Diving with Villa-Markisa
The diving center is located right on the beach, about 12-15 meters from the water. For those who want to dive directly from the beach, it is really convenient. The diving center is one of the very few in this part of Bali that has its own boats. You will therefore reach places that others do not. It covers large parts of the northern coast. At Seraya, fantastic critter diving is offered with octopuses, seahorses, crustaceans, echinoderms, strange bottom-dwelling fish, flatworms and nudibranchs of a rarely seen kind and number.
There is also plenty of fish and if you are lucky you can see barracuda, bumphead parrotfish, large sweetlips, stingrays and different types of tuna. If you're really lucky, you can even see mola mola, mobulas or devil rays as well as various reef sharks. Even whale shark may with luck pass here directly outside the resort. Dolphins are plentiful in the area and you can often hear them underwater. There have been guest sightings of them during their dives.
The diving is generally easy and with good help from experienced guides you will experience a lot of fun here. It can sometimes be current but since you usually dive from a boat it doesn't matter and you drift with the current to make it as comfortable as possible.
Lots of diving spots thanks to having boats
Around 50 dive sites are offered here, and depending on your interest, you can experience: wrecks, drop offs, slopes and macro dive sites. Villa Markisa also offers black water diving and has its own artificial reef outside the resort. The reef is at a depth of about 20 meters where the marine life flourishes more and more. The famous Liberty wreck, perhaps Bali's most famous dive site in Tulamben, is only a 15-minute boat ride away. It is one of the regularly visited dive sites provided you wish. Diving by boat means you can get there before the masses of divers enter the water.
Around the island there are various places for diving such as Amed at Candidasa, the Marine National Park at Menjagang and Manta Point at Nusa Penida. There you look for Mola Mola and Manta. Villa Markisa can also arrange day trips to Nusa Penida, but then it is also by car as the distances are great. For those who want to dive with nitrox, that option is also available. This is an ultimate place to spend a few days if you are moving on Indonesia on a liveaboard.
