Liveaboard Destinations
Explore our collection of expert guides and articles on the Indonesia's best liveaboard destinations. Discover tips, itineraries, and inspiration for your next diving adventure.
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Halmahera Liveaboard: Routes, Season and Trips from Ternate
Halmahera is the Coral Triangle reef system that most dive boats sail straight past. For a few weeks a year, a handful stop.
Komodo Liveaboard Cost 2026: Prices, Fees and a Real Budget
Komodo fares look simple until the park fees, the surcharge, the flight to Labuan Bajo and the crew tip land on top. Here is the whole bill, added up.
Raja Ampat Liveaboard Cost: 2026 Prices, Park Fees and a Real Budget
The fare is only the start. This is what a Raja Ampat liveaboard actually costs once the park fees, surcharges, the flight to Sorong and the crew tip are added in.
Komodo National Park Snorkeling: Manta Point, Pink Beach and the Best Sites by Liveaboard
Reef mantas from the surface, shallow coral gardens and calm bays between the dragon islands. Komodo is one of the few places where snorkellers see nearly as much as the divers.
Best Time to Visit the Banda Sea: Diving Season, Weather and Hammerheads by Month
One short season a year, from September to early November, with October the best month of all. Miss it and the Banda Sea is one of the roughest crossings in Indonesia.
Park Fees, Permits and Visas for an Indonesia Liveaboard (2026)
The park fees are modest. The confusion around them is not. What Komodo, Raja Ampat and Indonesian immigration actually charge a foreign diver in 2026, and when each is paid.
Things to Do in Labuan Bajo Before and After Your Liveaboard
You get two windows in Labuan Bajo, and the one after your cruise is not a free day. What to do with both, and what the eighteen hour rule quietly rules out.
Diving the Cauldron (Shotgun) in Komodo
Komodo’s most talked-about drift, and its most misdescribed. What the Cauldron actually is, zone by zone, and the honest answer on whether you are ready for it.
Cape Kri, Raja Ampat: The World Record Reef
One reef corner in the Dampier Strait, 374 fish species counted on a single dive, and a record that has stood since 2012. What the number really means, and why the tide decides your dive.