amed

amed is a pretty and tranquil 10 kilometres stretch of long black lava beaches, secluded bays and sleepy fishing hamlets. the landward panorama over the green forestry hills and mountains with the 3000 m high volcano mount agung in the distance is magnificent. people still make a great part of their living of salt panning and fishery from their hand carved jukungs, the traditional handmade outriggers parked on the beaches in hundreds.

the walls and slopes along the coast are rich in coral growth and recovered well after the bleaching ten years ago. beautiful gardens of soft corals, seafans, sponges and hard corals are home to a great number of reef fishes and sought after species like ribbon eels, ghost pipe fishes, nudybranchs, the pygmy seahorse, leaf fishes – any dive there's more to discover in the density of corals. the walls are often visited by pelagics like humphead parrot fishes, trevallies and tunas, sharks, napoleons.