Should you be seeking fabulous wall dives, throbbing schools of fish, the captivating colors of diverse reef fish and healthy coral gardens - you can find them in Indonesia.

If you want the world's best “muck” diving - searching for the tiniest & most extravagant of Earth’s creatures  - you can find it in Indonesia. 

If you want a mix of large predators - mantas, sharks, dolphins & whales - calm waters or ripping currents - even a bit of wreck diving . . . you can find it all in Indonesia diving.
 

BALI

Known to many as the cultural capital of Indonesia, Bali is also home to beautiful diving sites which may surprise you.  You'll find some awesome macro diving, wreck diving right off the beach at Tulamben & great pelagic sites.

You will find walls & drop-offs & grottos, wonderful currents with drift dives & gentle coral garden dives. There are white sand bottoms &  black sand bottoms - a fabulous background for the exquisite colors of soft corals, gorgonian fans, sponges & reef fish.  You'll see turtles, barracudas, big-eyed trevally, Mola-Mola in season, eagle & manta rays, sharks & other pelagics, along with all of the reef fish & critters. Land-based diving is the way to go here & our favorite operator is Aqua Marine Diving, who can also arrange land visits.  Contact us for details.

AMBON,  ALOR  &  BANDA SEA

Only recently accessible after years of strife, Ambon is the gateway to some of the world's finest diving - Misool & Raja Ampat in the north and to the Banda Sea & Alor in the south.    Let's start with the south. 

First, in the Ambon region, you're going to find incredible macro diving & muck diving - critters galore . . . rhinopias, pegasus sea moths, countless varieties of frog fish, seahorse, flamboyant cuttlefish, ghost pipe fish and star gazers. 

As to the diving in the Banda Sea and Alor regions - you'll experience vertical walls & drop offs, pristine reef, volcanic vents - and you'll see more critters as well as massive barrel sponges, plenty of pelagics, an immense population of sea snakes - even a wreck dive.   

RAJA AMPAT,  MISOOL  &  TRITON BAY

North of Ambon, we find Raja Ampat, Misool & Triton Bay, which amongst many intrepid divers is the pinnacle of Indonesian diving.  It's the outer limits of diving on our planet, with a vast variety, hard to equal, with plenty of room for exploration & the discovery of new sites.  The bio-diversity is reputed to be the greatest found anywhere. 

You'll have muck dives & drift dives, vertical walls, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand, sea mounts & pinnacles - some mangrove areas with coral reefs just next to them - there are wrecks and there are some dives with NO current at all & some which are really wild rides!  The variety of species, from macro to pelagics, is staggering. You'll find different statistics quoted, but it' safe to say that there are more than 1,000 fish species, over 500 coral species and nearly 700 mollusc species! 

KOMODO NATIONAL PARK

Home to fabulous soft corals & reef fish, plus sharks & mantas enough to make every dive an adventure, in the opinion of many divers Komodo is the pen-ultimate diving experience in Indonesia.

With each dive site in the Komodo National Park, you will experience something different.  The peaceful coral reefs are pristine and attract an incredible variety of splendid reef fish. But there are also dive sites with strong currents, bringing plankton-rich waters and the pelagics which feed on them . . . tuna, jacks, barracudas, rays & sharks. 

There are seamounts, walls, canyons and pinnacles as well as the spectacular coral gardens.  Komodo should be on every diver's list.

NORTH & SOUTH SULAWESI - INCLUDING LEMBEH STRAIT

Host to some of the most fascinating spots in the world for divers, Sulawesi has something for everyone, including non-divers. In the south, you have the renowned Wakatobi Resort, acclaimed for its pristine & protected reefs plus the luxurious Pelagian liveaboard, based at Wakatobi.

In the north, you have 3 areas to choose from:  First, Bunaken National Marine Park & Bangka Island, with their amazing steep coral walls, rich with a diversity of species, its huge sponges and beautiful hard corals, and countless critters.  Next, there's the volcanic Sangihe archipelago, with amazing soft corals and critters + access to pelagics.  And finally, the undisputed critter capital of the world - the Lembeh Straits with its weird & wonderful species: stonefish, sea robins, stargazers, devil fish, weedy scorpion fish, ghost pipefish, the list goes on!

KALIMANTAN / BORNEO

Off the coast of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, lie simply gorgeous islands & diving sites, which offer fabulous marine life variety, ranging from critters to manta rays & even a jellyfish lake! 

Derawan offers walls, fringing reefs & caverns, turtles galore, sharks, barracudas, napoleon wrasses, cuttlefish, jacks, batfish, plus all the colorful reef fish you desire. There is also some awesome critter diving at the pier.

Nabucco, with its currents & drop-offs & channel, is great pelagic diving - reef sharks, leopard sharks, tons of barracudas.

Sangalaki is a site for Manta encounters.  They live in these waters pretty much year-round.  But, you’re also going to be treated to plenty of turtles, luscious reefs in a shallow lagoon, & a vast number of species of hard & soft corals, with their accompanying reef fish.

Listed below, you will find
our favorite liveaboards & resorts operating in each region.

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