Cliffside dinner
The reason people come. Book the sunset slot, and book it early in the busy months.
Areas · Uluwatu
Cliffside restaurants above the ocean and beach clubs under the stars. The longest journey of the five areas, and the one people repeat.
Uluwatu is Bali’s cliff coast — dinner above the ocean and beach clubs at night — and it is the longest drive of the five areas, on roads worth having a driver for.
Uluwatu sits at the southern tip, and the roads in are narrow and winding. It is not somewhere to learn Bali traffic, particularly on the way back in the dark.
That is why chauffeur-driven is the default here rather than a preference. The drive is genuinely part of the evening, and it is better spent looking out of the window.
What an evening looks like
Fewer venues than the north, and each one is a destination rather than a stop.
The reason people come. Book the sunset slot, and book it early in the busy months.
Open sky, and the sound carries out over the water rather than into a street.
Traditional performance on the cliff at sunset. Spectacular, and very public — worth knowing beforehand.
Mixed, and worth knowing which half you are in.
People come for the place rather than to circulate, so an evening tends to stay in one room.
The cliff runs for miles and the venues sit far apart. Nothing here is a strip.
The cliff performances draw crowds. If the evening needs to be quiet, go after them rather than through them.
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