tangga stairs
Diamond Beach, on the east coast of Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia, is a cove at the foot of the cliffs with a stairway cut down the rock face. Go down for the beach and the offshore rocks seen from the sand, not for a swim: Coconuts Bali reported a swimming ban here in January 2023, until further notice, and Basarnas, the national search and rescue agency, reports swimmers swept away by the current. Atuh Beach sits in the next cove, 0.4 km in a straight line, and the east-coast tours stop at both on the same morning.
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tebing cliff
The drawing follows a visitor from the car park on the plateau, past the levy point, down the steps in the cliff to the sand, with the Atuh headland behind. It is a sketch of the order of things on the way down. Heights and step counts are left off because the regency and the rescue reports give none for the stairway itself.
Diamond Beach is on Klungkung Regency's list of one-gate attractions, so the attraction levy of IDR 25,000 per adult (about AUD 2, USD 1.4 or GBP 1) is paid here, on top of the island levy.
The view down to the beach and the offshore rocks opens at the plateau edge. Thousand Islands Viewpoint is 0.4 km in a straight line to the south-west, on the same headland.
The steps are cut into the face of the cliff. Basarnas Denpasar, the search and rescue office, gives the cliff as about 350 m high in its report of a construction worker who died after falling from it in February 2024. That is the report's figure for the cliff, not a measured height of the stairway.
Coconuts Bali reported in January 2023 that Diamond Beach was among the beaches with swimming banned until further notice, while the beach stayed open. Basarnas reports a casualty carried up the stairs by stretcher in July 2023, because the waves ruled out the sea.
Atuh Beach lies in the next cove, 0.4 km in a straight line. It is a separate one-gate attraction on the regency's list, so its levy is paid at its own gate.
pantai beach
It depends on what you came for. The outline of the cove, the offshore rocks and the colour of the water are all visible from the top of the stairway. If a photograph from above is the goal, the plateau gives it, and the other east-coast sights are close by: Thousand Islands Viewpoint is 0.4 km in a straight line along the same headland.
The stairway is for the sand. Down there you stand among the rocks you saw from above, with the cliff behind you. The price is the climb back up the same steps, and a beach where the water is off limits.
The view over the cove, one attraction levy, and time for Atuh Beach and the viewpoint on the same morning.
The beach from the sand, the same climb back, and a shore where Coconuts Bali reported a swimming ban and rescues depend on the stairs or the sea state.
Basarnas Denpasar reports that in July 2023 a man swept away by the current here was carried up the stairs by stretcher, because extreme waves ruled out a pickup by boat. When the sea is rough, the steps are how a casualty comes out.
The Kelingking Beach page sets out the same choice on the west coast, at a beach named in the same reported swimming ban.
ombak waves
No. Coconuts Bali reported a swimming ban in January 2023 (swimming banned) at Diamond Beach, Kelingking Beach and Angel's Billabong, until further notice, with the beaches themselves staying open. The ban came in the same month as the first of the rescue reports below.
January 2023
Two foreign tourists, a German and an Austrian, were swept away; after a seven-day search in heavy waves they were still missing.
July 2023
An Indian man died after being swept by the current around midday. He was carried up by stretcher because of extreme waves.
February 2024
A construction worker died after falling from the cliff, which the report gives as about 350 m high.
The Australian Government's Smartraveller advice (updated October 2026) states that many beaches in Indonesia are unpatrolled and can be dangerous due to rough seas and strong currents. The US CDC advises travellers in Indonesia to swim only in designated areas and obey lifeguards and warning flags, and to wear a life jacket always when boating (page reviewed August 2026). What the advisories say for the whole island is on is Nusa Penida safe.
If you want time in the water on the same trip, the boat-based trips on snorkelling around Nusa Penida go out with an operator and its crew, and the Manta Point page covers the best-known site.
laut sea
The south and east coasts face open water, with pinnacles and sea stacks off the cliffs. The surf that shapes them is the same water the rescue reports describe.
sehari one day
The two beaches share a headland. Atuh Beach is 0.4 km in a straight line from Diamond Beach, and three of the four Viator listings in the strip below name both. The private east-only listing stops at Atuh and the Molenteng tree houses but not at Diamond, and the Klook west-and-east listing names Diamond and Thousand Islands Viewpoint but not Atuh.
The order varies. One listing starts at Atuh and goes on to Diamond; two others start at Diamond. The minutes they give each stop are below the strip; the listings say nothing about the drive from one car park to the next. Each beach is a separate gate on the regency's levy list, so a morning at both pays the attraction levy twice.
Further along the coast, Teletubbies Hill is 5.0 km in a straight line from Diamond Beach and Suwehan Beach 2.7 km in a straight line. The west coast sights are on the far side of the island: Kelingking Beach is 16 km in a straight line, which is why west-and-east tours make for a long day. How that day runs from Bali is on the Nusa Penida day trip, and every point is on the Nusa Penida map.
Nusa Penida Instagram Tour The Most Famous Spots (All-Inclusive)(Viator)
Minutes per stop as listed: Diamond Beach 60 minutes, Atuh Beach 60 minutes, Kelingking Beach 120 minutes, Molenteng tree houses 60 minutes
One Day Nusa Penida Island West & East(Viator)
Minutes per stop as listed: Atuh Beach 60 minutes, Diamond Beach 60 minutes, Kelingking Beach 60 minutes, Crystal Bay 60 minutes
Nusa Penida Private Day Trip with Driver(Viator)
Minutes per stop as listed: Kelingking Beach 60 minutes, Broken Beach 60 minutes, Angel's Billabong 60 minutes, Crystal Bay 60 minutes, Diamond Beach 60 minutes, Atuh Beach 60 minutes, Molenteng tree houses 60 minutes
East Nusa Penida Highlights: Private Full-Day Day Trip from Bali(Viator)
Minutes per stop as listed: Atuh Beach 40 minutes, Molenteng tree houses 40 minutes, Teletubbies Hill 40 minutes
Stops in the order each listing gives them, as listed on 13 November 2026. Chips in gold are Diamond Beach, chips in indigo the other east-coast stops, plain chips the west coast. No listing gives the driving time between stops.
retribusi levy
IDR 25,000
attraction levy per adult at Diamond Beach, Klungkung Regency, about AUD 2, USD 1.4 or GBP 1
pulau island
IDR 25,000
Nusa Penida island levy per foreign adult, paid once on entry
wisata touring
17 attractions
one-gate attractions on the regency's 2026 list, Diamond Beach and Atuh Beach among them
biaya cost
Klungkung Regency's tourism office states the Tourist Attraction Levy (Retribusi Daya Tarik Wisata) is IDR 25,000 per adult and IDR 15,000 per child (about AUD 1.2, USD 0.8 or GBP 0.6) at each attraction visited, and that it applies to all visitors, foreign and domestic. Klungkung Regency Regulation No. 4 of 2026 lists 17 one-gate attractions on the three islands, with Diamond Beach and Atuh Beach as separate entries, and it has applied the levy since September 2026.
The Nusa Penida Tourism Levy (Retribusi Kawasan) comes on top: IDR 25,000 per foreign adult and IDR 15,000 per child, for foreign visitors only, paid once on entry, the tourism office states. Klungkung Regency's levy poster of February 2026, issued under its 2023 regulation, states that one ticket covers Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan; the regency's Regulation No. 4 of 2026 lists Nusa Lembongan-Ceningan as a levy area of its own (kawasan wisata pulau nusa lembongan-ceningan). The Bali tourist levy is a separate provincial charge, set out on the Bali tourist tax page.
Attraction levy, Diamond Beach gate
IDR 25,000
about AUD 2, USD 1.4 or GBP 1
per adult; IDR 15,000 per child. Paid again at the Atuh Beach gate. Klungkung Regency, 2026.
Nusa Penida island levy
IDR 25,000
about AUD 2, USD 1.4 or GBP 1
per foreign adult; IDR 15,000 per child. Once per visit to the island. Klungkung Regency, 2026.
Rupiah converted at Bank Indonesia rates of 13 November 2026.
wisata touring
Diamond Beach appears in 2 of 6 day-tour types on the Nusa Penida tours page, which lines every type up side by side. Three listings to start with, one more below. West-and-east listings ran US$49.48 to 119 (about AUD 73 to 174) on Viator as listed on 13 November 2026.
West and east in one day on Viator
West and east in one day on Viator
West and east in one day on Klook
Private driver on Viator
menginap staying the night
A night on the island means no boat crossing on the day you climb the stairs. These two listings are on the east side; the where to stay on Nusa Penida page compares the island's areas and the drive each one means.
Stay on Booking.com
Stay on Booking.com
pertanyaan questions
No. Coconuts Bali reported in January 2023 that swimming at Diamond Beach was banned until further notice, while the beach stayed open. Basarnas Denpasar reports two tourists swept away that month and still missing after a seven-day search, and a man who died in the current in July 2023. The US CDC advises swimming only in designated areas with lifeguards.
No. Diamond Beach is on the east coast of Nusa Penida, in a cove next to Atuh Beach. Kelingking Beach is on the west coast, 16 km in a straight line. Both have a stairway down a cliff and were named in the same reported swimming ban, and west-and-east tours visit both in one long day from Bali.
Klungkung Regency charges the attraction levy of IDR 25,000 per adult at Diamond Beach (about AUD 2, USD 1.4 or GBP 1) and IDR 15,000 per child. Foreign visitors also pay the island levy of IDR 25,000 per adult once on arrival. Atuh Beach next door has its own gate and its own levy.
Atuh Beach is 0.4 km in a straight line from Diamond Beach, in the next cove along the same headland. The tours that list both stop at them on the same morning, in either order. No listing gives the driving time between the two car parks, so plan on two separate stops.
For the view, yes, and you get it from the top of the stairway without going down. The walk to the sand is for people who want to stand on the beach among the rocks and accept the climb back. Swimming is not part of it: Coconuts Bali reported the ban in January 2023 as lasting until further notice.
