Macro season
Tulamben's muck comes alive. Slightly less visibility, far more rare critters — this is the window macro photographers pick on purpose.
Best fit The Circuit, 10 or 14 days
The quietest months. Easiest to get the dates you want.
Three safaris, your dates. Max 8 aquanauts, four makes it run and eight fills it, and the crew, the villas and the dive ops are yours for the whole trip. No competing groups, no crowded boats, no rotation — we only run one group at a time.
Three trips, and that is the whole menu — five days on the east coast, eight in the north with a volcano, or fourteen for the entire island. Same crew the whole way. Book your month early; the year fills 6–12 months out.
| Safari | The Circuit5 days | The North8 days | The Circuit14 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where you dive | Padang Bai, Nusa Penida, Tulamben | Pemuteran, Menjangan, Secret Bay | All four regions, plus the Gili rocks |
| Bases you sleep at | Three | One | Four |
| Guided dives | 8 | 9 | 23 |
| Diving days | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| Villa nights | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| The day out | Nusa Penida by boat | Kawah Ijen volcano, on Java | Nusa Penida, and Menjangan |
| Cultural stops | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| Minimum experience | Open Water · 20 dives | Open Water · 15 dives | Advanced recommended · 30 dives |
| Pick it if you want | A first taste, on one week off | To unpack once, and a volcano | The whole island, nothing skipped |
| Open | See the five-day | See the North | See the fourteen |
Every one of them is max 8 aquanauts, four makes it run and eight fills it, airport to airport, same crew, our own villas. Questions before you book →
Same island every time. What changes is how far round it you go, and how long you have.
Land at DPS. An hour up the coast to the villa in Canggu, welcome dinner, no diving.
Padang Bai, a boat day out to Nusa Penida, and Tulamben. The east coast, no long drives, back at DPS on day five.
You unpack once, in Pemuteran. Menjangan walls, BioRock, Secret Bay muck — and the crossing to Java for Kawah Ijen at dawn.
Everything the short one has, plus the Gili rocks, the Liberty at dawn, Pemuteran and Menjangan. Eleven diving days out of fourteen.
Tulamben's muck comes alive. Slightly less visibility, far more rare critters — this is the window macro photographers pick on purpose.
Best fit The Circuit, 10 or 14 days
The quietest months. Easiest to get the dates you want.
Dry season opens. Pemuteran is at its best — calm seas, almost no current, 30 metre visibility. Kawah Ijen's blue flames are clearest from May.
Best fit The North, or the Circuit at 10+ days
The north is only properly good April to November. This is its window.
The cold thermocline pours through the channel and the mola mola come up from the depths at Crystal Bay. Menjangan's south-east wall gets them from September. The one thing people fly for.
Best fit Either route. The Circuit reaches Crystal Bay, the North reaches Menjangan.
Our busiest window by a distance. Ask early — these months fill first.
Mola linger into October and on the Menjangan wall into November. Seas stay workable in the north through November, then the macro season takes over again.
Best fit The North while it lasts, then the Circuit
The overlap window. Two seasons in one trip if you time it.
We run 16 safaris a year and no more. Most months fill about four months out, and the mola window goes first.
We run 16 safaris a year, no more. That is the whole capacity, so the further ahead you ask, the more of the year is still open.
Pick your own dates, length, and priority sites. Same crew, same villas, same dive ops — totally yours. No surcharge — the min-4 commitment is the only condition.
Use cases: dive club outing · friend group · family · corporate team-building · photo workshop · PADI AOW certification
Plan your private safariMax 3 aquanauts per dive guide, published commitment. Most operators imply 4:1 — Bali Aqua publishes it. We go one better.
We don't combine random solo divers into a group. Bring your squad of 4+ or book a month where 3 are already in. Industry minimum is 2 — we won't run a safari with fewer than 4.
Full kit — BCD, regs, tanks, weights, wetsuit, mask, fins — included. Most operators (Bali Diving Academy etc.) charge IDR 200–250k/day extra.
Every dive-site permit, marine-park fee, village fee, temple entry — covered. Competitors price the safari first then add IDR 100k+ daily on top.
DAN dive insurance covers you for every safari day. Bundled in the package price like Blue Season Bali — most operators leave it to you.
30 % deposit locks your month. 70 % balance 6 weeks before arrival. Free cancellation 8+ weeks out, 50 % refund 4–8 weeks, non-refundable inside 4 weeks.
5 minutes. When you want to go, which safari, how many aquanauts, any special requests. Start here →
WhatsApp, Zoom or a regular call — your pick. We refine dates, villas, group composition, language preference. No sales pressure.
Books the dates, locks the villas, gets the dive ops onto your calendar.
Final balance, full briefing pack — what to bring, what to expect, group WhatsApp introductions.
Your personal driver's at DPS with a sign and a cold drink. We take it from there.