Amed attractions has a beautiful coast with sunrise, underwater life also offers a great place to practice diving or diving. There is a Lake on the edge of a flat beach is good for exercise, as well as the rock which can be reached by swimming for 5 minutes. Here is great for snorkeling and diving, this area is also growing because of its beauty. Access to the site from the airport approximately 2.5 hours away by car.

Amed beach is located at the eastern end of the island of Bali, in the village of Amed, Abang, Karangasem Regency, Bali. A lot of important tourism facilities such as restaurant, hotel and bungalows here. Public life here in general are fishermen. The rural atmosphere is thick, pristine traditions have not affected the foreign culture, hospitality is still thick, beautiful Sunrise/sunrise in the morning, while enjoying breakfast, will add to the exotic atmosphere during the holidays/tours in Bali.

English: Amed Beach:: English version

Brine Rice Terrace View: journey to Amed

With a black sandy beach, crystal clear water conditions, diverse marine life, coral reefs, water preserved maintained constant warmth is not changeable, so the snorkeling and diving here is very sought after by tourists domestic and foreign tourists. If you continue walking down the sights of the coast of Amed you will meet with the village of Jemeluk and found small pieces and the most beautiful coral garden you'll ever see. 

Understand

Amed refers to a long stretch of coast running from the village of Cucik about 14 km eastwards incorporating the seven villages of Amed, Jemeluk, Bunutan, Lipah, Selang, Banyuning and Aas. The pace of life here is slow and the coastal scenery quite stunning making Amed the perfect place for a relaxed holiday in Bali.
Amed is the most recent tourist development area in Bali. It was only in 2000 that tarmac was laid on the roads. Telephone lines were installed in 2003 and it took until 2007 for a bridge to be built over a section of the main road that regularly washed away during the rainy season.
This is the most commonly used base for visitors wishing to dive the USS Liberty wreck at Tulamben and that area is also covered by this article. There are other good dive sites close at hand and a thriving dive industry has developed all the way along the coast here.
Amed's inhabitants live from fishing, salt-making and tourism. The lack of tourism-based revenue, its remote nature and the generally harsh environment for farming, meant that this area was very much one of the poorer areas in Bali. Amongst others, the East Bali Poverty Project [1] drew attention to the plight of the local villagers in this area and that, together with recent tourist development, has gone a long way to improving general standards of living, health and education.

Amed lies on the north-eastern tip of Bali, a little more than a two hours drive from the Ngurah Rai International Airport. A taxi service to Amed is available at the airport for about Rp 400,000.
Amed is accessed by turning east at the village of Culik which lies on the main east coast road from Karangasem to Singaraja.
Shuttle buses regularly serve the destination from Candidasa and Lovina and now that the road has been greatly improved, they take you all the way into Amed (previously all buses stopped at Culik and motorbikes ferried visitors into Amed). Perama [2] operates optional shuttle buses from Padang Bai or Candidasa to Tirtagangga, Amed and Tulamben (Rp 125,000, min. 2 people). Depart : 9.30AM & 2PM - Return : 11AM. There is no Perama office in Amed.
The easiest way into Amed though is to hire your own transport with a driver. Be aware that the Amed district is stretched out over more than 10 km. Transport by local drivers is widely available in Amed. Transport to Padang Bai should not cost more than Rp 150,000.
If you are coming from the islands to the east, Amed Sea Express [3] offers pick-up in Lombok, Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air with twice daily service to Amed arriving at 9:15AM & 1:15PM.

Get around

Public transport in Amed is rare. There are bemos (mini buses) from Culik as far as Aas (that pass through Amed) but mainly in the morning. Later in the day it is almost impossible to find public transport. The easiest way to get around is to hire a car and driver. Motorcycles are widely available for rent and you should expect to pay Rp 50,000-80,000/day.

See

Amed is famous for its beaches, lined with traditional outrigger fishing boats. There is quite coarse black volcanic sand at Amed village beach. As you move further east (and away from Mount Agung), the beaches have softer sand and become more of a mid grey-brown in colour. The prettiest bays are probably those at Jemeluk and Lipah but the whole stretch of coastline is very attractive.
Salt production is a declining but still important industry in this area. As you drive along the main coast road through the villages you will see large open drying pans crusted with salt crystals. Those little boxes of gourmet Bali salt crystals you see in delicatessens and speciality food stores all over the world may have started their long journey from these very pans.
There is vibrant marine life close offshore in clear seas.

• Mini Zoo, Selang (at the Selang Resort), ☎ +62 85 237506739 (info@selangreesort.com), [4]. 7AM-9PM. Many kinds of birds (cockatoo, lory, hornbill), reptiles (python, tortoise, skink) and mammals (slow lori, palm civet, porcupine). Rp 20,000. 

• Shell Museum, Bunutan (at the Aiona Garden of Health). An odd little place and a very charming one to boot. Exactly as it says, shells. Rp 20,000.  

Do

Most people come to Amed as a getaway, including expats from other parts of the island. It is a favourite honeymoon destination for tourists and is very popular with divers and snorkelers. Day trips to local places of interest such as the water palace at Tirta Gangga and Bali's most sacred temple, Besakih, can easily be arranged. Mount Agung with lots of trekking options just 30-40 minutes from Amed.
Traditional outrigger boats are available for fishing charters from the main beaches in the Amed area. This normally involves early morning trolling for mackeral.
Have a traditional massage on the beach. Women from the local villages are always on hand for an invigorating massage, speciality so at Lipah Beach.
Enjoy nature and go with the wind on a traditional sailing boat for diving, fishing, exploration, dolphin watching, snorkelling or just swimming and relaxing.
You can get your visa extended here for Rp 500,000, which takes a week. That's generally cheaper than doing so in south Bali. Dive Concepts can tell you where to go for that and probably other dive centres too.

• Condor Sailing, (located at Hotel Uyah Amed), ☎ +62 363 23462, (info@ameddivecenter.com).

Freediving

Amed and Tulamben are fast becoming recognised as the best place in Bali to learn freediving (apnea or breath-hold diving). 2 Freediving schools are located in Amed (Apneaista) and Tulamben (Apnea Bali) plus several other instructors use those locations for providing courses.
Jemeluk bay in Amed is most favoured, due to it's deep coral walls and lack of strong currents. Based there is the Apneista Freediving training and Yoga space. It is Bali's first freediving school and they have a beautiful training space and Yoga sala right on Jemeluk beach. The training is open to all and ranges from complete beginners, the basic level freediver to more advanced coaching for those who have received freediving training elsewhere. The training is influenced and supplemented with various aspects of Yoga education. For more see Apneista freedive training and yoga education
In Tulamben, in the close vicinity of Liberty wreck, Apnea Bali Freediving Education is located. Courses for all levels are provided in Apnea Total and SSI systems. Training and coaching sessions are also provided for advanced freedivers. Those who can afford to stay a little bit longer special Master program has been developed. In 4-5 weeks intensive intern-ship-like training people are reaching apex of their freediving capabilities. Those who are in area for short time can try freediving in "Dicover Freediving" 1-day course. Guys from Apnea Bali made the wreck their kingdom and there is a big chance that everyday you will find them freediving there. For more see Apnea Bali Freediving Education

Yoga

Viktoria, [5] offers yoga lessons in Amed. She studied and started to practise in Nashik, India and has been teaching classic Hatha Yoga since 2006. Each lesson is 90 min.
Apneista Freediving and Yoga school has recently opened a beachside yoga sala and training space in Jemaluk bay, most days there is a 90 minutes Asana class in the evenings and often in the mornings. They also offer workshops in other aspects of Yoga such as Pranayama and Meditation. See [6] for more details.

Snorkelling

Amed has some good snorkelling within metres of the shore. A reef follows the majority of the coastline and is quite close in. Due to the limited number of visitors to the area and a growing conservation awareness among the locals, the sea life is healthy and abundant. There is a small wooden wreck in only 1.5 m of water off Lipah Beach, however this is not the World War II "Japanese Wreck". David Pickels' book on diving in Bali described this dive site for the first time back in 1999 as the Lipah Bay Wreck, and he admitted his mistake in the meantime. Matter of fact is that the real Japanese shipwreck is not located in Lipah Bay at all, but just a few kilometres further east along the coast, in the village of Banyuning and is great for diving & snorkelling with abundant coral & fish life - this dive site is locally known among the dive operators as the "Japanese Wreck" and is clearly signposted with ample car parking and snorkel equipment rental on location.
Best places for snorkelling are:

• Japanese Shipwreck in Banyuning, small ship at 20m from the beach, awesome corals with tons of fish

• Jemeluk, an absolute highlight with beautiful coral formations and loads of fish.

• in front of Pondok Vienna Beach in Lipah. Waters can be very rough here.

• small wooden shipwreck at Lipah beach

• Bunutan beach, very good stretch between Bedulu Resort and Hotel Santai (eel garden, beautiful coral, not so many fish)

• Selang beach, in front of Good Karma Bungalows (visibility isn't always good because of strong currents)

• in front of Amed Cafe

• Liberty shipwreck at Tulamben, some of which is in water shallow enough to allow snorkelling.

Diving

There is some fine diving in Jemeluk Bay both from the beach and from boats in deeper water. After a gentle slope out from shore, the wall here drops off dramatically to depths of 40 m plus. The coral is healthy and fish life abundant. There are some good drift dives further east at Selang and Bunutan but these are generally only suited to more experienced divers.
Beware of diving after a heavy rain, the water from the run-off can greatly reduce visibility in the water.

The Beach Water Blow is located in the tourist area of Nusa Dua-Bali, about 30 minutes from the Ngurah Rai airport. Named after the beach water blow because the beauty created in this place comes from the Spash hit reefs on the edge of the beach which makes the water soaring. Tourism is very suitable for making photographs of messing about with the backdrop of crashing water.

Water blow Nusa Dua is a water spot on Bali. The waves are big enough and the coral fortifies ' small island ' in Nusa Dua Beach makes it an object of water blow. Pounding waves hit corals will make your adrenaline encouraged a taut. As the waves that come will sweep you in an instant. If you pay attention, you might think that this photo was taken using DSLR camera shutter speed high.