Wildlife in Bali Barat National Park and How to Get There

Other wildlife

There is fabulous snorkeling and diving off the coast of the national park and from nearly pulau Menjangan. Hundreds of species of coral and a good variety of reef fish.

Getting there and around

The park is 3 hrs by road from Denpasar and 2,5 hrs from Levina. A charter from kuta, Ubud or Levina to the park will cost IDR 6,000. There are numerous buses from Levina and Ubung bus station, Denpasar, to Gilimanuk, the ferry head on Bali for east Java.

Bemo and horse-drawn carts ply the 1 km between Gilimanuk bus terminal and the harbour (IDR 2,000/4,000). There are plenty of public minibuses or ojek to ferry you along the road to the birding sites at Sumber Klampok, Labuhan lalang

Bali Barat National Park Bird Key Species

Key species

Lesser adjutant, Great-billed Heron, Malaysian Plover, Java sparrow, Black-winged Starling, White-shouldered Triller. During the migration season shorebirds such as oriental Plover and Occasionally Great Knot; thousands of honey-buzzards and sparrow-hawks cross from East java in the first two weeks of October.

taken from: Birding Bali. Periplus Publishing. Singapore