Broken Beach

This guide to Broken Beach on Nusa Penida follows the Balinese story of a village that once stood on this spot, where locals say a stranger arrived asking for a stolen animal and planted a stake no one could pull free. It traces the divers who claim to have found stone grinding mortars and clay cooking pots resting on the seabed below, household things unlike anything the ocean makes on its own. Look through the archway at the turquoise pool churning beneath the collapsed limestone rim.