• Selling Last and Love in Bali
• What to Do-Kuta and Seminyak
• The Hidden Life of South Bali
• The Struggle to Save Bali's Turtles
• Jimbaran-The Bukit
• What to Do-Impossible Surf at The Bukit
• Fair Trade in Bali
• Ubud
• A Dance for Every Day
• Balinese Painters
• Ubud-What to do
• A Word of Dance
• East Bali in a Nutshell
• The Hidden life of East Bali
• Klungkung
• Where to Stay-Padang Bay
• Where to Stay Candidasa
• First and Third World in Tenganan
• Amlapura-Tirtagangga
• Tirtagangga and Around
• Amed Beach
• Planning Your Trip: The Best of Bali
• South Bali in a Nutshell

 

Jimbaran – The Bukit

 In 1970, albert Falzon, a young Australian filmmaker, came to Bali make “a really beautiful, positive film about the world “. His movie, The Morning of the earth, made history, using infrared camera and slow­ motion to film impossible surf tricks with “songs of free­dom and peace and waves” as the sole commentary. Besides documenting. the relation between surfers and nature, the film revealed the 10-foot-high barrels lining up alongthe Bukit Peninsula against a dramatic background of cliffs and caves. Soon, surfers started to leave the gen­tle waves of Kuta for the challenging breaks of the Bukit.

Even if you're not a seasoned surfer, you ‘ll enjoy this dry land outcrop, raised 200m above the ocean. Guarding the top end of the peninsula, the temple of Uluwatu adds an aura of spiritually to the heart – stopping cliffs. Covered with a meagre vegetation of bush, cacti, cassava, and kapok trees, the Bukit becomes verdant only from December to March.

It is lined with white – sands beaches, although it is difficult to swim at most of them. Quiet waters can be found in the bay of Jimbaran or on Geger Beach . The peninsula harbours the tourist enclave of Nusa Dua and its flock of five – star hotels. Nature lovers will prefer one of the few hidden gems presented below, with fantastic ocean views where you may spot a dolphin or a whale.