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Discover insights, tips, and stories about liveaboard diving in Indonesia. From Raja Ampat to Komodo and the Banda Sea.
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Manta Alley Komodo: Diving the Manta Channel
A narrow channel on the southern coast of Komodo island holds the biggest manta aggregation in the national park, and almost nobody reaches it.
Castle Rock and Crystal Rock: Diving North Komodo
North Komodo keeps its two best dives within sight of each other. Castle Rock and Crystal Rock are submerged pinnacles in the channel off Gili Lawa Laut, standing in the tidal flow from the Flores Sea, and between them they deliver the most reliable shark and predator action in Indonesia.
Batu Bolong Komodo: Diving Guide (2026)
Batu Bolong is a car-sized rock in the middle of Komodo’s Lintah Strait, and the most celebrated dive site in the national park.
Wayag Raja Ampat: Is It Open in 2026?
Wayag is the seascape that made Raja Ampat famous: a wilderness of jungle-capped karst cones scattered across turquoise lagoons in the far northwest of the archipelago.
Piaynemo Viewpoint Raja Ampat: Complete 2026 Guide
Piaynemo is the hilltop that gave Raja Ampat its most famous photograph: a bay of jungle-covered karst islets standing in turquoise lagoons, taken in from a wooden deck at the top of roughly 300 steps.
Kakaban Jellyfish Lake and Derawan Diving Guide (2026)
Kakaban is an uplifted atoll off East Kalimantan whose 390-hectare brackish lake holds four species of stingless jellyfish, and for two decades it hosted one of Indonesia’s most surreal swims.
Bunaken Diving: Manado and North Sulawesi Guide (2026)
Bunaken National Marine Park put Indonesian diving on the world map in the 1990s and then let newer destinations take the spotlight, while its walls quietly stayed world class.
Jellyfish Lake Raja Ampat: Lenmakana, Misool (2026)
Hidden inside a karst islet in South Misool, Lenmakana is one of a handful of marine lakes on earth where jellyfish have evolved without predators and lost their sting.
Liveaboard WiFi in Indonesia: Signal, Starlink and Working Remotely at Sea (2026)
Almost every guest asks it before booking: what is the WiFi actually like on board? The honest answer varies by route, boat and day.