BALI STORY 2000   -   Photos from Days 1 to 4 at Nusa Dua.
The sun and the sand are HOT on Benoa beach near the Novotel Hotel.
Sun shades and cold drink stands are plentiful.
View from the fishing village at the end of Tanjung Benoa looking south towards Nusa Dua.
Tourists can take fishing charters from here but I don't think the catches are very notable despite the tempting photos you will be shown.
Looking north from the fishing village towards Benoa Harbour (on the horizon) and, eventually, Sanur.
The shipping port of Benoa is not here on Tanjung Benoa. This causes some confusion to tourists sailing to Lombok from the harbour which is up to an hours drve from here.
The Sheraton Indah beach looking north towards Benoa Harbour and Sanur.
At low tide parts of the reef are exposed. The hotels mark safe areas, where there is no coral which might cut your feet, with floating ropes and bouys.
The groynes and breakwaters are intended to stop the large tides scouring the sand from the beaches.
The little grove of trees on the left is where we had our first massages this year. There is a new hotel being built here and this may displace the local sellers.
Looking south on the Sheraton Indah beach, past the Sheraton Laguna beach, towards the little headland with the old temple and the shallow bay beyond that.
The large tides make it easy for the fishermen to set and retrieve their bamboo traps - but they can only do this once a day as there is only one low tide.
The temple headland, joined to the beach by a very narrow neck of sand.
The temple is very small, possibly the temple for the village that  remains squeezed between the hotels.
The reef runs across this headland towards the left. Further to the right is the shallow bay where the villagers bathe, play with their children and socialise early in the morning.
The shallow bay south of the temple with it's own headland. It is very shallow when the tide is out.
Waves break on the point here and begin their run north up the coast which is to the left.
The morning waves break from the right and run along the reef, behind the temple headland (here), and emerging on the other side to break all the way up to Benoa where they are lost in the deep channel which leads into the port.
Fast fishing jukungs take tourist anglers along the seaward side of this reef in search of Tuna and Mackerel.
The waterfall in the Sheraton pool.
There is a pool-side bar to the left behind the curtain of water.
Brilliant red/orange Bougainvilleae flourish in the grounds of the Sheraton and in most other hotels. In the soft morning light they seem to glow with their own iridescence. 
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