Bali is tropical and pleasant all year round, with the temperature in November averaging 28°C. There is the occasional rain shower, and the evenings are a few degrees cooler (25°C). Our trip is timed for the mola-mola season whilst avoiding the peak tourist holiday periods.

Amed, our destination in Bali, offers many different experiences: beautiful coral gardens, gentle drift dives, impressive muck diving sites, and coral-encrusted shipwrecks. It is at the southern edge of the Coral Triangle marine conservation area, which stretches from the Philippines to the Solomon Islands. Although covering only 1.6% of the world’s oceans, this area is recognised by the WWF as the world’s centre of marine diversity, hosting over 76% of all coral species, over 3,000 species of fish, six out of seven turtle species, and the highest diversity of coral reef fishes in the world.