Mimpi Dive Center

A fully-maintained PADI Dive Center is available on site to cater both beginner and experienced divers. Safety and easy diving begins with well-trained and attentive staffs and professionals as well as well-maintained equipments and standards. Daily boat dive arrangement is made to go to the famous Menjangan island. Boat is arranged to depart at 09:00 am after breakfast directly from the resort's beach. It will approximately take 30 minutes to the island. For two dives, arrival back to the resort is approximately 2:30 pm so that an ample of time is still available to enjoy the resort. Soaking in the hot spring after diving is our unique privilege. Secret Bay or Mimpi Tunnel just across the resort bay can be easily explored from the resort. For non-divers but watersport enthusiasts, snorkeling, canoeing or sea-biking is an ideal option.

Menjangan Island, easily accessible by boat direct from the resort, is renewed for its colorful corals, excellent visibility and endless varieties of tropical fishes, large and small.

Mimpi Dive Center is associated with PADI and equipped with full facilities. Foreign dive instructors and balinese staff are ready to assist all diving and snorkeling trips.

Diving Around Menjangan Island

Once out of the mouth the Bay, Mimpi boats can take you to the diving spots in less than 30 minutes. The island is surrounded with underwater walls, slopes and caves, and the excellent blue visibility offers some of the best diving experience in Bali.

Dive Course Activity

Dive Course Activity

A small Boat transfers the divers to a large boat... then straight off to Menjangan Island. For Non Divers, snorkeling and picnic trips to Menjangan Island can be arranged with rental equipment and luch box.

Kayaking Activity

Under Water World

map of menjangan island with its 7 dive points as per number

The island is part of the Bali Barat National Park, a protected reserve area that encompasses 780 square kilometers. The names menjangan means “deer”. Because the island is in a protected position, currents and wind-generate waves are rarely a bother. The water can be clear-a snorkeler, distinct, 50 meters above and the rest of the time the visibility seldom drops to less than 25 meters.

The coral walls around Menjangan are vertical down to 30-60 meters, and then slope outward. The reef surface is particularly rugged : caves, grottoes, crevasses and funnel-like splits break up the coral wall, and the surface is textured with little nooks and crannies. Gorgonians of many kinds reach large size here, and huge barrel sponges are abundant. Soft corals blanket the colorful wall all the way down.

The island offers fine diving to suit every taste with 7 recommended sites to explore.

1. Temple Point : a sandy site in the eastern tip of the island, a good point to see crocodile fish and nudibranchs.
2. POS II : a rich reef-wall site up to 50 meters deep with huge gorgonian fans, surgeonfish, jaclfish, batfish, angelfish, coral cod, nudibranchs, shrimps, trevally, lionfish, parrotfish, scorpionfish and shark.
3. Cave Point : several underwater caves with interesting rock structures to explore inside.
4. POS I : a sandy slope site from 2 down to 30 meters with lots of soft corals and gorgonians, lionfish, shrimp gobies, sea stars, mantis shrimp, small coral cod and royal dottybacks. Some divers have even witnessed whale shark here.
5. Garden Eel : a shallow sandy bottom area alive with garden eels which has terrific hard corals with large gorgonian fans, huge barrel sponges, coral cod, angelfish, lionfish, scorpionfish, basslets, anemone fish, cuttlefish, trumpet fish, frogfish, mandarin fish, napoleon fish and school of pelagics
6. Anker Wreck : believed to have laid there for over century, it is 25 meters long and sits 45 meters deep. Flat rectangular sheets lay in what had been the hold which also contains an assortment of ceramic and glass bottles. The wreck is communalized by soft corals, a good site to see turtle and shark.
7. Coral Garden : a tees sloping wall leading from 8 down to 4o meters with lots of soft corals, gorgonias and sponges, some large snappers, a few blue-spotted trevally, schools of fusiliers and a black-tip reef shark.

Craggy Walls

The coral walls around Menjangan are vertical down to 30-60 meters, and then slope outward. The reef surface is particularly rugged: caves, grottoes, crevasses and funnel-like splits break up the coral wall, and the surface is textured with little nooks and crannies. Gorgonians of many kinds reach large sizes here, and huge barrel sponges are abundant. Soft corals blanket the colorful walls all the way down. The fish here is somewhat inferior to other dive sites but the numbers are good and some of the fish are quite bold.

The Anchor Wreck

Menjangan's westren tip holds a deeper, but more interesting dive on an old wreck. The so-called"Anker" wreck is just off the coast, near a small dock and guardpost maintained by the Park Service (PHPA).

It seems obvious that the craft, probably a cooper-sheathed sailor from the last century, tried to anchor just off the reef, broke the anchor chain, sunk and slid back to its resting place on the sloping sand bottom. It is a small ship, just 25 meters long, and its stern sits in 45 meters of water.

Flat rectangular sheets, perhaps cooper sheathing material, lay in what had been the hold, which also contains an assortment of ceramic and glass bottles. These perhaps had contained arak, a powerful local booze distilled from palm wine that had been a major trade item of the last century. Miraculously, previous divers have not stolen all the bottles - yet. Large gorgonians grow on the wreck as well as the slope leading to it. The wreck and the area around it was dominated by soft corals.

The Secret Bay

Approximately 30 minutes drive from the resort, located on an adjacent bay to ferry harbor of Gilimanuk, the Secret Bay is a unique easy shore dive often considered as a site for new discoveries and best for macro photography. It is 25 C (77 F) on average, a chilly 5 C colder than most other dive sites around Bali. This is due to the nearby deep water cold currents which are directed into the bay by upwelling and the daily tidal changes. It is because of this cold water, along with the shallow sand and sea grass environment that makes this place so special. It has a unique blend of tropical, temperate, Indian and Pacific ocean species, all living in the same bay.

Among the many varieties like seahorses, nudibranchs, gobies and dragonets, it is the abundant and variety of anglerfish and scorpionfish that makes this dive site so exiting. There are at least 4 different species of anglerfish that have been found in Secret Bay including the Spotfin Anglerfish and Sargassum Anglerfish . But it is one species which has been producing great interest, locally known as Tono's Anglerfish , about 30 cm in length and usually yellow coloration. It has an interesting esca (bait) that is unusual to any other species. This indicates it may be a new sub-species or even a new species all together.

Secret Bay has the most stunning variety and diversity of scorpionfish. One of the most common species found here is the Dwarf Lionfish (Dendrochirus branchypterus) , which, due to its surrounding environment, has adapted its coloration to a dazzling rusty red body with vivid green eyes. The Blue-Finned Lionfish is apparently a first for Indonesian waters. With the eclectic blue pattern on its pectoral, it is very easy to see how it got its name.

Mimpi Channel

Other Points
The Garden Eel in the west tip of the island offers superb white sandy point with abundant garden eel population. With an approximate depth of 18 to 25 meters, it is also home to goby, shrimp and jowfish. Even manta ray may be occasionally spotted along its drop-off sites. The southern part, where three major points line up, has dynamic structural sites with dramatic vertical walls and several unique underwater caves along its middle part.

Pos 1 has an approximate depth of 1 to 3 meters with enormous coral reef as well as such varieties as batfish, bluefin travelly and giant travelly. Deeper sites along Cave Point and Pos 2 is known to feature several large species as the white and black tip reef shark as well as turtle. Frequent current flow along the southeastern corner of the island makes it a bit difficult to thoroughly discover the sites along the Bat Cave Point.

In the eastern tip coast stands Kelenting Sari, believed to be one of the oldest Hindu temples of Bali. The site just off the temple coast features enormous hard and soft coral formations. This lines up to Coral Garden in the mid-northern part of the island.

The Mimpi Resort Menjangan provides an easy access to dive Menjangan island as well as other points nearby the island. Daily excursion to the island is organized with boat taking approximately 30 minutes.