Nusa Dua

Нуса-Дуа

Nusa Dua is a tourist spot with paved paths, manicured gardens and the Balinese “tourist kit”: a shopping center and restaurant complex designed to cater to five-star resorts. Located at the eastern end of Bali’s Bukit Peninsula. The rest of the world, including the daily life of Balinese, is not allowed here. While Sanur at low tide is too shallow to swim, the hotels in Nusa Dua have large pools. There is little traffic and noise in this fenced-off area, and no pesky vendors.

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General Information

Here like to come to various summits “ministers-capitalists” of the leading countries of the world, and “owners of factories, newspapers, steamships” loved the fields of “Bali Golf and Country Club”, which are considered the best in the world. In the last few years, they have been increasingly displaced by “bad boys” from the Russian officialdom and oil and gas sector with their long-legged girlfriends, as well as descendants of Japanese samurai. For them, voluntary confinement on the territory of their hotel at a price of $200 – 300 per night fits perfectly into the concept of a real vacation.

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Indeed, outside the coastal hotel zone life in Nusa Dua practically stops and is represented only by roadside restaurants on Jl. Pratama Street, among which there are some pretty good ones. Prices are much lower than in the roadside restaurants. Especially for those who want to break out of the golden cage, there is a shopping and entertainment complex “Bali Galleria”, which is located between the hotels “Grand Hyatt” and “Melia Bali”. It is a carefully guarded area of restaurants, art salons and souvenir stores. Various national-style shows and a department store with famous brands also have a presence. Those wishing to get a bird’s eye view of this artificial paradise, drenched in real greenery, are invited in a balloon basket with a brightly colored inscription Nusa Dua, visible from everywhere.

The peculiarity of the local beaches is the absence of waves that interfere with swimming. The sand here is fine and clean, vendors are forbidden to molest vacationers. Locals also do not appear in the area of hotels, guarded by vigilant secu-riti, so things in the deck chairs can be left safely. Only strong tides, exposing for half a day hundreds of meters of the sea floor, upset guests. Fortunately, there is no lack of swimming pools in the hotels. In “Sheraton Laguna” there is a whole cascade of them, and some rooms on the ground floor have direct access to the water. All hotels are immersed in gardens, the best landscape designers from different countries worked on the design of the territory. To appreciate their efforts, it is not necessary to settle right here. The hotel beaches are open to the public and you can simply wander through the fragrant gardens, admiring the riot of colors and floral fragrance. The ponds at the Ayodya Hotel (formerly the Bali Hilton) are home to herons and a variety of colorful fish.

If you turn off the road leading from the center of Nusa Dua to the hotel “Nikko Bali” in the area of the Balinese golf club, you can get to the wonderful beach Geger (Geger). This is where expat Europeans for whom Bali has become a second home congregate. They rent houses and rooms in the nearby kompound (village). The only way to get to the beach is by cab or your own vehicle (entrance fee). The Nikko Hotel, built into the cliff, completes the Nusa Dua area from the south. Japanese investors once paid huge bribes to build a multi-storey hotel in this very spot. The location, design, interiors, furnishings and everything else is fully compliant with all the feng shui requirements. A little further away from Nikko there is a beach with big waves, much loved by surfers.

The gigantomania that has reached Bali has spilled over into the construction of the Garuda-Vishnu-Kenchan CPCI (GWK) west of Nusa Dua, on the road to the Ulu Watu temple. Here the builders of Balinese communalism erected in 2003 the world’s tallest monument to the mythical bird Garuda, perched on the shoulders of the Hindu deity Vishnu. All monuments in Indonesia are made in a special, not similar to the European, manner, and because of this worthy of a visit.

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Often our tourists, who got to Nusa Dua, complain about the high prices in hotel restaurants and high cab costs. Indeed, some isolation of the resort from the center of nightlife in Kuta, traffic jams and its claims to eliteness raise the stakes. The whole question is whether you’re willing to pay for those claims.

Transportation

The easiest way to get to Nusa Dua is by metered cab. A trip from Jimbaran will cost 50,000 Rp, from Kuta 70,000 Rp. There is also a blue-colored Bemo from Denpasar’s Tegal bus station – 15,000 Rp. Bemo to the capital should be caught on the highway By Pass outside the resort village, the route passes the airport, to which will still have to walk 500 m.

Танджунг-Беноа

Running into the bay north of Nusa Dua is the narrow five-kilometer-long peninsula of Tanjung Benoa, which looks like a finger pointing towards the port of Benoa. At its tip, the village of Benoa was once a busy trading port. It is now a recreational destination; there are jet skiing and motorboats, dive centers, bars, and hotels, including the prestigious Conrad Resort.

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Tanjung Benoa (Benoa Village) should not be confused with Benoa Port, which is located on the opposite, northern side of the small bay. It can be reached via the long paved Sanur – Kuta road. The port serves cargo ships, day steamers, cruise ships, motor boats and ferries. There is a toll to drive along the paved road to the pier, but it only makes sense to drive all the way to the end if you are going to Nusa Lembongan or deep sea fishing.

The Bukit Peninsula itself is just south of the airport and is practically a real island. Most of it is an exposed limestone plateau, quite unlike the rest of southern Bali. Its soil, too dry for rice cultivation, is used to grow legumes, cassava and peanuts. The sharp coastline suits risky surfing enthusiasts. In the early 1970s, surfers in search of the right wave discovered several dangerous rifts, hidden caves and golden sand beaches. In those days, there was virtually no infrastructure there. Now Bukit, along with the golf course at Pekatu, is an exclusive destination with luxury villas and hotels.