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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Where Is Raja Ampat? Location, Map Context and How Remote It Really Is (2026)
Where Raja Ampat actually is, and why its position matters. The province and administrative geography, the four kings the name refers to, straight-line distances and realistic travel times from Bali, Jakarta, Singapore, Sydney, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, the WIT time zone trap, the five diving zones inside the archipelago, why sitting at the centre of the Coral Triangle produces the richest reef measured anywhere, and an honest account of how remote it feels once you leave Sorong.
Manuk Island: Diving the Banda Sea Snake Island
An uninhabited volcano 122 kilometres from the nearest island, ringed by sea snakes and sitting on the hammerhead migration route. Only a handful of liveaboards go, and the weather decides whether they arrive.
Maumere Diving: Flores Bay and Gateway Guide
Most divers pass through Maumere on the way to Alor or the Banda Sea without ever getting in the water, which wastes a bay once thought the most species-rich anyone had surveyed.
Dampier Strait Diving: Raja Ampat Site Guide
The channel that holds Cape Kri, Blue Magic and Manta Sandy is the richest reef on earth, and the tide decides whether you see it at its best.
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.