School’s Out – Time for Some Holiday Fun!
Pack your swimming gear we’re off to the beach to swim, slide, surf, parasail, jet ski or scuba dive. Take your pick! For kids who live in Bali, many can swim well by a few as well as some are entering international swimming as well as diving competitions — as well as winning — by age ten or eleven. What else do kids want to do in one of the entire world’s best holiday resorts? Spend some time inside the water, of course. Here we take a quick journey around Bali at some of the water sports’ highlights inside the north, east as well as west of the island.
Bali has several water parks, three located in Kuta; the fabulous Bali Waterbom, the Circus Water Park as well as the completely new Kuta Green Park, the latter two catering mainly for locals.
KUTA’S WATERPARKS
Waterbom
Waterbom can be located near Discovery Mall inside the centre of Kuta’s Jl. Kartika Plaza. the item includes a host of features as well as activities, with 20 slides, swimming pools, kiddies’ pools as well as a lazy river where you float along inside your tube in a large meandering circular flow. The 3.5 hectare park can be well laid out, with many features, like the gazebos, hidden behind shrubbery, generating them more private. There can be a selection of not bad food stalls inside the food court which serve a wide range of dishes as well as snacks — fish, chicken, fruit — at realistic prices (unlike most adventure parks). the item can be very busy at lunch time, however if you have a gazebo your meals will be delivered to you.
completely new to the park in 2010 were three additional water slide features, the aqualoop, better known as “Climax”, the Boomerang as well as the Superbowl. The Boomerang sees riders shoot down the slide as well as up an almost vertical wall before sliding back to the finish. Superbowl sees you in your inflatable slide down a drop, ride a circular wall, as well as as you slide into the middle, you then shoot through a tunnel as well as come out riding the water slide through side to side as you come down fast.
Waterbom can be a great day’s entertainment for all ages. the item’s relatively cheap by western standards as well as if you are in Bali long enough, buy a two day pass as the extra day can be cheaper still. A two day pass can be valid for seven days. Towels, lockers as well as gazebos are available for hire as well as there are plenty of pool chairs to give your feet a rest.
Instead of using cash, you get a cash-band of which has credit on the item as well as straps to your wrist, so no need to carry a bag. Any extra credit gets given back to you at the end of the day.
the item’s best to arrive early (open 9am-6pm every day), so you can get settled in as well as go on the well-known rides before the queues get big around lunchtime. Even when busy though, you don’t have to wait too long.
For those who like a little pampering, you can get a whole body massage — or your feet cleaned of dead skin delivered to you by fish of which nibble at your feet.
Jl. Kartika Plaza
Tel: +62 361 755 676
Fax: +62 361 753 517
E-mail:info@waterbom-bali.com
Prices (2013):
US$ 31 ($50 For 2 days) adult
US$ 19 ($31 For 2 days) child (2–11 years old)
Circus Water Park opened in 2010 as well as features waterslides, pools, water bucket, Phinisi boat as well as restaurant area.
Book early at info@circuswaterpark.com
Jl. Raya Kediri, Kuta
Tel: +62 361 764003.
Prices are for adults US$11 (concession $7.20) as well as $6 ($4) for kids, with family package 2+2 at $33 ($27)
completely new Kuta Green Park
completely new Kuta Green Park, which opened in 2012, sits within a a few hectare park as well as features wave pool, waterslides, flow rides, flying fox as well as bungi trampoline.
Jl. Raya Uluwatu, Pecatu, South Kuta
Tel: +62 361 8484777
All three venues have concession prices for families as well as larger groups as well as there can be plenty of free parking.
Prices: Foreigner Rp.112,000 as well as Rp.72,000 for domestic – so bring along your KTP, Kitas or Indonesian drivers licence to show you live here.
EAST COAST’S WATERSPORTS
Nusa Dua/Tanjung Benoa has become the place in south Bali associated with parasailing as well as jet ski. When the winds are light, the jet skis are out. When the winds are stronger, the energetic parasailers come out in force. Surprisingly few water skiers take to these waters, perhaps because of the cost. Try a banana boat or flying fish for a bit of watery fun.
A recent as well as well-known feature can be the “Walk on the bottom of the sea;” no swimming ability necessary, you just need to be brave enough to put on a divers helmet with full face mask as well as air hose to the surface as well as spend half an hour at shallow depth (max a few metres) enchanted by the wonders of the coral reef, protected through sharks as well as barracuda by a protective net. the item can be an experience of a lifetime for kids (age nine as well as over) who have never seen the delights of the undersea world up close as well as very personal. They come back to the surface with every diver’s question-as well as-answer: “Did you see so-as well as-so… genuinely awesome!”
Bali Seawalker can be located at Puri Santrian Resort, Jl. Danau Tamblingan, Sanur, Denpasar. Prices start through US$ 46 for kids.
North Bali’s Diversity
Whether the item’s diving at Menjangan Island inside the West or taking a dip in Air Sanih’s cool spring pool inside the East, north Bali’s Buleleng district offers a wide range of activities both on as well as off the water.
Located 10km west of Singaraja, Bali’s old capital as well as only large town inside the north, can be Lovina, of which district’s “Tourist Central.”
Lovina’s Watersports
Lovina has every kind of accommodation, through big hotels to budget losmen, a host of restaurants, bars, dive shops, supermarkets, banks as well as transportation to suit your needs as well as your pocket. the item can be particularly favoured by younger tourists who want to get away through teeming south Bali.
Lovina itself has many attractions, through its black chromatic sand beach with its colourful fishermen’s outrigger canoes to the hundreds of dolphins which are seen almost daily a kilometre or so offshore. One of the favourite excursions in Lovina can be going dolphin watching. Fifty to eighty outrigger boats head out every morning around 6am in search of schools of dolphin. Hundreds of dolphin can be seen in an hour or two at of which time of the morning — a real sight to behold. Lovina beach draws the crowds again around 6pm to watch the sunset.
Hot Water Springs as well as Buddhist Monastery at Banjar
Brahma Vihara Arama, built in 1970 in adjoining Tegehe hamlet, can be well-known with Buddhist visitors through all over Asia who come here to worship as well as meditate. the item has several unique Balinese Hindu features including colourful dragons guarding the entrance as well as a wooden drum tower for calling the monks to prayer. Its location on the northern slope of the mountains affords a wonderful view of the north coast. Tel: 0362 92954.
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School’s Out – Time for Some Holiday Fun!
School’s Out – Time for Some Holiday Fun!