Broken Beach, known locally as Pasih Uug, is on the west coast of Nusa Penida in Banjar Sumpang, part of Bunga Mekar village. It is not a beach you can use. It is a round bay enclosed by cliffs and joined to the open sea by one tunnel under a natural rock arch, and you look at it from the clifftop path that runs around the rim. Angel’s Billabong is a few minutes away from the same car park, and the two are almost always visited together.
A sea cave whose roof gave way
The name is a description. Pasih Uug means roughly broken beach in Balinese, and the cliff here really is broken: a sea cave collapsed and left an arch and a circular bay linked to the ocean through a tunnel. That tunnel is the only opening between the bay and the sea, which is why there is no way down. Through it you can see a strip of sand inside the bay; nobody reaches it on foot.
From the rim you can watch the swell push in through the tunnel, and the colour of the water shifts through the day. In the rainy season the grass on the clifftops grows thick and green, and the circle stands out sharply against it. Walking the full loop gives you the arch from both sides.
Forty metres down, and no fence in places
The clifftop is about 40 metres above the water, and it is where people get hurt. In November 2022 a domestic visitor from North Sulawesi fell from the cliff while doing somersaults near the edge for photos, and survived with injuries. On 4 March 2023 an Indian visitor asked his driver to take his picture near the edge, slipped and fell. Rescuers had to lower two people down the cliff on ropes to recover his body, an operation that took about two and a half hours, mostly in the dark.
After the 2023 death, a member of the Klungkung council called for safety fences at the clifftop, and the regency’s head of tourism said fences would be added gradually wherever accidents had happened.
The view from the water
Broken Beach and Angel’s Billabong both sit directly above Manta Bay, a snorkelling and dive site, and from the arch you may spot manta rays in the water below if you are lucky. Snorkel boats work Manta Bay just outside the arch, and from the sea you can see the crowds lining the clifftop.
The coast has also become a stage. In May 2026 Broken Beach hosted the opening round of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Along the coast stands the Octopus Queen, a woven bamboo sculpture more than 25 metres tall by the Balinese artist I Ketut Putrayasa, built for a swing park that has not opened. If you fly a drone, do not take it under the arch: it tends to lose signal there, climb to reconnect and hit the rock ceiling.
Getting there by road, or on foot from Crystal Bay
Broken Beach is around 40 minutes by road from Toyapakeh harbour and 20 to 30 minutes from Kelingking Beach, on a road that is paved almost all the way. You park once and walk to both the arch and Angel’s Billabong. A small parking and retribution fee is usually collected on site, and from 1 September 2026 Klungkung regency also charges Rp 25,000 per adult and Rp 15,000 per child at each tourist attraction. The busiest hours are roughly 11am to 3pm, when the day tours from Bali all arrive.
There is also a walking route from Crystal Bay. It takes about two hours: from the left end of Crystal Bay, climb the stairs over the hill and drop to Pandan Beach, then climb again and follow the contour into the next valley. The path is hard to find in places, so wear proper shoes and carry water. For the wider island, see our guide to Nusa Penida, the list of things to do in Nusa Penida and where to stay on Nusa Penida.
