Source : Perth Now news
An Australian woman has died after falling from a cliff at a busy tourist spot in Bali.
The woman died on Saturday morning on Penida Island, 30km east of central Denpasar.
Local media reports the 29-year-old woman was from Queensland, and fell some 80 metres from the cliff at busy Kelingking Beach, in the Klungkung regency (district).
A Klungkung Police spokesman said in a statement about 8am a lifeguard was alerted to a person stranded on the clifftop south of the popular beach.
While the lifeguard was organising extra help, the woman fell.
“When the victim fell to the beach, she was found already deceased,” the police spokesman said.
Police identified her as Brianna Lani Cronin.
Later in hospital, her injuries were found to include a fractured left arm, a leg fracture, a laceration to her right leg and multiple injuries caused by contact with rocks along the cliff, the Bali Times reports.
Images from the scene show dozens of uniformed police, search and rescue crew members and army members beginning to climb up very steep stairs from the beach, and then later carrying a stretcher through the streets, assisted by at least one westerner.
The Bali Times also reports her body was being transferred to a larger hospital across on the north side of Penida Island for the Australian embassy to make arrangements.
Kelingking Beach is a very popular tourist spot, with scores of people hiking up the cliffs each day to take photos, or trekking down to the beach.
In November 2025, the Bali Governor ordered a private company to stop construction on a 182-metre elevator at Kelingking Beach.
The glass elevator was being built to save people from walking down a dirt path to the beach. Images of the scaffolding show the towering structure in stark contrast to the area’s vibrant water, flora and beaches.
The Governor ordered the structure’s demolition due to planning violations, but critics have also said the elevator would have detracted from the area’s natural beauty.
Governor Wayan Koster told media in November that if the elevator was built, it would set a precedent to build a lift on Bali’s tallest peak which is an active volcano.
“If everything becomes like that, made easy, then eventually even climbing Mount Agung will require lifts,” Mr Koster said.
“The original Balinese character will be lost.” The project was slated to include a cafe, restaurant and 400 sqm viewing deck.
The trek down to the beach can take two hours, on a path described as perilous. But swimming at the Kelingking alcove is banned year-round anyway because of dangerous currents.
In January 2023, a Russian tourist was hit by a rogue wave and dislocated her shoulder at the beach.
The next day, a Frenchman was swept out to sea and broke his hip.
An analysis by British money.co.uk found Kelingking Beach is the most-Instagrammed beach in the world per square metre of sand, ahead of second placed Bondi.
