Fresh yellow tail fishes at fish market in Bali

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Jimbaran Fish Market

Top choice in Bukit Peninsula


A popular morning stop on a Bukit peninsula amble, this fish market is smelly, lively and frenetic – watch where you step. Brightly painted boats bob along the shore while huge cases of everything from small sardines to fearsome langoustines are hawked. The action is fast and furious. Buy your seafood here and have one of the warungs cook it up or, for an even better price, buy direct from the boats between 6am and 7am.

There's also a street vendor selling delicious sugar-cane juice for 10,000Rp.


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