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August 2007

When the colors of sinuous carved terraces in the mountains alternate between the intense green of the emerald keep planting rice just check, silver reflective of the waters of flooded rice fields and caressed by the rays of the sun, or stay locked in when half a dense crowd of people in procession and you find yourself in a riot of scents, songs and color, glossy fruit baskets, ordered a pyramid, poised on a small head of a woman with her hair gathered, adorned with colorful flowers and placed at art for the festival, while men and children are perfectly dressed in white shirt, sarong and traditional headgear, when you see everywhere small tenders for the gods made up of small baskets of leaf palm with Ghirlandina inside a leaf, un po 'di rice, colorful flowers, a cookie, candy or whatever, all accompanied by at least one naturally lit incense stick, you find all that you can not really go wrong, you come to Bali!

Bali is one of the smaller islands belonging to the vast Indonesian archipelago, made up of about 13,000 islands, its surface is about 5600 square kilometers (more or less as half of Sicily) and is located a few degrees south of the equator, then enjoy an average annual temperature is around 26 ° C. As in most of Asia, are the only two seasons: summer, hot, humid and rainy, which runs from November to March and winter, dry and ventilated, which runs from April to October.
One of the goals chosen our summer trip to Bali was a small and simple island, not much frequented by mass tourism, Nusa Lembongan, which is located a few miles off the southeast coast of Bali, protected by the largest Nusa Penida to the Ocean and through an folklore attached iron bridge to the tiny Nusa Ceningan.
Overlooking the Strait of Badung, Nusa Lembongan lies on a strip of land of about 3 to 4 kilometers and boasts of beautiful white beaches and vast expanses of mangroves, in addition of course to a beautiful coral reef that makes it an ideal place for those who like to do diving, although the small island is especially famous among surfers for its waves.

Fortunately, today you can stay directly on Lembongan in a lovely little resort, mostly composed of about a dozen bungalow with sea view, that arise directly on the beach, Jungutbatu in order to enjoy life on the island with its magnificent backdrops, with its spectacular dawns and sunsets and also to be able to attend in person to all the different stages of cultivation, harvesting and drying algae (Eucheuma), the main asset of the island, from which the multinationals extract thickeners and stabilizers contained in virtually all our food.

The sea around the islands naturally beautiful and offers many dive sites and is often beaten by strong cold currents that sometimes help clean the water regalandoci also really fantastic visibility, while others can become very dangerous.
We have chosen the World Diving (http://www.world-diving.com/), which we believe is the best on the island, both in terms of competence, both for availability, both for the organization of the boats.

Some dives are not really underestimated because sometimes strong currents can become very dangerous and unpredictable. In many points are clearly visible, even from the so-called "Washing machines", or areas of strong current whirling climb or descending trovarcisi inside and can be very dangerous even for experienced divers! Then, always very careful when you choose a diving in places like!

The main attraction of diving in these wonderful islands are spectacular and rare meetings with the buffissimo and imposing Mola mola, the Fish Moon Oceanic, which in English is called instead Sunfish (Fish Sole), presumably because of its nearly round shape and its exaggerated size, and because during the days of sun tends to rise to the surface.
The Mola mola is the largest bony fish in the world, is a pelagic fish that grows up to 3 meters in length and up to a weight of over 2 tons, with the dorsal and ventral fins can be extended to measure up to 4 meters. Its caudal fin has really very little mobility being un'escrescenza fleshy, and the locomotion is totally entrusted to the other two opposed, symmetrical fins. Branquial openings are reduced to a hole just before the pectoral fin; no real teeth but a sort of spout that protrudes from the tiny mouth and disproportionate. His skin is rough and tough, no scales, can reach even the thickness of 15 cm and usually hosts up to 50 different species of parasites.
He lives mainly in temperate and tropical waters feeds on plankton, small fish and jellyfish, live offshore, but often sighted along the coastal waters. It is also an extremely long fish: presumably exceed widely the hundred years of age.

During a dive in Crystal Bay, also called Penida Bay, we had the great fortune of having seen two and honestly until Watching them live you can not just give an account of how large and powerful; the first arrived from inside the bay and we went ahead, however, remained at a safe distance of about a dozen meters, the second hand, to our great joy, come directly from the blue, we approached a few centimeters, allowing you to to see a fantastic spectacle. It was exactly what the moment when he decided to approach the wall to get clean fish barrier. The scene was something incredible: imagine a big fish Moonlight over 2 meters long that is approaching slowly towards us, totally unmindful of our presence to the point that there siamo Watched shocked and appalled by what was happening. Then he stopped, opened the small round mouth and behold, in just a few moments, the show just materialize before our eyes: a cloud of butterfly fish from banner is scaled to him for thoroughly cleaning the parasites in all its smallest fold, a platoon of garbage at work as a real station cleaning! A truly amazing performance ...

Other wonderful that you can dive in the waters of these beautiful islands are:

Toyapakeh which is located in the north-west of Nusa Penida in Ceningan channel, rather then always protected by strong currents and almost always with good visibility. A wall full of hard and soft corals, crinoidi multicolored, decorated by huge sea fans and barrel sponges, inhabited by clouds of fish barrier, large moray eels, Nudibranch colored scorpion mimetizzati, despite fish hawk and a buffissima Mantis that played hide and seek;

PED and SD, are among the sites most popular diving on the island and are located on the north coast of Nusa Penida. A hard coral reef that descends gently up to 20 meters and then descends vertically up to 40 meters deep. Wide variety of small fish barrier as Anthias, crossbow, angel, butterfly, scorpion fish, families of clown fish, sponges wonderful barrel mostly inhabited by small pink Lauriea Siagiani etiquette and giant moray eels;

Pura Mas Gading, another wonderful site, where we had the great pleasure of seeing two beautiful fish blacks rather large frog, a fish stone camouflaged in a sepia incredible and really huge and not at all scared!

The diving here to Lembongan can really be among the most exciting dive of your life but we still recommend to always listen very carefully to the advice we receive from your divemaster and we suggest that you do not want to insist on a draft that he does not recommend for that day!

And like every night, at the end of our day, in front of an inviting beer ice pending the colors of sunset, a beautiful picture is painted before our eyes: the tide has already left everything to dry, while the children play not happy giving respite to a few small fish remained imprisoned in a small puddle of water, an elderly gentleman is being done on the arm to load the last two baskets of harvested seaweed and is advancing slowly on the sand, sinking with every step, under the weight of the mighty load; the slender two-seater canoes carved in a single tree trunk have already been pulled in all dry on the beach, while large ones, with the scan time, we are already inclined Put on the bottom because of low tide.

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