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8 days Raja Ampat diving
This arrangement takes you to one of the most beautiful dive sites in the world: Raja Ampat.
The boat picks you up at Sorong, Papua. You stay 7 days at the (also) very beautiful Papua Explorers dive resort in a cottage above the sea.
You dive every day and there is a wide range of possible (optional) excursions to, for example, the birds of Paradise, waterfalls or dragons.
The boat picks you up at Sorong, Papua. You stay 7 days at the (also) very beautiful Papua Explorers dive resort in a cottage above the sea.
You dive every day and there is a wide range of possible (optional) excursions to, for example, the birds of Paradise, waterfalls or dragons.
Target prices
Target price per diver based on 2 persons per room: € 2.350
per 1-10-2023: € 2.985
Target price per non diver based on 2 persons per room: € 1.650
per 1-10-2023: € 2.215
per 1-10-2023: € 2.985
Target price per non diver based on 2 persons per room: € 1.650
per 1-10-2023: € 2.215
Included:
•Breakfast, lunch and dinner
•Snacks, water, coffee and tea
•Snorkelling at the resort
•Boat transfers Sorong-resort-Sorong on scheduled transfer days Sunday and Wednesday
•If diving arrangement included:
•3 boat dives (air/nitrox) per day and 1 dive at the house reef
Not included:
•Intercontinental and domestic flights
•Entrance fee IDR 1.000.000 (€ 70)
•Other drinks
•Excursions
•Rental diving equipment
•Tips and personal expenses
•Travel and cancellation insurances
•Booking fee € 27,50
•contribution Calamiteitenfonds €5 per booking
•SGR contribution € 5 per person
•CO2 compensation € 22 per person
•Breakfast, lunch and dinner
•Snacks, water, coffee and tea
•Snorkelling at the resort
•Boat transfers Sorong-resort-Sorong on scheduled transfer days Sunday and Wednesday
•If diving arrangement included:
•3 boat dives (air/nitrox) per day and 1 dive at the house reef
Not included:
•Intercontinental and domestic flights
•Entrance fee IDR 1.000.000 (€ 70)
•Other drinks
•Excursions
•Rental diving equipment
•Tips and personal expenses
•Travel and cancellation insurances
•Booking fee € 27,50
•contribution Calamiteitenfonds €5 per booking
•SGR contribution € 5 per person
•CO2 compensation € 22 per person
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Day 1 From Sorong to Raja Ampat
You will be picked up around half past ten in the morning at your hotel or at the airport. The speedboat takes you at 12:00 in about 3 hours to the resort.
There you will be welcomed with a welcome drink and then you can do your first dive if you wish.
Diving package Papua Explorers
The diving package consists of 15 dives, instructor and boat included.
Diving equipment is not included (€ 45 per day or € 200 per week)
Day 2 to 7 (incuded) Diving at Raja Ampat
These days you can dive and snorkel at will in the most beautiful area of Indonesia.
Between November and March a diving- or a snorkelling trip at Manta Sandy is a must! But don’t forget to admire the seahorses, wobbegong sharks, barracudas and other wonderful fish above the marvellous healthy coral as well.
Besides diving and snorkelling you can book excursions to the birds of paradise or a traditional village on the spot. Or just chill out on the beach…
Day 7 Back to Sorong
One of the most beautiful experiences comes abruptly to an end when at 6 AM the speedboat sails back to civilization.
You’ve plenty of time to catch your flight. Your driver is waiting for you at the harbour to take you to the airport.
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Papua Explorers dive resort - Raja Ampat
The Papua Explorers dive resort is located on the south side of the island of Pulau Gam. The resort mainly accommodates divers, but also non-divers will enjoy themselves here with snorkelling, canoeing, birding or just relaxing. The 12 spacious (72 m2) bungalows are built above the water and have a large veranda, shower, toilet, mosquito net and fan. From the veranda you have a beautiful view over the sea. Within walking distance is a lake where you can spot the red birds of paradise. The resort also organises various excursions. meer info more info Informations supplémentaires
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Raja Ampat
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Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat is an archipelago in West Papua (former Irian Jaya) and consists of 610, mostly uninhabited islands. The four largest islands are Waigeo in the north, Salawati (southwest of Sorong), Batanta (north of Salawati) and Misool in the southwest. The name Raja Ampat is also based on these four islands and literally translated means "the four kings".Raja Ampat is a relatively unknown area in Indonesia, but this destination is well known among divers. This is due to the wide range of various fish species and fantastic coral reefs, varying from hard to soft coral. But the islands themselves are also impressive. The Raja Ampat Islands have quiet lagoons with crystal white sand and water that varies from bright green to bright blue.
Diving is especially popular in the Dampier Strait. Here you will find numerous dive spots with an incredible amount of coral and fish. Cape Kri, Blue Magic and Manta Point are real eye-catchers.
Misool is also loved for its wide variety of fish and coral.
Raja Ampat is open all year round, but from mid-July to mid-September you are more likely to experience rain and high waves. Misool is closed between mid-June and mid-September.
Raja Ampat has dozens of dive resorts and homestays. The homestays often use local diving schools, such as the Arborek dive shop. The more luxurious diving resorts offer not only more comfort, but also more safety. Sorido Bay resort, Raja Ampat Biodiversity and Papua Explorers are our favorites in the Dampier Strait, Papua Paradise Eco resort off Batanta Island. The Scuba Republic is an excellent middle class resort.
A fast public ferry runs twice a day between Sorong and Waisai on Waigeo Island. Waigeo also has an airport with a daily flight to Sorong.
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Liveaboards
Liveaboards usually offer weeklong dive cruises in northern Raja Ampat (Dampier Strait and the northern Wajag karst islands. Longer, often 10-day trips also cover the southern part around Misool. Most liveaboards operate Raja Ampat cruises between September and March April, then dock and sail in the waters around Komodo for the summer season.Video Raja Ampat snorkel cruise
Dive spots north Raja Ampat
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Divie spots North Raja Ampat
These days you can dive and snorkel at will in the most beautiful area of Indonesia.Between November and March a diving- or a snorkelling trip at Manta Sandy is a must! But don’t forget to admire the seahorses, wobbegong sharks, barracudas and other wonderful fish above the marvellous healthy coral as well.
Besides diving and snorkelling you can book excursions to the birds of paradise or a traditional village on the spot. Or just chill out on the beach…
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Cape Kri
One of the favorite dives, Cape Kri is Sordio Bay’s house reef and less than 3 minute by boat from Kri Eco Resort. This is the dive site that put Raja Ampat on the map when Dr Gerry Allen smashed his record for total number of fish species on a single tank dive: 374 different species!The world-record holding Cape Kri, with a record count of 374 different species in one dive counted by Dr. G. Allen, is just a 1 minute boat ride from our jetty. At the Northeast point of Kri island the currents sweep into a channel between Kri and the small island of Koh. At this point beneath waters churning in the current, huge schools of Big-eye trevallies, Barracudas and Snappers can be seen hanging over the drop-off. At the base of the reef at 38 meters an ancient snagged anchor rests next to a bommie with a dense school of Banded sweetlips. A large shallow coral garden crowns the reef top with blacktip reef sharks patrolling amongst the overlapping maze of hard corals with feeding hawksbill turtles. Car-sized Queensland groupers down to the diminutive ever-present pygmy seahorse can be seen on this phenomenal and always-surprising dive site! Dawn and dusk are feeding time so divers can experience this site at its awe-inspiring best.
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Blue magic
Only 15 minutes from Kri Island, this small pinnacle has almost everythingFrom Wobbegong sharks to tiny 2cm Denise Pygmy seahorses. The reef top is covered in hard coral with some big coral heads and some tabling Acropora corals well over 3 metres across. There is a resident school of Big eye Trevallies and many large Barracuda. Green Turtles can be found here as well as Black Tips, White Tips and the occasional Grey Reef Sharks. If you are very lucky even a Giant Manta Ray. The magnificent dive ends with a blue water safety stop drifting over and away from the reef.
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Sardines
Only 10 mins from Kri Island, this submerged reef with a reef top at 5 metres, contains a very high biomass, one of the highest in Raja Ampat.Sardines reef is quite simply one of the best reef dives in the world, where divers witness the phenomenal diversity of Raja Ampat at full force. Where the current strikes this offshore reef and splits, a dazzling array of fish congregate, audibly swarming fusiliers spin above, pursued by huge giant trevallies, packs of Bluefin jacks and huge Spanish mackerels. Batfish gather in the hundreds, while multitudes of schooling bannerfish feed in the current. Grey reef sharks, blacktips and whitetips can also be seen along with the wobbegong waiting in ambush on the sea floor. Coral bommies dot the slope covered with many colourful species of dendronephya soft corals and up to three separate species of Pygmy seahorses can be found amongst them. On the current-swept reef top a resident school of thirty massive bumphead parrotfish crunch on the coral, keeping the divers company on a safety stop who hang from their reef-hooks like kites in the wind. Upon surfacing, many divers comment that this is the best dive they have ever done!! Photographers love this dive site and have to return to change from wide angle to macro!
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Manta Sandy
Only 25 mins from Kri Island, this sandy slope is famous for its Manta Rays. It is a cleaning station where they come in to get cleaned.If the many reefs are not enough this area also boasts some of the best manta diving in the world! There are two main manta sites just half an hour away. One, Manta Sandy, is a cleaning station where up to 10 mantas can be seen vying for a position above the two rocks where wrasses clean these giants. We get enormous 4 meter wide black mantas, looking like a negative photographic image, their gills are highlighted in white, along with the other more common white-bellied variety. Another site nearby, Manta Slope, mantas circle above in the sun while divers hook onto the reef while the current arcs overhead and down the steep slope below. Divers can be caught unaware while giant demonic-looking black mantas cruise by behind them. This trip is out of our 10km range, but is offered once a week without any fuel surcharges!
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The Passage
As seen in many articles, including recently by David Doubilet in the Sept 2007 National Geographic, the passage is a completely unique dive site. The narrow canyon 40 minutes away between Gam and Waigeo can be described as river flowing between the two Islands, but also a marine environment, a haven of peculiar and unique microhabitats.This is a place where experienced divers and photographers enjoy the utterly different experience of diving in this truly one-of-a-kind location. Above water the sheer limestone cliffs make this a place where the sightseeing above water is also excessively beautiful. Guests combine this trip visiting the labyrinthine Hidden Bay, a maze of towering islets, and Kabui Bay where literally hundreds of mushroom islands create staggering scenery. This trip is out of our 10km range, but is offered once a week without any fuel surcharges!
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