Lembongan Sights: Bridge, Cliffs and Farms
The Lay of the Land
Nusa Lembongan is flat and low, with its highest point only about 50 metres above the sea. There are no mountains here, so the sights are coastal: cliffs and coves on the south-west, seaweed farms in the middle, mangroves in the north and a bridge across to Nusa Ceningan. Crystal Bay, Kelingking and Broken Beach are on Nusa Penida, a separate island across the water.
Devil’s Tear
Devil’s Tear, known locally as Air Mata Iblis, is a rock cove where swells compress into a sea cave and shoot spray up the cliff. It is best at mid to high tide, a few minutes’ walk north of Dream Beach, and open all day. A small ticket may be charged, so check on arrival.
Treat it as a lookout only. Several visitors have died here since 2015, swept off the rocks or killed in falls. Guardrails went up in October 2019 and rope barriers stand now, but no lifeguard is posted. Stay behind the barriers, never step on wet rock, and keep children by the hand. Do not swim, climb or jump.
Dream Beach
Dream Beach is a 115 m crescent of white sand beneath cliffs on the south-west coast. Walk down for the view and the sun. The water is open Indian Ocean, rips can be fierce, and strong swimmers only should ever consider it. Dream Beach Kubu is a small hotel on the site.
Sandy Bay
Sandy Bay, also called Sunset Beach, is a white-sand cove with the Sandy Bay Beach Club, open daily from about 07:00 to 23:00. A cave on the east side floods at high tide, so watch the water. Sunsets face the open ocean here.
Gala-Gala Underground House
In Lembongan Village, Made (Mangku) Byasa, a farmer, dancer and shadow-puppet master, hand-dug this home between 1961 and 1976. It covers about 500 square metres with seven openings and a maze of passages that make it easy to get lost. The adult ticket is about IDR 50,000 and the doors open around 09:00 until 17:00 or 18:00. It is a twentieth-century dwelling, not an ancient cave.
Yellow Bridge and the Seaweed Farms
The Yellow Bridge, or Jembatan Kuning, is 140 m long and 1.8 m wide and connects Lembongan with Nusa Ceningan. It is free and open to pedestrians, bicycles and motorbikes. An earlier bridge collapsed one Sunday evening in October 2016 during a religious procession, killing at least eight people, and the new bridge was opened on 25 February 2017. Beneath it and south of Lembongan Village, seaweed farming, which began in the mid-1980s, is still visible as drying racks and farm plots.
Panorama Point and Pura Puncak Sari
Panorama Point and Pura Puncak Sari, the largest Hindu temple on the island, sit on the hill. Wear a sarong and sash inside the temple, and do not step on the small offerings on the ground.
Mount Agung
On clear mornings Mount Agung, about 3,000 m high, can be seen across the Badung Strait to the north-north-east.
Blue Lagoon on Ceningan
The Blue Lagoon is a free, unfenced cliff cove about 70 to 90 minutes’ walk from Lembongan Village over the Yellow Bridge. Look from the path rather than the edge, and do not fly drones there.
Read more: self-guided walks on Lembongan links these sights on foot.
For the history of the bridge, see this Coconuts Bali report , and for the cliff guardrails see Coconuts on Devil’s Tear . Island tours are on GetYourGuide .