Baliku Dive Resort — Hotel in Kecamatan Abang

A beautiful stay with lovely traditional balinese stonework and furnishings. I stayed in the very large 2 bedroom villa surrounded by tropical gardens. This resort is nestled on the hillside above Bunyuning fishing village with stunning mountain and ocean views. At sunrise watching more than 1,000 sail boats come back from the deep ocean to the little village was a real spectacle. These traditional colourful Jukung fishing boats are magical to watch from this birds eye view.

Nearby trekking in the mountains and canyons with a guide can be organised. The beach, Japanese Wreck Beach, is 100 metres away. Easy access. Just walk in from the shore and snorkel around the wreck. A huge array of tropical fish and very colourful live coral around the wreck. It’s stunning.

Ask for directions to the local silversmith and watch him at work. My favourite time was evening. The stargazing is so beautiful as the nightsky explodes into a thousand lights. Amed is far away from the bright lights and there are no big towns nearby.

We were lucky to be treated to a dance performance by the local village girls in full costume. They performed 3 Balinese Hindu temple dances. Magical stuff.

The staff are so friendly and attentive and the menu is both Western and Balinese.

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My family stayed at the Baliku Dive Resort for a few days as a stopover on our way to visit family in Australia. It's a bit of a drive away from the airport, but worth the extra driving. Amed is a stunning place and the Baliku was a fantastic place to stay and explore. The restaurant was great (my son became obsessed with the beef rendang, and my daughter is still jonesing for the mango lassis) - there are also some great warungs nearby for lovely local food. The location is brilliant - seconds away from the Japanese shipwreck which offers some of the best snorkeling in Bali, and with stunning views over Lombok, which was particularly great, as I was up at dawn with jetlag, and watching the sunrise was something I'll never forget. The rooms were large and comfortable, the infinity pool looking over the sea is gorgeous too, and the staff were delightful. A massive recommendation for a very affordable and still luxurious and gorgeous place. A great place to stay for a scuba diving tester (which we did), snorkelling on the coral, or for more established divers. Definitely recommend breaking up the journey back to the airport (Tirta Ganga is a great stop-off on the way) and making sure you allow plenty of time for the airport run to allow for...

This was our third visit to Baliku and it just let us down on this trip.|Day one, they forgot to pick us up at our hotel in Tuban after we had pre-booked our transfer. Several telephone calls and WhatsApp messages with us threatening to cancel our stay finally had a driver turn up.|Got there very late in the day to a room right up top, as usual a very nice room. |After dinner and getting to our room we were met with staff sitting outside their room talking and smoking, they must have been staying in the room near us.|Day two started seeing power issues at the resort, no power to the rooms many times during the day and into the night.|Subsequently trying to sleep with door open, no windows in the room, so no cross breeze. Eventually falling sleep even tho it was incredibly hot and muggy, only to be woken by resort staff outside our room talking in full voice all arguing about what the electric problem was, some shouting from me convinced them to be quiet.|Day three still power issues.|We cut our 5 nights down to two nights and left, will I come back to Amed and Baliku, no.|Staff were accommodating, food was good but that end of Amed is not the same after Covid, lots of business’s have...