur. L'instructeur est pour Benny qui passe son Open Water. Arrivons vers 11h30 a Tulamben. Il y a plein de monde, en fait c'est la seule attraction ici et le village s'est construit autour de l'attraction ...

Diving Town, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Diving Town

A travel blog entry by daniebackpacker

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... , durften wir sogar einmal durch eine ziemlich enge Stelle hindurch tauchen. Das war vielleicht aufregend! Leider gab es in Tulamben keine Bankautomaten und deshalb konnten wir uns nur einen Tauchgang leisten, aber das war auch voellig in Ordnung, weil ...

Diving in Tulamben, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Diving in Tulamben

A travel blog entry by willndebs

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... 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 ...

USAT Freedom, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

USAT Freedom

A travel blog entry by sywert

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

Wreck dive, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Wreck dive

A travel blog entry by eharpham

Camera broke yesterday so i might upload some pictures from google pics or something of this place. Had it recommended by someone in Borneo and its a wreck that is only 8m - 30m below the surface so katie could dive it. 2 and a half hours drive from our ...

Diving Tulamben and Selang, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

Diving Tulamben and Selang

A travel blog entry by gregoryyance

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... . "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 ...

8 Days of Scuba, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

8 Days of Scuba

A travel blog entry by brianburkhardt

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... the experience of 20 dives - and i saved over $1000 by doing the courses here, rather than Australia.  The highlight of Tulamben is the sunken WWII ship the USS Liberty, which is now covered in coral and tropical fish.  By far my favorite dive ...

No Zombies Here. Please Move On., Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

No Zombies Here. Please Move On.

A travel blog entry by kalischild

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... covered with guns). One day, as an American transport ship was chugging innocently along near the tiny fishing village of Tulamben, an overly enthusiastic Japanese submarine decided to say 'hello' by placing a torpedo (somewhat awkwardly) inside the U.S. ...

My favourite nightmare... nightdiving!!, Tulamben, Indonesia travel blog

My favourite nightmare... nightdiving!!

A travel blog entry by outthere

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... the damned obvious... so I was reliant upon a flashlight... (again, sorry!).  The location was HMS Liberty (a shipwreck) in Tulamben (North Bali) and there were these 1m emerald green parrot fish... which only come out at night... and they float so ...

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