Kelingking at First Light

How booking works

Choose your date and send your details. Nothing is charged.
We check boats, guides and the date, and confirm within a day.
Pay by secure link once you are confirmed. Then pack.

5 hoursGuide language(s): English

Active

Steep steps or long hours in the water. A good level of fitness helps.

Description

Most people see Kelingking between ten and three, when the day boats from Bali have landed and the viewpoint is several people deep. Stay on the island and you can be at the rail before six, with the headland lit from the side and a handful of others sharing the view.

The morning

Your guide and driver collect you from your villa in the dark. At the top you have the viewpoint while the light comes up and the water below turns from grey to blue.

The descent is optional, and it is serious. The path runs down the spine of the headland: steps, bamboo rails and bare rock, steep enough that most fit adults take 30 to 45 minutes down and longer back up. Your guide knows which rails are loose and which steps move. After rain the path is slippery, and on those mornings we stay at the top.

At the bottom the beach is yours for a while. We keep our feet on the sand: the shore break is heavy and there is a strong rip, and swimmers have drowned here.

Breakfast follows, and you are back at your villa as the traffic from the first boats reaches the viewpoint.

Before you book

The descent suits people with steady knees and no fear of drops. Staying at the top loses nothing of the view.
Pick-up times assume a villa on the west or north coast. From the east coast it is about 40 minutes earlier.
Sunrise on Nusa Penida falls between 06:00 and 06:40 through the year. We set the pick-up time for your dates.