Ubud to Amed

We travelled to Amed by taxi as that’s the way you get around mainly in Bali. It took around 2 hours so this was one of the longer journeys, but we soon arrived at our cheap budget hotel and realised how nice it actually was! One thing that I haven’t mentioned on my blogs is how good George is at choosing cheap places to stay that are actually really nice! £7 a night each for a hotel with a pool … bargain!

We came to Amed for 1 reason and that was to dive at the Liberty Wreck. We booked our diving through a coming called ‘Adventure Divers’. They were probably the best company we have used for diving so far, they were so professional but also so friendly and comforting when you needed them to be. They gave us such an amazing experience so I would highly recommend them.

We spent our first night in Amed having dinner at the hotel as we wanted to have an early night before the diving the following day. The dinner was really good and so cheap, so we were really happy!

We were picked up by Adventure Divers the following day and taken to their office. They had set up all our equipment for us already so all we had to do was fill in a couple of forms, get into our wet suits and get to know our dive master. We travelled to the wreck by van and it was 30 minutes out of Amed to Tulamben. We were surprised as we were told that we wouldn’t be getting on a boat at all to get to the dive site as it was a a shore dive. This was good for me as I tend to get bad sea sickness on the small diving boats.

We arrived at the dive site, were given our briefing and then put our equipment on. We were so surprised as the Liberty Wreck was literally 10m off the beach so we would drift into the water and then we would be able to see it.

I was amazed at how big the wreck was (120m). We actually swam the whole way round the wreck. The coral was so alive and there were so many fish. On our second dive we got to swim through the Liberty Wreck which was an amazing experience. You could even recognise things like the wheel of the ship and the cannons, this was fascinating to see as they had been there for years and not eroded away. The dives at the Liberty Wreck were awesome as they were so historical and dives that we had never experienced anything like before. We even managed to stay in the water for 50 minutes which was our record time yet!

Our third dive was a drift dive off the shore in Amed. On this dive we saw the underwater pyramids, they were filled with live coral and fish. We also got to see turtles on this dive which was really nice! The dive was really good as we drifted the whole way so you didn’t have to fight against the current at all or really kick! It was nice and relaxing and a great way to end the fab day of diving we had just had!

That evening we headed to a restaurant that was recommended to us by the dive people. It was really yummy and only a short walk away from our hotel! We were exhausted from all the diving so got back to the hotel and went straight to sleep. It was an amazing day.

The following day we were leaving again so we packed up our bags and headed to the ferry harbour in Padang Bai. Amed was a great place for diving, it didn’t have much else there apart from this so I wouldn’t recommend going unless you want to dive or free dive. We had so much fun there and loved diving at the USST Liberty Wreck! Next stop … Gili Islands!