Pulau Menjangan or Deer Island is a 175-hectare sanctuary island, a part of West Bali National Park, off the northwest coast at the western entrance of Teluk Terima. It is received its name from the wild java deer that graze on its open savannahs. The Menjangan Island can be reached by boat from Labuhan Lalang port or from Terima Bay.

Menjangan is one of Bali’s premier scuba diving and snorkeling locales, these reefs are frequented by species of fish of every size, shape and color. Menjangan Island boast of 110 species of reefs and 226 species of reef’s fish and other kind of fish. The scuba diving is excellent: superb unspoiled coral; caves; many tropical fishes, a spectacular drop-off and small shipwreck 600m out. Divers should aware of tiny stinging jellyfish but the painful welt of jellyfish sting will be gone within an hour.

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The West Bali National Park, established in 1941, covers 77,000 hectares of wooded slopes, savannah, rainforest, monsoon forest, mangrove swamp and coastal flats, and is the only remaining natural habitat of the endangered jalak putih, the Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi). It is also home to 200 species of plant, rusa deer, kancil, barking deer, long-tailed macaques, civets, monkeys, wild boars, and the last of the island’s wild banteng from which the deer-like Balinese cattle are descended. It was here that the last known Bali tiger shot and killed in 1937.

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