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Most things to do on Nusa Lembongan, the small island off Nusa Penida in Bali, Indonesia, happen on the water or along the coast. A morning snorkel trip to the manta bays, an hour in the mangroves by kayak or boat, the cliffs at Devil's Tear and Dream Beach, the surf off the reef and the Yellow Bridge across to the Blue Lagoon on Nusa Ceningan fill one to three days. The planner below sorts them into mornings and afternoons, with the length each operator lists and the partner's price on the day it was read.
sehari one day
Each card is one thing to do. Its width follows the length its listing states, so a one-hour mangrove paddle is a narrow card and a full-day tour runs the width of the page. Pick a slot on a card and it moves into that morning or afternoon; choose one, two or three days at the top of the plan. Lengths are the operators' own; the time to get from one stop to the next is not in any listing, so the plan never adds it.
One way to fill three days. Pick a slot on any card below to change the plan.
Travel between stops is not included.
Travel between stops is not included.
Travel between stops is not included.
Travel between stops is not included.
Taken by a whole-day tour.
Taken by a whole-day tour.
By boat from Nusa Lembongan to the manta bays off Nusa Penida
By boat: Manta Bay, Crystal Bay and the mangroves
By boat to Manta Point and Gamat Bay; mangroves by option
The mangrove channels, by kayak, paddleboard or boat
The reef breaks off the west coast of Nusa Lembongan
1Rock shelf on the south-west coast
2South-west coast, beside Devil’s Tear
3Over the bridge to the west coast of Nusa Ceningan
Nusa Ceningan, in a regional conservation area
4The village beach on the north-west, where boats moor
Both islands by safari truck, eight listed stops
Both islands, with snorkelling at three spots
Snorkel stops, the mangroves by boat, Devil’s Tear and Dream Beach
Across to the west coast of Nusa Penida and back
Across to Nusa Penida by boat, then by car on the island
Three rules make the plan work on the island. The snorkel trips here are half-day listings, so they fit a morning and leave the afternoon for the cliffs. A whole-day tour takes both halves of its day, which is why the planner refuses to add anything beside it. And the cards with no stated length (Devil's Tear, Dream Beach, the bridge) take as long as you stay; leave the afternoon open around them. For a day that has to end on a boat back to Sanur, the Nusa Lembongan day trip page works backwards from the last departure.
pari ray
3,029
manta sightings logged at Manta Bay, 2012 to 2018 (Germanov et al. 2019)
jam hour
3 hours
a manta snorkel trip from Lembongan, as the operator lists it
tangga stairs
100 m
the mangrove boardwalk on Nusa Ceningan, Klungkung Regency states
retribusi levy
17
one-gate attractions on the three islands that charge an attraction levy
pari ray
The trip most people book first leaves from a Lembongan beach and crosses to the bays on the north-west of Nusa Penida. Two sites carry the manta records. In a study of the Nusa Penida marine protected area, Germanov and colleagues (2019) logged 3,029 manta sightings at Manta Bay and 3,058 at Manta Point between 2012 and 2018. They describe both as shallow bays with depths of 7 to 25 m. Manta Point lies off the south coast of Nusa Penida.
A sighting is a likelihood on the day, never a certainty. The snorkel trips below list a manta stop and one or two reef stops; Crystal Bay and Gamat Bay are the names that come up. A Lembongan start saves you the crossing from Bali, so the trip itself is a morning. With children, bring their life jackets: Smartraveller (advice updated 21 October 2026) states it is unlikely that boat crews in Indonesia carry them. The listings here give no minimum age, so ask the operator before you book. The Nusa Penida snorkelling page compares trips from every starting point, and the Manta Point page sets out the seasons and the rules of the marine area.
Manta snorkel trip on Viator
Snorkel trip, kayak or massage by option on GetYourGuide
Snorkel trip with the mangroves on Viator
Snorkel and island day, join-in on Klook
The manta trip on Viator lists three hours with a briefing, a towel and a shower; the GetYourGuide trip runs longer and adds a kayak or a massage as an option; the Viator trip that names Manta Bay, Crystal Bay and the mangroves bundles the mangroves into the same boat. The Klook day is a join-in group day that adds Devil's Tear and Dream Beach on land, so it fills the whole day rather than the morning. If you only want the mangroves, the one-hour trip in the next section is the shorter booking.
jukung outrigger boat
Boats work the mangrove channels on Lembongan, and the shortest booking on this page is an hour among them: 1 Hour Mangrove Tour From Lembongan with Kayak, Paddle, or Boat sponsored. It lists 1 hour, which makes it the card that fits beside almost anything else in a half-day, and its listed price is from US$9.84 per person (about AUD 14) (read 13 November 2026).
Nusa Ceningan has a mangrove walk of its own. Klungkung Regency states the boardwalk with its viewing tower is 100 m long and lies in a regional conservation area (Kawasan Konservasi Daerah). In 2020 the regency put the Ceningan Kangin mangrove area, on former milkfish ponds, at about 3 to 4 hectares. The boardwalk has no published map point, so ask your driver for it on the way to the Ceningan side.
tebing cliff
The south-west corner of Lembongan is the island's free afternoon. Devil's Tear is a rock shelf above a cove, where the waves break hard against the rock; Dream Beach is the sand next door, with Sandy Bay a short way along. Dream Beach is 0.5 km in a straight line from Devil's Tear, and Mushroom Bay, where several boats from Sanur land, is 1.0 km in a straight line from Dream Beach. Those are lines between the points, not routes.
What is stated about the site is short and sober. Klungkung Regency briefed 12 staff for Devil's Tear in 2023, to collect the levy, give visitors information and look after the place. Basarnas Denpasar, the search and rescue office, reported a body found floating off the cliff on 10 March 2023. Swimming and access at the cove are for the regency and the police to state; ask the staff on site, and keep back from the wet rock where the waves break.
The Dream Beach page and the Mushroom Bay page cover the two beaches in full. If you want to wake up at this end of the island, Dream Beach Huts sponsored sits above the beach, listed at US$151 for 2 nights, US$76 a night, about AUD 221 in total on Booking.com (read 13 November 2026); the where to stay on Nusa Lembongan page sorts every stretch of coast.
jalan road
The Yellow Bridge joins Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan.
jalan road
The narrow suspension bridge is the way onto Nusa Ceningan, and crossing it is half the outing. The bridge before it collapsed in 2016: news reports citing Indonesia's disaster agency BNPB put the deaths at 8. Klungkung Regency stated in 2020 that a new car bridge would be built beside the Yellow Bridge, and in 2022 that the design was 190 m long and 9.1 m wide, for four-wheel vehicles. Smartraveller (advice updated 21 October 2026) lists crossing suspension bridges among the risky activities in Indonesia that may not be covered by travel insurance.
The Blue Lagoon is on Ceningan's west coast, 2.1 km in a straight line from the Yellow Bridge. It is a cove under cliffs, seen from above; the Blue Lagoon page carries what is stated about getting down to the water. Pair it with the mangrove boardwalk and you have a morning. The Nusa Ceningan page has the island's loop and its stays.
If you would rather not ride, a tour drives the loop. The Viator tour lists eight stops of the same length each; the Klook day adds snorkelling and runs much longer, so it is a whole day.
Island tour by safari truck on Viator
Both islands, full day, join-in on Klook
ombak waves
Lembongan's surf breaks over the reef off its west coast; the photo looks out toward the break called Playgrounds. The island has a surf scene of its own: the Lembongan Surf Team and PSOI, Indonesia's surfing association, held the LST Surfing and Music Festival 2026 at Pantai Mahagiri, Klungkung Regency states.
Reef breaks reward local knowledge: which break works on which tide and swell, and how you reach it, are questions for a surf school or a boat on the beach. The Nusa Lembongan surf page covers the breaks and the seasons. For the planner, surf is a card with no stated length: put it in a morning or late afternoon slot and leave the rest of that half free.
rumput laut seaweed
Jungutbatu is the village on the north-west shore, where boats moor off the beach. Walk the seafront early and you see the island's working side: boats, nets and the shallows where seaweed was grown for a generation.
A peer-reviewed study by Andréfouët and colleagues (2021) traces that change. Farming began in the late 1970s and had disappeared by 2017. The semi-dry price fell to 2000 rupiah a kilo in 2016 and 2017, and of 50 former farmers interviewed in 2018, half had moved into tourism. Klungkung Regency still counted about 600 seaweed farmers across the Nusa Penida sub-district in 2020.
The Nusa Lembongan guide has the island's background and how it compares with Nusa Penida as a base.
perahu boat
The big island's cliffs are a short boat ride away, and two listings start on Lembongan: a boat across, a car on Nusa Penida and the boat back. The Viator tour lists the west coast loop with Kelingking Beach, Broken Beach and Angel's Billabong; the Klook day is a private-group day on the island. What the listings give is the stops and the price; neither states the crossing time between the islands or the pickup and return times, and no operator prints a crossing time, so ask for both when you book. Either one is a whole day in the planner. The things to do on Nusa Penida page sets out every loop, and Kelingking Beach has its own page with what the regency states about the stairs.
Nusa Penida west coast day on Viator
Nusa Penida day, private group on Klook
biaya cost
Every price below is the partner's own listed price per person on the day it was read, in the currency the listing shows. The free half of the island (Devil's Tear, Dream Beach, the bridge and the seafront) costs what you pay to get there: a scooter, a truck ride or your feet.
Prices read 13 November 2026. Klook lists in Australian dollars; Viator and GetYourGuide list in US dollars, shown with Australian dollars at Bank Indonesia rates.
Klungkung Regency charges a levy on visitors to its islands. The poster it published with Easybook in February 2026, under its 2023 regulation, states one levy ticket covers Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan. The regency's Regulation No. 4 of 2026 lists the island of Nusa Lembongan-Ceningan as a tourism area of its own for the recreation levy, with no separate amount in that text, and names 17 one-gate attractions across the three islands that charge an attraction levy at the gate. The amount per adult and child, in rupiah with dollars beside it, is on the day trip page; the Bali tourist tax page adds up every levy for a group.
pertanyaan questions
A morning snorkel trip to the manta bays, an hour in the mangroves by kayak or boat, the cliffs at Devil's Tear with Dream Beach beside them, and the Yellow Bridge across to the Blue Lagoon on Nusa Ceningan. Surfers add the reef breaks. With a third day, many people cross to Nusa Penida on a tour that starts on Lembongan.
Often, but never for certain. Snorkel trips from Lembongan cross to Manta Bay or Manta Point off Nusa Penida. Germanov and colleagues logged 3,029 sightings at Manta Bay and 3,058 at Manta Point between 2012 and 2018, in bays 7 to 25 m deep. A sighting stays a likelihood on the day.
The listings on this page start at from US$21.09 per person (about AUD 31) for the Viator trip to Manta Bay, Crystal Bay and the mangroves, and from US$26 per person (about AUD 38) for the manta trip, read 13 November 2026. Klook's join-in snorkel and mangrove day lists AUD 35.25 per person. The island levy is separate.
Yes. Klungkung Regency staffs the site: it briefed 12 people in 2023 to collect the levy, inform visitors and keep the place up. Waves break hard on the rock shelf, and Basarnas Denpasar reported a body found off the cliff in 2023. Keep back from the wet edge and follow what the staff on site say.
Over the Yellow Bridge, on foot or by scooter. Klungkung Regency plans a car bridge beside it; its 2022 design was 190 m long and 9.1 m wide. The Blue Lagoon on Ceningan's west coast is 2.1 km in a straight line from the bridge. Island tours by truck also cross it.
The pages that settle the next question after the activities:
Lembongan as a day trip Where to stay Nusa Ceningan Blue Lagoon Dream Beach Mushroom Bay Surf Snorkelling The Lembongan guide
