Sample prices: jet ski for 15 minutes Rp 40,000; parasail for Rp 20,000 per round; water ski for 15 minutes Rp 20,000; windsurf for one hour Rp 25,000; speedboat for two hours with a minimum of two passengers Rp 100,000, Rp 20,000 per hour with a maximum of four; paddle car Rp 20,000 per hour; banana boat for 15 minuted at Rp 20,000 per passengers.

Windsurfing
Along with ordinary surfing, windsurfing is gaining great popularity, see brightly colored sails leap over waves off Kuta, Sanur and Candidasa. July and August are the best time to windsurf. Ideal wind velocity is 15 km/hour, and you can windsurf from Sanur to Serangan Island. Sanur Wind Surfing Centre is offering the best service, charges Rp 25,000 per hour and gives windsurfing lessons for Ro 30,000 and surfing tours around Bali. They can be contacted at 288976.

Swimming
The safest area to swim are the coral lagoons abutting Sanur, Nusa Dua and Candidasa. Kuta and Legian boast excellent bodysurfing with crystal-clear water and top-to-bottom tubes. For your own safety, swim only between the red and yellow flags, never after sunset, and do not swim deeper than your body length.

The undertow off Kuta or Legian is extremely treacherous and unpredictable. One of Bali’s nicest, least known beaches for swimming is at the airport end of Kuta in Legian. Virtually all of the luxury-class hotels, and a growing number of small, moderately prices hotels, have swimming pools, open to nonguests for Rp 2000-3000.