How to get to Nusa Penida from Bali: ports, boats and crossing times
The usual route from Bali to Nusa Penida is a fast boat from Sanur, but Kusamba and Padang Bai also serve the island. Crossing times, ports, schedules…
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Snorkeling Boat Catches Fire Near Nusa Penida
A snorkeling boat caught fire in Gamat Bay after a suspected battery-component explosion. Four foreign tourists and a guide escaped into the sea; the…
Bali Police Tighten Boat Checks on Nusa Penida and Lombok Routes
Bali water police tightened monitoring on boat routes to Nusa Penida, Lombok and Gili Trawangan after forecasts of dangerous seas. Departures may be d…
BMKG warns of four-metre waves around Badung Strait
BBMKG Region III Denpasar forecast waves of 2.5 to four metres in four Bali and Lombok strait areas from Oct. 24 to 27, including routes to Nusa Penid…
Klungkung Opens Automated Visitor-Fee Post at Kelingking Beach
Klungkung and PT Ctrip Internasional Indonesia opened a permanent automated retribution post at Kelingking Beach, with three multilingual ticket machi…
Nusa Penida artists perform Barong Ket at Klungkung arts programme
Artists from Nusa Penida performed a Pejukutan Barong Ket at Klungkung’s AKSIKU 2026 arts programme in Semarapura on 22 October, as part of an inter-d…
Nusa Penida Visitor Numbers Fall Below 3,000 a Day
Nusa Penida recorded fewer than 3,000 daily visitors from Oct. 8, down from more than 4,000 earlier in October as low season and fuel shortages affect…
BMKG forecasts partly cloudy Bali weather and 2,5-metre waves
BMKG Denpasar forecast partly cloudy weather across Bali on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, with temperatures up to 34°C and waves reaching 2,5 metres in so…
BMKG Forecasts 3.0-Metre Waves off Southern Bali
BMKG forecast clear to partly cloudy weather across Bali on Oct. 20, with temperatures of 19–34 degrees Celsius. Southern waters could see waves up to…
Swimmer dies after falling into deep sea trough at Nusa Penida’s Atuh Beach
Kazuki Kiyohara, a 22-year-old Japanese man, drowned at Atuh Beach after falling into a deep sea trough. Medical staff later declared him dead.
Nusa Penida Temples Reach Piodalan Peak as Police Monitor Security
The piodalan at Pura Penataran Ped and Pura Ratu Gede in Nusa Penida peaks on Oct. 14, 2026, as Bali police monitor security and worshipper movement.
Free mass Hindu ritual in Klungkung draws hundreds
Klungkung’s government and PHDI held free mass Hindu rituals on 10 October 2026, with hundreds attending and a plan to take a similar programme to Nus…
What Nusa Penida’s rotating Ngusaba Madya Jagat means
Nusa Penida’s Ngusaba Madya Jagat ceremony took place at Pura Batumedau on Sept. 26, 2026. Nyepi Segara followed, closing marine activity for 24 hours…
KMP Nusa Jaya Abadi resumes Nusa Penida service
KMP Nusa Jaya Abadi resumed public service from Nusa Penida on Oct. 5 after repairs to a leaking hull. The ferry is scheduled to sail twice daily.
Why Bali’s Kelingking Glass-Lift Dispute Is Still Unsettled
Bali’s provincial government has appealed a ruling in the Kelingking Beach glass-lift dispute. The official court register lists case 17/G/2026/PTUN.D…
