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Angels Canyon

Our local boat dive sites are well worth a visit. Located only a couple of minutes away Angels Canyon and its critters awaiting you. Besides a nice reef you can find  here such amazing creatures as Ghost pipefish, Frogfish, Nudibranchs and many more.  

inspiration for what to do in Bali

If you need some inspiration for what to do in Bali, besides diving of course, here are some photos. Our nice guests Lars and Steffi were already diving with us on Filitheyo and are now in Bali. What else to do on an island full [...]

Finally Nusa Penida again

30.10.2017 After quite some time we managed to go to Nusa Penida, the Manta point in the south and Sental located in the north of the island. Here a little summary of the highlights of these two dives with manta rays, sea snakes, turtles and [...]

Balines wedding ceremony

23.10.2017 After 25 years of marriage our guest Heike and Bernd renewed their vowels in a Balinese wedding ceremony. For their 25th wedding anniversary there were many beautiful dancers, of course a cake and some sparkling wine. The Hindu Priest gave his blessings and offerings [...]

Tropical autumn diving

12.10.2017 As every year, North-western Bali from September until December proves to be a wonderful season for European “autumn divers”: school holidays are over, now the quiet connoisseurs are the turn. You will find a calm sea, almost no current, good visibility under water - [...]

Mount Agung

02.10.2017 The mighty Agung sparks lots of concerns lately. We at the Alam Anda are largely unaffected, so we do not feel great tremors and are also not in the evacuation zone (12 km around the volcano). We do our best to enable our guests [...]

Current situation in Bali

03.09.2017 Due to the risk of eruption of the volcano Gunung Agung in Northeast Bali, the government ordered the extensive evacuation of the area around the volcano in the evening of the 22nd September. Within a radius of 12 km around the crater, the entire [...]

Super repeater

16.09.2017 Sandra and Rene visited us the 4th time in Siddhartha. This time there was even more to celebrate. Both of them completed some round dives with us. Rene 100 dives in Bali - all of them in Siddhartha + his 300th dive Sandra 100 [...]

Alam Anda from above

14.09.2017 In his holidays our guest Daniel let his drone fly and sent some pretty nice impressions from high above. Thank you very much as you don´t see Alam Anda from this perspective every day ;)

Our artificial reef

09.09.2017 Our artificial reef at the Housereef is unbelievable. Many fishes call it their home or passing by to get cleaned. Today we went in to put some corals on our newest project. We hope they will grow fast, like at our older projects. Thanks [...]

September Sightings

03.09.2017 Due to the weather circumstances, which are typical for this time of the year, it is not always easy to enter and exit the water. But to give you a helping hand and more, we have our excellent team to assist you. And your [...]

Manta Manta

01.09.2017 Once again a perfect tour to Manta point/Nusa penida- Many Mantas and happy faces !

Diving in the Secret Bay

22.08.2017 At the North West part of Bali, directly at the strait between Bali and Java, the harbor city Gilimanuk is located. The name of the dive site over there is Secret bay. It takes 40 minutes by car to drive there from our dive [...]

Nitrox course

Good things are worth waiting for. ;-). After much persuasive that Nitrox is really not dangerous, Jutta and Karl have taken the course with us. With a lot of fun they have successfully completed the course! Congratulation

Bali Day

20.08.2017 every Sunday wet celebrate Bali day in Alam Anda. In the afternoon we have a dance lesson in our garden for the children from the village and in the evening there is a performance from the older girls and a typical Indonesian buffet.

Batur Trekking

10.08.2017 Bali is not only great for diving. Our diving instructor Christof had finally some time to conquer Mount Batur, one of the volcanos of Bali. You have to get up in the middle of the night to do so but in the end it [...]

Ghost’s in the Housereef

Once again, its matig time for Ghostpipe fishes. Whether it is a robust or ordinate Ghostpipe you can admire it right now at our Housereef. But also other “ghosts” are found at our project, just like ribbon eal or ghost shrimps.

Neue Mitarbeiterin Dewi

20.07.2017 Luh Putu Suma Dewi, called Dewi by all of us, has been working for us since three months as a trainee after completing an internship at the dive center during her last year at senior high school. In spite of the internship, she was [...]

reef conservation project

02.07.2017 Our first four reef gardeners successfully made their contribution to the rebuilding of the coral project: under our guidance, they were able to fasten a lot of young corals to our new reef constructions. Soon the next "underwater gardener team" starts with the planting [...]

Snorkeling Training

05.07.2017 Our new staff go snorkeling for the first time. A bit scared in the beginning but after the exercise in the pool they was happy about the new experience.

Calendar Campaign

Take your chance and win! This time, we would like to use your underwater photographs to populate our desk calendar.

Ogoh Ogoh´s and Nyepi

The Balinese New Year or Nyepi, is a day of silence here on Bali. There is no plan, car or person going anywhere on that day. Most of the people here do not have a problem with it that day is preceded by a giant [...]

Low season

When there are not many divers around in low seasn we use the time to make everything look nice and shiny again. Clean up dives on the house reef and also the dive maps get a redo same as the walls and beams of the [...]

Gado Gado Cooking Class

If you like Balinese food you can learn with us how to prepare and cook it in the original way. The day starts early (for those who want it only ;) ) with a cup of tea or coffee together before driving to the nice, [...]

Rare guest

Lately our guest were often lucky to see a clam digger at the night dive on the house reef. Many thanks to Dietmar for the photo of this nice specimen and congratulation again for the 200th dive!