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Nusa Ceningan is the small island between Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida in Bali, Indonesia. You reach it from Lembongan over the Yellow Bridge. Klungkung Regency gives its ring road as 3.7 km, with the Blue Lagoon on the west coast and a mangrove boardwalk of 100 m in a conservation area. From a Lembongan base, half a day covers the bridge, the lagoon and the mangroves. A night or two on Ceningan suits you if you want to sleep near the Blue Lagoon and still reach Lembongan's boats.
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peta map
Tap a stop on the map or in the list for what Klungkung Regency and the news record say about it. The order below the map is one way to see the island in half a day from Nusa Lembongan.
The suspension bridge joins Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan at 8.69395° S, 115.45091° E. News reports citing Indonesia's disaster agency, BNPB, stated that the earlier Yellow Bridge collapsed on 16 October 2016, killing 8 people.
Two boat landings sit by it on the Lembongan side: Eka Jaya names the Yellow Bridge as its Lembongan port, and Rocky Fast Cruise docks at its private harbour in Telatak village near the bridge.
Klungkung Regency stated in 2020 that a new car bridge would be built beside the Yellow Bridge. In 2022 it gave the design as 190 m long and 9.1 m wide, carrying four-wheel vehicles. Those are the regency's planning statements of 2020 and 2022; none of them gives an opening date.
The cove on Ceningan's west coast, at 8.70853° S, 115.43905° E, is 2.1 km in a straight line from the Yellow Bridge. The Blue Lagoon page covers the cove itself.
Klungkung Regency states the Nusa Ceningan ring road (Jalan Lingkar Ceningan) is 3.7 km long, and in a news item of 8 September 2026 that works to upgrade it have begun. The map shades the island, not the road, whose course is not drawn.
Klungkung Regency states the boardwalk with its viewing tower is 100 m long, built with Bappenas funds, and lies in a regional conservation area (Kawasan Konservasi Daerah). In 2020 it put the Ceningan Kangin mangrove area, on former milkfish ponds, at about 3 to 4 hectares. No map point is published for it.
Distances are straight lines between the points, not road distances or times. Coming from Mushroom Bay instead, the Yellow Bridge is 2.4 km in a straight line.
jalan road
Ceningan is reached through Nusa Lembongan. You take a fast boat from Sanur to Nusa Lembongan, a crossing of 30 to 45 minutes, as 5 operators state, and cross the Yellow Bridge from there. Two operators land close to the bridge. From Sanur, Rocky Fast Cruise docks at its private harbour in Telatak village near the bridge, a crossing it gives as 35 to 45 minutes. Eka Jaya names the Yellow Bridge as its Lembongan port, but its boats leave from Padang Bai and Serangan, not Sanur.
From Mushroom Bay on Lembongan's west coast, where other boats land, the bridge is 2.4 km in a straight line. Ports, timetables and fares for every Lembongan boat are on Sanur to Nusa Lembongan; boats to the big island are on fast boat to Nusa Penida.
The bridge has a hard history. News reports citing Indonesia's disaster agency BNPB stated that the earlier Yellow Bridge collapsed on 16 October 2016, killing 8 people. Klungkung Regency has since planned a second, wider bridge for cars beside the present one: 190 m long and 9.1 m wide, in its statement of 2022.
Smartraveller (advice updated 21 October 2026) lists crossing suspension bridges among the risky activities in Indonesia that may not be covered by travel insurance, so check your policy's wording before the trip, the more so with children.
tebing cliff
The Blue Lagoon is a cove on Ceningan's west coast, below cliffs, at 8.70853° S, 115.43905° E. From the Yellow Bridge it is 2.1 km in a straight line, on the far side of the island.
The cove, the cliffs around it and what to know before you go are on the Blue Lagoon page. Elsewhere the coast is rock and surf; the second photo shows an arch on it. The seaweed photo further down shows the Ceningan surf break offshore, and the Nusa Lembongan surf page covers the breaks of both islands.
Klungkung Regency Regulation No. 4 of 2026 lists 17 one-gate attractions on Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan that charge an attraction levy, so a stop on the coast may come with a gate fee.
rumput laut seaweed
Boats rest on the Ceningan reef flat when the tide is out.
laut sea
Klungkung Regency built a mangrove boardwalk with a viewing tower on Nusa Ceningan, 100 m long and paid for with Bappenas funds, the national planning agency. It states that the track lies in a regional conservation area (Kawasan Konservasi Daerah), so the mangroves around it are protected ground.
In 2020 the regency put the Ceningan Kangin mangrove area at about 3 to 4 hectares, on former milkfish ponds it wanted to bring back into aquaculture. The photos here were taken on Lembongan: a jukung at the edge of the mangroves, and seaweed farms at low tide.
The boardwalk has no published map point, so it shows as a stop without a pin on the map above. Ask your driver or guide to include it; the Lembongan mangrove trips by boat are on things to do on Nusa Lembongan.
jalan road
3.7 km
ring road under upgrade works, Klungkung Regency states in a news item of 8 September 2026
tebing cliff
190 m
length of the planned car bridge (Klungkung Regency, 2022)
laut sea
100 m
mangrove boardwalk with viewing tower
menginap staying the night
398
lodgings on Lembongan and Ceningan together, September 2019 (Andréfouët et al. 2021)
sehari one day
Half a day suits most visitors. From a bed on Lembongan you cross the bridge in the morning, see the Blue Lagoon and the mangroves, and are back for the afternoon on Lembongan's beaches. The order on the map does exactly that. Island tours combine both islands in one day.
A night or two suits you if you want to wake on the island, stay near the Blue Lagoon and keep Lembongan's boats one bridge away. Andréfouët and colleagues (2021) counted 398 lodgings across Lembongan and Ceningan together in September 2019, so beds on Ceningan are a share of that number. Compare both islands on where to stay on Nusa Lembongan.
A day from Bali also works, with less slack: the Nusa Lembongan day trip page sets out the boat times that day must fit.
Tours that cover Lembongan and Ceningan in one day:
Island tour on Viator
Island tour on Klook
menginap staying the night
Five Nusa Ceningan stays across the price range, lowest two-night total first, from a beach house to The Purist Beach resort, with each partner's listed price and the date it was read. Beds on both islands are compared on the where to stay page.
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retribusi levy
Klungkung Regency's levy poster of February 2026, issued with Easybook under its 2023 regulation, states that one ticket covers Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan. Its Regulation No. 4 of 2026 lists the island of Nusa Lembongan-Ceningan as a tourism area of its own for the recreation levy, separate from Nusa Penida island, and sets no separate amount in that text. Ask at the harbour whether a ticket bought on one island is accepted on the other. The adult and child amounts are on the Nusa Lembongan page.
The Bali tourist levy is a separate provincial charge, set out on the Bali tourist tax page.
pertanyaan questions
For half a day, yes, if you are on Nusa Lembongan already. The Yellow Bridge, the Blue Lagoon on the west coast and the mangrove boardwalk fit in a morning, and the ring road is only 3.7 km long. A night there suits you if you want to wake near the Blue Lagoon, one bridge from Lembongan's boats.
Take a fast boat from Sanur to Nusa Lembongan, which operators state takes 30 to 45 minutes, and cross the Yellow Bridge. From Sanur, Rocky Fast Cruise docks at its harbour in Telatak near the bridge; Eka Jaya, sailing from Padang Bai and Serangan, names the bridge as its Lembongan port.
News reports citing Indonesia's disaster agency BNPB stated that the earlier Yellow Bridge collapsed on 16 October 2016, killing 8 people. A bridge stands there again today. Klungkung Regency has planned a car bridge beside it, which it described in 2022 as 190 m long.
Ceningan has stays from simple beach houses to resorts such as The Purist Beach; five are listed on this page with their Booking.com prices. Andréfouët and colleagues (2021) counted 398 lodgings on Lembongan and Ceningan together in September 2019. Many visitors stay on Lembongan and cross the bridge for the day instead.
Klungkung Regency's February 2026 poster, under its 2023 regulation, states one ticket covers Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan, and its Regulation No. 4 of 2026 lists Lembongan-Ceningan as a levy area of its own. One-gate attractions on the three islands charge a separate attraction levy at the gate. The Bali tourist levy is charged by the province.
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