Raja Ampat Snorkeling Liveaboard, The Last Paradise on Earth

Duration: 7 Days

Overview

Raja Ampat Islands Phinisi Cruise “ Snorkeling & Village Tour – 6 Days-01

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The Raja Ampat, or “Four Kings,” archipelago encompasses more than 9.8 million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s West Papua Province. Located in the Coral Triangle, the heart of the world’s coral reef biodiversity, the seas around Raja Ampat possibly hold the richest variety of species in the world. The area’s massive coral colonies show that its reefs are resistant to threats like coral bleaching and disease —threats that now jeopardize the survival of corals around the world. In addition, Raja Ampat’s strong ocean currents sweep coral larvae across the Indian and Pacific Oceans to replenish other reef ecosystems. Raja Ampat’s coral diversity, resilience to threats, and ability to replenish reefs make it a global priority for marine protection. The Raja Ampat islands are remote and relatively undisturbed by humans.

Highlights

Trekking to Piaynemo will give you a stunning panorama from the top. While for the diving; Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef and Anita’s Garden offer a world class diving with fantastic pretty walls with a lot of critters and well coral covered slopes and a huge amount of fish.
This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. Divers will be entertained with the vibrant of stunning corals with various shapes and colorsa, along with reef sharks, bump-head parrot fish, eagle rays, barracudasa and wobbegong sharks
This area offers some truly unique environments to dive in. The vibrant orange soft corals of Citrus Ridge provide a stunning view to this site, here is also a home of barracudas, bump-head parrot fish and sea snakes. Myhem offers schools of bat fish, surgeon fish and snappers with the occasional Wobbegong sleeping under the coral heads. Gam Ridge is a good place to look for Eagle and Mobula rays. The Mangroves offer some stunning photo opportunities, diving late at around 4 PM when the sun is low will give an amazing light shaft on mangroves.
Manta Sandy and Manta Ridge are the most reliable of Manta spots where you can find that beautiful animal somersaulting through the water while they are cleaned by several species of Wrasse and Butterfly fish. Located in the centre of Raja Ampat, Mansuar supports a diverse reef biota where healthy reefs and a huge amount of fish are found. Here are also possible to see Mantas, Blacktip, Whitetip and Grey Reef sharks with large schools of barracuda, surgeon fish, bump-head parrotfish and many friendly turtles
Waigeo offers you various of fishes and beautiful magnifique coral reefs with black tip & white tip reefsharks, sea dragons, green sea turtles and giant napoleon wrasse are often seen

Day One : Sorong – Check Dive In Batanta

Arrive at the Dominique Edward Osok Airport. Our Dive Master will escort you to the boat and starting the journey. Safety briefing, boat orientation, crew introduction and necessary dive paperwork will be done before we set sail. Check dive will be done in Batanta which presents us a manta, sharks, and school of fish.

Meals : Lunch, Dinner

Activity : Check In Batanta

Day Two : Piaynemo Island

Trekking to Piaynemo will give you a stunning panorama from the top. While for the diving; Melissa’s Garden, Barracuda Reef and Anita’s Garden offer a world class diving with fantastic pretty walls with a lot of critters and well coral covered slopes and a huge amount of fish. Here is also a home of interesting species of clams, sea urchins, sea spiders and crabs.