Places to see in Bali

Popular sunset beach at the Seminyak/Legian border with beach volleyball courts.

Small steep-sand beach under the cliffs with a heavy shorebreak, a clifftop path away from Devil's Tear.

Wide white-sand beach with a punchy beach break, one of the Bukit's more accessible beaches.

Rooms of painted 3D backdrops built to be photographed from a marked spot. Indoors, so it works in the rain.

Consistent reef break popular with intermediate surfers, warungs right on the sand.

Museum of Balinese plant use — medicine, ritual, building, food — inside the Bali Botanic Garden at Candikuning, whose 150 hectares of highland planting is the walk it sits in.

Restaurant built out over Lake Batur at Kedisan, eaten at water level looking back up at the caldera wall rather than down from it.

Beachfront café and co-working spot at Sanur's southern end — bowls, coffee, and a long stretch of quiet sand.

10th-century royal memorial candi carved directly into a river-valley cliff face, reached by 300+ steps.

Beachfront seafood at Pererenan, tables on the sand and a Greek lean to the menu.

Modern Indonesian cooking in a colonial-style house on Jalan Sriwedari — the easier, walk-in half of the same kitchen lineage as Locavore.

Restaurant on the ridge above the Campuhan valley, with a long view across it. Best an hour before sunset.

A small WWII-era wreck lying in shallow water off Banyuning, close enough to shore to reach on a snorkel.

Open-sided joglo pavilion set among the rice terraces, the closest thing Sidemen has to a destination restaurant.

Lembongan's main village beach, facing Bali across the strait — where the fast boats land.

Dramatic T-Rex-shaped cliff overlooking a hidden white-sand cove — Nusa Penida's most photographed view.

Ridge lookout above Amed built for the view of Mount Agung, clearest in the hour after sunrise before cloud closes in.

Serene crater lake ringed by old-growth forest, canoe trips available from the lakeside village.

French kitchen in Amed — fish, pasta and crêpes, an odd but long-standing fixture on this stretch of coast.

The mangrove channels at the island's northern tip, paddled by kayak or toured by outrigger.

German kitchen on Jalan Legian serving around the clock, with its own beers brewed on Bali. A Kuta fixture for decades.

Restaurant and bar on the cliff road near the temple, looking down the coast — the closest proper dinner to the kecak performance.

Turquoise-water beach below towering limestone cliffs, road cut directly into the rock face.

Plant-based kitchen in a bamboo pavilion with its own permaculture garden, west of the centre in Sayan.

Rim restaurant looking straight across at Gunung Batur, on the road most sunrise tours come back down.

Small cove under the cliffs at the southern end of Nusa Dua, reached by a long stair down from the resort above.

Long-running beachfront surf bar and social hub across from Batu Bolong break.

Small cliffside waterfall reached via a dramatic 450-step staircase carved into the coastal rock.

Quieter black-sand beach west of central Canggu, popular for sunset without the crowds.

Jungle sanctuary of ancient banyan trees, stone temples, and several hundred long-tailed macaques.