NUSADUA - Place Interest In Bali

NUSADUA

Nusa Dua and Tanjung Benoa are Bali’s modern tourist resorts — a government-run dreamland of coconut palms, white sand beaches and pristine waters located near the island’s southernmost tip. Geologically, the area is quite different from the rest of Bali, and even from the rest of the Bukit peninsula upon which it rests.

Instead of rice fields or limestone cliffs, there is sandy soil reaching down to a long, sandy beach protected by a reef. Coconut trees are everywhere — Nusa Dua was once a huge coconut plantation. The climate here is also drier than the rest of Bali, freshened by a mild ocean breeze.

Once upon a time, the Balinese giant and master builder Kebo Twa decided that the Tanjung Benoa marshes should be transformed into riceflelds, so he went to the Bukit and picked up two scoops of earth. While shouldering them along the coast, his pole broke, dropping the earth into the sea. Two islets appeared: the “Nusa Dua.”

The marshes were never to become rice- fields; the bay remained a bay with a long cape, Tanjung Benoa, jutting into it. Nevertheless, Kebo Twa, who created the area, is now engaged in a new venture — luxury hotel development.



Making Nusa Dua into a tourist paradise was a consciously implemented government policy, designed with the help of the World Bank. Two main concepts underly the project: to develop an up-market tourist resort, beautiful, secure, easy of access, with the most modern facilities, while keeping the disruptive impact on the local environment as low as possible.