Dive Review of Euro Divers/Villa Candi Matahari in
Indonesia/Amed, Bali

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Euro Divers/Villa Candi Matahari: "Healthy Reef", Apr, 2016, by Tracy E. Johnson, CA, US ( Contributor 14 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 8936.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
Overall Rating
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Comments	I would not go to Bali for less than 2 weeks due to the 24 hour travel time to get there and the 2 1/2 hour ride to Amed. We stayed at Villa Candi Matahari a 5 bedroom villa with a staff of 5 plus a driver and a very new van to transport us wherever we wanted to go. I found the best exchange rate for IDR was at the ATM. This villa was incredible. Definitely 5 star. The staff would cook for us or we could go out to many fine restaurants. Each room had on outdoor private shower and very good air-conditioning (I like a cold room). A 1 hour massage next to our infinity pool was $7.50. My son rented a scooter at a very cheap rate to buzz around on. Bring your 1 liter allotment of liquor if you want because its hard to find and expensive. Bintang beer is cheap and plentiful. Roda our dive master was terrific. I would call it organized chaos the way everything always came together. The dive shop took us and the equipment to the dive site and local porters carried our equipment to the beach. Everything was always delivered on time. The women could carry two tanks with BC's at a time. I'm 73 with a torn rotator cuff and Roda was a great help to me on all the diving. The dive shop was a 5 minute walk from our villa. Most diving was from the shore but some drift diving was from a motorized outrigger that carried 2 divers. We put our BC on in the water. Its the warmest (90) that I've ever been in and the reef was incredibly healthy though no big animals in Amed. Lots of nudibranchs, giant clams, anemones with clown fish, and frog fish. We drove 2 hours to dive with Geko Dive in Pedang Bay. We went to the island of Nusa Penida for a dive with Mantas and that was incredible.
Websites	Euro Divers Villa Candi Matahari
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Panama, Bahamas, Hawaii, Fiji, Bora Bora, Curacao, Cayman Brac, Guadaloupe, St. Lucia, Columbus Isle, Matinique, Key West, Easter Island, Roatan
Closest Airport	Denpensar	Getting There	EVA through Taiwan, no problems but I would recommend elite/economy class
Dive Conditions
Weather	dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	89-90°F / 32-32°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	40-90 Ft/ 12-27 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	Dove with dive measter usually 50-100 feet
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Mostly shore diving but sometimes in an outrigger with 2 divers per boat. No facility or room for one so you have to be careful with cameras.

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Dive Review of Euro Divers/Villa Candi Matahari in Indonesia/Amed, Bali

Euro Divers/Villa Candi Matahari: "Healthy Reef", Apr, 2016,

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Dive Review of Euro Divers/Villa Candi Matahari in
Indonesia/Amed, Bali