Bali rent car and transport services in Denpasar Bali
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Benoa Harbour
A short boat ride from Benoa village at the Tanjung Peninsula's northern tip, or a relatively long trip by road around the cape via Jimbaran, takes you to the other side of Benoa Harbor to Benoa Port on the southern coast of Bali. For hundreds of years, reef-sheltered Labuhan Benoa was the entry point from the sea for all of south Bali.
The accumulation of alluvium has long since rendered much of this natural harbor unnavigable, but a long causeway was built by the Dutch after their 1906 invasion. At the end are fuel tanks, a big wharf, dozens of moored vessels, warehouses, a lighthouse, fisheries, charter-boats offices and a PELNI office.
Reach Benoa from Denpasar's Tegal Station by 'bemo'. If traveling by car, 10 km from Denpasar and just south of Pasanggaran on the main Kuta/Sanur road, turn right and travel down a two-kilometer-long jetty (Jalan Pelabuhan) which stretches toward the northeast corner of the Bukit Peninsula. Large cargo ships, fishing boats, oil tankers, cruise ships, private yachts, and intra-island 'kapal layar' moor in this wide and shallow bay.
The port is also the location of the Bali International Yacht Club, tel. 62361-288391. If you'd like to crew on one of the visiting overseas yachts, hire a 'jukung' to take you around to the different vessels. Ask if there are any openings. Visiting oceangoing yachts usually arrive at this anchorage in the high season. If you get on as crew, give the captain your passport and he'll clear it with the harbormaster when he gets the Sailing Permit (Surat Ijin Belayar).
Just join on one of the yacht and these well-promoted companies will pick you up at your hotel for an early morning departure, arriving in a quiet bay off Nusa Lembongan 2 to 2.5 hours later. These outings are especially popular with surfers who are able to paddle in to-not out to-the reef breaks off Nusa Lembongan. Late that afternoon you sail back to the mainland, enjoying the sunset en route.
