South of Gili Trawangan
Manta Point / Sensei Tree
A wide, gentle slope with mild current — diving at its most relaxed.
South of Gili Trawangan
A wide, gentle slope with mild current — diving at its most relaxed.
Manta Point — the same site as Sensei Tree — is a wide slope on the south side of Gili Trawangan, mixing hard and soft coral over a profile that never gets complicated. Ten metres at the top, twenty-two at the bottom, mild current, a little surge.
That makes it one of the easiest dives in the rotation and one of the nicest to do slowly. Turtles are common, clownfish are everywhere, snapper school over the slope in numbers, and reef sharks rest on the sand at the bottom of it.
It is the site for divers who have just been certified, for a second dive of the day, and for anyone who would rather look at things than work.
What you come for
Manta rays are not resident here. They are seen occasionally, more often in the wet season between December and March, and that is the whole truth of it — the Gilis are not Nusa Penida, and we are not going to sell you a manta.
What the site does deliver every time is calm. Mild current, light surge and a slope you can drift along at your own pace. Booked for what it actually is, Manta Point is as relaxed as diving gets here.
Never promised, never scheduled. Mantas, mola mola and whale sharks are not resident in the Gili Islands — when they turn up it is luck, and we would rather you dived here for the reef.
The same for every site on this list.
Diving works all year here. April to October is the dry season and gives the clearest water, with September, October, May and June the sweet spot; July and August are the busiest. November to March brings plankton and less visibility, and with it a better chance of something big passing through.
Small groups, four divers to a guide, and a crew that picks the site by the conditions rather than the timetable. Message us on WhatsApp and we will tell you what the water is doing today.
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