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Best Dive Sites in Halmahera: Wrecks, the Widi Reserve and the Walking Sharks of North Maluku (2026)

Best Dive Sites in Halmahera: Wrecks, the Widi Reserve and the Walking Sharks of North Maluku (2026)

Halmahera is the K-shaped main island of North Maluku and one of the very few Indonesian destinations where you can plausibly tick off four genuinely distinct diving experiences in a single week.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Misool Diving: A Guide to Southern Raja Ampat's Wildest Region (2026)

Misool Diving: A Guide to Southern Raja Ampat's Wildest Region (2026)

Misool sits at the southern end of Raja Ampat, two and a half hours by speedboat from Sorong, and rewards the trip with the highest soft-coral coverage in the Coral Triangle, the most reliable manta cleaning station in southern Raja Ampat (Magic Mountain), and the global hotspot for tasselled wobbegong sharks.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Best Dive Sites in the Banda Sea: From Sea Snake Aggregations to Volcanic Walls (2026)

Best Dive Sites in the Banda Sea: From Sea Snake Aggregations to Volcanic Walls (2026)

The Banda Sea is the dive region in Indonesia that most divers visit last and remember longest.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Luxury Liveaboard Indonesia: What Actually Defines a Luxury Yacht Experience (2026)

Luxury Liveaboard Indonesia: What Actually Defines a Luxury Yacht Experience (2026)

The phrase 'luxury liveaboard' gets used loosely in Indonesia. From inside the industry, the meaningful luxury indicators are mostly invisible from the photos: crew-to-guest ratio, dive-deck design, the chef's range, the fleet's seasonal cruising plan. This guide is the operator's-side answer to that gap.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Macro Diving Indonesia: A Guide to Critters, Sites and Best Months (2026)

Macro Diving Indonesia: A Guide to Critters, Sites and Best Months (2026)

Indonesia is the world's macro capital. Six regions in the country produce the muck and critter diving that the global underwater photography community recognises: Lembeh Strait, Ambon Bay, Bali, Misool, Wakatobi and Bunaken.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Raja Ampat Best Time to Visit: A Month-by-Month Diving and Weather Guide (2026)

Raja Ampat Best Time to Visit: A Month-by-Month Diving and Weather Guide (2026)

Raja Ampat operates a roughly seven-month season from October through April, with the strongest five-month run from November through March.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Indonesia Liveaboard for Non-Divers and Snorkelers: An Operator's Guide to Mixed-Group Trips (2026)

Indonesia Liveaboard for Non-Divers and Snorkelers: An Operator's Guide to Mixed-Group Trips (2026)

Indonesian liveaboards have a marketing problem with non-divers: the photos are 90 per cent underwater and the booking flow looks diver-only.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Solo Liveaboard Diving in Indonesia: An Operator's Guide to Going Alone (2026)

Solo Liveaboard Diving in Indonesia: An Operator's Guide to Going Alone (2026)

On a typical seven-night Indonesian liveaboard, between a quarter and a third of the divers booked are travelling solo.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi
Black Water Diving in Indonesia: An Operator's Guide to the Pelagic Larval Drift (2026)

Black Water Diving in Indonesia: An Operator's Guide to the Pelagic Larval Drift (2026)

An operator's complete 2026 guide to black water diving in Indonesia. Black water diving drops you into the largest animal migration on the planet, the nightly vertical migration of larval cephalopods, larval fish, and pelagic invertebrates from the deep scattering layer to the surface.

Mika Takahashi
Mika Takahashi