Tulamben Resorts - Reviews and Rates

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 spot for the Balinese and was a really peaceful place. We did a number of dives around the area incl...

We awoke refreshed after our power nap and hit the road again. This time we had a long journey ahead of us to our destination: Tulamben. Tulamben is known as another excellent diving site, but it is well known because it is the site of a ship wreck from WWII. The USS Liberty was an American cargo ship that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. ...

We woke up early ready to be collected by Ketut at 7.30 and driven to Tulamben, which is on the north coast of Bali. It took about 2 1/2 hours to get there but the scenery on the way was amazing. We passed hundreds of rice paddy fields then as we neared the end of our journey we passed Mount Agung, Bali's largest volcano and it's smaller cousin,...

Advanced Open Water Diver licensing was something that we'd been looking forward to for a long time. Like, since we got our Open Water Diver license. After we left Ko Phi Phi we ran into a couple hangups and had no idea if we would be able to finish our certification. Namely, Adventure Dives are more expensive than Fun Dives and those aren't ter...

we spend a couple more nights at Kuta since we got there late in the evening and we wanted to spend the next day with our friend until the plane was leaving. From there we took the Parama bus, good service and fair price, till Ubud, the cultural center of Bali, lots of carvers, painters, yoga teachers etc., to me personally felt exactly like Kut...

I'm currently exhausted and think I've probably caught a cold from spending 2 days in the water without a wetsuit and holding my 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 gre...