subject to change without prior notice, at the discretion of cruise director and captain
Day 1: Arrive to the ILIKE at Sorong port.
Day 2: Misool Daram Islands
Day 3: Misool Fiabacet/ Boo Island
Day 4: Penemu Island
Day 5: Kawe Island
Day 6: Yangeffo Island
Day 7: Dampier Strait
Day 8: Disembark in Sorong Port
Raja Ampat refers to an archipelago with more than 1500 islands with the four main islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool and is part of the Coral Triangle making it one of the richest bio diversity of the world.
Because his strategic location on the western Pacific Ocean, currents troughflows arriving to the archipelago from very deep water to shallow water, making stratospheric numbers more that 500 different species of corals in that area, ten times more than the Caribbean.
Raja Ampat translates from the Indonesian language to Four Kings.
Misool, the most southern island, has an abundance of marine life, a variety of underwater seamounts, smaller pinnacles, coral walls and coral gardens, covered in giant sea fans, soft corals in all colours, massive table corals and countless fish. This is a great place to find the elusive epaulette shark, or walking shark. It is a nocturnal
shark that sneaks up on its pray by walking closer and closer to it. It is largely a marine park set up by Misool Eco Resort in cooperation with all the local villages, not to fish inside this area. It gets patrolled by the park rangers.
The Dampier Strait, between Waigeo and Batanta, beautiful coral gardens, underwater pinnacles or seamounts, sandy bottom with coral heads and cleaning stations. Here we can find even more nutrients bringing in bigger predators like giant trevallies, yellow fin tuna, rainbow runners and even some sharks like blacktip, grey reef, white tip sharks. It is also one of the few places in the world where we can find two species of Manta rays on the same dive sites.
Night dives are a joy in Northern Raja Ampat.
We offer you the opportunity to visit local villages or there hike up to one of the lookout points.
Raja Ampat translated from the Indonesian language it means Four Kings. it refers to an archipelago with more than 1500 islands with the four main islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool and is part of the Coral Triangle making it one of the richest biodiversity of the world.
We embark in Sorong, Western Papua. The first night we will be traveling all night to arrive in Misool early the next morning. You will be amazed by the diversity you will find here. An abundance of marine life, a variety of underwater seamounts, smaller pinnacles, coral walls, and coral gardens, covered in giant sea fans, soft corals in all colours, massive table corals, and countless fish. This is a great place to find the elusive epaulette shark, or walking shark. This nocturnal shark sneaks up on its prey by ‘walking’ closer and closer to it.
Batanta has fantastic muck dive sites with the most colourful nudibranchs you can imagine, alien-looking critters, and beautiful coral bummies.
The Dampier Strait is where we can find even more nutrients bringing in bigger predators like giant trevallies, yellowfin tuna, rainbow runners, and even some sharks like blacktip, grey reef, white tip sharks. It is also one of the few places in the world where we can find two species of Manta rays on the same dive sites.
