It’s fine. The beach itself was quite nice, not really pink at all from a distance but close up you can see the broken down red shells and bits. It was clean and there are quite some facilities like food and toilets.
The road to get there has some very rough parts but go slow and you’re fine. Entrance was 10k per person (they literally have a fence that they lift to give you access) and you go down a very steep road.
We hired a local fisherman for 100k per person to bring us to the snorkeling spots nearby (Gili Gambir and Gili Petelu) which were incredible. Colourful coral and many fish, we even found a banded sea krait and also a small blacktip reef shark (on the east...
Read moreIt’s worth it just for snorkeling. We negotiate price with locals on the beach and guy took us by small gillis nearby to snorkeling. Corals and tones of beautiful dishes. My best snorkeling (even after three gilli boat trip). It’s not busy place and you can snorkel almost alone around the corals. You can get easily on the beach with motorbike (10k for entrance). On the Beach it’s lot of litter, doga and annoying monkeys. Don’t expect pink sand. It’s just ocassionaly visible. But still nice, you can see red dead corals on the beach. But for snorkeling you need to...
Read moreNot pink and the place is filthy, rubbish and pollution everywhere…it was extremely sad to see. A reasonable fee is charged to enter, I expect this fee should in some way contribute to sustaining what could be a very beautiful beach.
It seems the locals just discard all plastic on the beach and it washes away into the ocean…horrible. I don’t recommend wasting your time driving to visit this. Also the road is extremely damaged and needs replacement / repair. I almost didn’t make it on a scooter as there was so many sections of...
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