Nusa Dua is known as an enclave of large international 5-star resorts in south-eastern Bali. It is located 40 kilometres from Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, and administered under Kuta South District. Nusa Dua means second island.
Immediately north of Nusa Dua enclave is the peninsula of Tanjung Benoa that includes less exclusive hotels and Benoa village. A multi-denominational area, it includes a mosque, and Chinese and Hindu temples in close proximity. Much of the beach's sand was eroded away following the mining of the nearby barrier reef for construction materials.
Crystal clear water and stretches of white sandy beach of Nusa Dua makes Nusa Dua a perfect spot for luxurious resorts to which your exhausted bodies, after a Barong performance at Batubulan and a long climb of the steps of the Mother Temple Besakih, will want to rest. Some of the most sumptuous and luxurious hotels in the world find their home in Nusa Dua Bali. You can relax in the Thalasso spa of the Grand Mirage Resort after a day of surfing or diving. Or you can tee off into the sunset, while watching the gentle waves come from the blue sea and caress the banks surrounding the luscious greens. Tranquil swimming pools under the coconut trees seem to be one with the distant blue sea. Art galleries and numerous shops surround them.
Nusa Dua is a planned resort area located on the southeastern end of Bali.
In the early 1980s the Suharto government and its friends in the Indonesian military saw that it would be beneficial to acquire a slice of the rapidly developing tourist industry in Bali. There was also a need, for reasons of national prestige, to have a facility able to host international events at the highest level -- Jakarta, the capital city in Java, was considered too unsightly and also too chaotic to be able to provide adequate security for visiting foreign dignitaries.
The solution was to section off the relatively undeveloped peninsula at the south of Bali and provide it with infrastructure suitable for first-world visitors -- for example, unlike some other parts of Bali, water in Nusa Dua can safely be drunk straight from the tap and electricity supply is constant.
The narrow strip leading to Nusa Dua makes it easy to control access to the development area, where numerous large American-style hotel complexes have been constructed.
The development scheme opened for business in late April 1986 with the arrival of President Ronald Reagan for a regional economic conference.
President Reagan stayed at the first of the hotels to be constructed in the Nusa Dua enclave, the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel architecturally one of the most spectacularly beautiful hotels in the region. The adjacent convention center is a reminder of the original purpose of the Nusa Dua development. Hotels are generally large, high class and have rates that reflect their status.
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