Padang Bai

Padang Bai is a small town and fishing port on the island of Bali in Indonesia. The inhabitants are mostly Hindus. Due to the frequent ferry service to the neighboring island of Lombok, the proportion of Muslims is about 10%. The mosque stands in front of the ferry dock.

Here driving around the clock, about every two hours, ferries to the neighboring islands of Lombok, Nusa Penida, Gilli Trawangan and Lembongan. Some shops are open around the clock. In addition to goods of daily demand snacks and drinks.

Unlike some places in the south of Bali there are no big hotels, but small hostels and pensions, which are also frequented by backpackers and backpackers.

Padang Bai offers a number of small restaurants with maritime, Balinese and international dishes. Distributed in the village there are about 12 diving schools.

The town has four beaches:

• Blue Lagoon: Especially with snorkelers and divers popular.
• Beach village ( Village Beach ): beach near the small hotels.
• White Sand (bias Tugal ): former dream beach with South Seas atmosphere. Today, a ruined building marred the upper part of the mountain.
• Black Sand: Spacious, secluded beach, stretches about 12 km until after Kusamba. Sometimes dolphins can be observed.

Minibuses, called Bemos to drive in all directions, including Denpasar. In addition, there is a shuttle bus station with connections to Candi Dasa, Kuta, Ubud, Lovina and many other popular places of Bali as well as to the airport.

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White Sand Beach

White Sand Beach

White Sand Beach seen from the ferry

The beach directly in the village