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Courses and Activities in and around Lovina, North Bali

Balinese Cooking Classes

Taking a cooking class is a fun way to enjoy Bali, experience the culture and people and prepare and eat some wonderful food. Most follow a similar formula. First a trip to the market to buy ingredients, (where you will learn how difficult it is to shop without a good grasp of Indonesian!) and experience local colour. Then cooking for the morning or maybe the rest of the day. Followed by the feast that you have prepared. I cannot recomend this too highly for everyone whove loves good food or just wants to experience the culture and people first hand.

Adjani Balinese Cooking Class (☎ +62 812 36232019 Emai l: Adjani_bali@hotmail.com, Contact person: wayan ariawan)
Balinese cooking for all skill levels. Vegitarian and non-vegitarian, your choice. You can put your own course together if you contact in advance. In 2 - 3 hours you will learn to cook five different dishes. I f you like to cook, or you like Balinese food and want to be able to cook it on your return home, you will love this.

Cooking With Dewi (☎ +62 362 41388)
Enjoy the wonders of Balinese cuisine with a cooking class with Dewi at Rambutan Cottages. An early morning trip to Singaraja markets with Dewi to buy your ingredients. Then after breakfast enjoy your cooking class with Dewi and then savour your dishes for lunch.

Barakuda Restaurant (☎ +62 362 41405 E-mail : restaurant_barakuda@hotmail.com)
Located on Jl. Mawar teaches you to prepare a 4 course meal (75,000-85,000rp) or a 7 course meal (120,000-150,000rp)

Warung Bumbu Pemaron (☎ +62 362 27080) Starts with 8am market trip, followed by class at 9.30am. Lunch can be eaten and students receive a recipe and certificate.

Putu's Home Cooking (Mobile: +62 81 338 563 705 Email: putuscooking@hotmail.com)
Putu's Home Cooking will provide you a taste of Bali, prepared in Putu's family home, using traditional Balinese ingredients such as Lime leaves, Coriander, Lemon Basil, Salam Leaf, Kaffir Lime, Ginger, Cumin, Galangal, Garlic, Candlenut and countless other offerings from the Lovina local market, garden and the sea.

Diving

There are a number of dive operators in Lovina that operate daily dive and snorkeling trips to Menjangan Island, Tulamben and Amed, as well as dives from the local beaches. Some hotels and counters sell unlicensed diving trips that may look official on paper. Do not pay before you have seen the dive centre, and check that you will dive with certified divemasters/instructors.

Bali Spice Dive (☎ +62 362 41305 Email: spicedive@balispicedive.com)

PADI centre based in Lovina offering day trips to all of the dive spots on the northern coast of Bali. This is one of the oldest in the area offering every kind of dive from introductory to advanced. Guides are available in a variety of languages and multi-day discounts are available. Long-established and the largest dive operator in the area. Has a handy booking office in Jl Bina Ria, Kalibukuk, and the main centre is on the beach at Kaliasem close to the Aditya Beach Resort.

Malibu Dive Centre (☎ +62 (0)362 41225 E-mail: malibudivelovina@yahoo.com)

Another of the long established PADI dive operators in Kalibukbuk. Offers a wide range of diving experiences fo all levels. Daily trips to Menjangan, Tulamben and Amed/Cemeluk and safe dives on the shallow Lovina reef. Booking is at Jalan Raya Singaraja-Seririt in the centre of Kalibukbuk.

Lovina Dive Bali - Bali Diving with Bali International Diving Professionals (☎ +62 812 3842415 Email: info@lovinadive.com)
Bali Diving in Lovina - Bali PADI Dive Center serves Scuba Diving with Equipment, Snorkle, Online Education/Learn to Dive, Padi Courses Certificates in Northern Bali. Located in north Bali. Jalan Banyualit, Kalibukuk (just east of Kalibukuk)

Sunrise Dive Centre (☎ +62 362 411820)
Jl Bina Ria, Kalibukuk,

More to come! Watch this space.

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