Inside Goa Giri Putri, the cave temple at Karang Sari on Nusa Penida

Photo: Sasuke shinozawa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Karang Sari (Karangsari)

Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia

  • Beginner
  • Mild current

Karang Sari is a beginner dive site in Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia. Dives run from 5 to 40 m, with mild current. Marine life here includes mola-mola, nudibranch and moray eel. 12 dive shops on Scubalo run trips here.

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Conditions at Karang Sari

Max depth
40 m
Depth range
5–40 m
Current
Mild
Level
Beginner
Depth profile: dives from 5 m to 40 m.

Safety

Current
Usually mild and more sheltered than other east coast sites, but it can vary.

About Karang Sari

Karang Sari is a sheltered east coast dive on Nusa Penida, starting in front of the Goa Giri Putri cave temple. A coral plateau gives way to slopes and walls, with juvenile reef sharks, morays, octopus and frogfish.

Karang Sari is on Nusa Penida's east coast, off Karang Sari village, and Scuba Junkie starts the dive in front of the entrance to Goa Giri Putri, the village's cave temple.

A broad coral plateau, shallow to about 10 m, drops into slopes and walls with hard and soft corals, sandy ledges and big bommies. The stepped reef is good for macro: morays, octopus, anemones, nudibranchs and frogfish.

Juvenile whitetip reef sharks rest under the bommies by day, and tuna and eagle rays pass in the blue. It is more sheltered than most east coast drifts, so the current is usually mild, though it can change.

When to dive Karang Sari

Season

Year round
Dived when conditions allow on the east coast.

Marine life at Karang Sari

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Type of diving

Location

Questions about Karang Sari

Where is Karang Sari?

On Nusa Penida's east coast. The dive starts in front of Goa Giri Putri, the cave temple in Karang Sari village.

Is Karang Sari a hard dive?

Not usually. It is more sheltered than other east coast sites, so the current is mostly mild.

What can you see at Karang Sari?

Juvenile whitetip reef sharks under the bommies, morays, octopus, nudibranchs and frogfish, with tuna and eagle rays in the blue.

How deep is Karang Sari?

From a plateau at 5 to 10 m down to about 40 m.

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