Mushroom Bay Beach
Sheltered, cliff-flanked cove of calm turquoise water and white sand, popular for swimming and snorkeling.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mushroom Bay Beach on Nusa Lembongan opens with the mystery of how the cove got its name, an origin so lost that even the boat captains and lifelong fishermen here can't explain it. It shifts to a quieter story: how island families spent decades farming seaweed on ropes strung across these shallow waters, wading out at low tide to tend rows of it the way a farmer tends a field. That work nearly vanished as tourism took over the coastline.
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