Embark on an extraordinary 9-day, 8-night voyage through the heart of Raja Ampat, one of the most biodiverse marine sanctuaries on Earth. Beginning in Sorong, your journey takes you across world-class dive sites such as the vibrant Candy Store of Daram, the majestic Neptune’s Seafan of Wayilbatan, and the iconic Boo Windows of Misool. Drift through coral gardens teeming with manta rays and reef sharks, swim alongside barracuda tornados at Cape Kri, and capture unforgettable moments at Blue Magic, renowned for its pelagic encounters.
Beyond diving, trek to the heart-shaped Love Lagoon, stroll along Yiliet’s Baby Shark Beach, and snorkel among stingless jellyfish in Farondi’s hidden lake. Immerse yourself in the rich marine life of Arborek Jetty and experience the warmth of local culture during village visits. From pristine reefs to dramatic limestone landscapes, each day reveals a new chapter of adventure, beauty, and discovery. This Raja Ampat expedition promises not just dives, but memories that last a lifetime.
Arriving at Sorong, our representatives will be waiting for your arrival and escort you to the ship for boarding. Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation, and ship orientation will takxe place before departing the Harbour. You will have some time to familiarize yourself with the vessel and make yourself comfortable as we journey to the first dive site, Matan Island. A check dive will commence to make sure you feel comfortable in the water. The underwater coral reefs on Matan Island are beautiful and unspoiled, with clear visibility. Visitors can dive along the coastline, watching many underwater creatures swim by with grace.
Total Dive: 1 check dive
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Daram Island has become a beach gateway in Raja Ampat Regency, along with so many other beaches. The serene nuance is perfect for lying back and relaxing. Candy Store will offer you its colorful coral garden and diverse marine life. You’ll be able to see large schools of fish, including Barracuda, Fusiliers, and Butterflyfish swim the current together. Andiamo is also a pinnacle dive site with many underwater walls and slopes; its cliffs and steep drop-offs mark its beauty among other dive sites. Wait until you see Living Color, which lives up to its name. It is one of the best dive sites with colorful coral reefs dominating its underwater environment.
Total Dive: 4 dives
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Wayilbatan will welcome you in the morning after a good night's rest. The site is interesting, pristine, and untouched. On this site, you will find excellent macro life, including several species of Pygmy Seahorse, Octopus, Nudibranch, and Ghost Pipefish. The Neptune’s Seafan is filled with countless seafans, and you’ll be able to shoot wonderful images of them with clear visibility. Wedding Cake also offers you a beautiful dive with ridge and wall covered with colorful soft corals, swaying with the currents. Four Kings is breathtaking with its steep, rocky outcrops and coral garden. It is home to a large variety of soft corals, sponges, and sea fans, which provide shelter for countless creatures. We will also stop by the beautiful Love Lagoon, trekking up the well-placed stairs to the viewpoint, to take in the stunning view of the heart-shaped lagoon with its karst rocks and blue waters.
Total Dive: 4 dives
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Karang Bayangan goes by many names among divers and the locals. Some might know the site as Magic Mountain, Shadow Reef, or Karang Bayangan. The site is almost like an underwater plateau mountain, filled with so many species such as Barracuda, Fusiliers, Surgeonfish, Manta, and several species of sharks such as White Tip Reef Sharks, Grey Reef Sharks and Raja Ampat walking sharks. Boo Window has quite the reputation as a diving site, being loved by so many divers. Located off the tiny island of Boo, the site provides many of the iconic images of Raja Ampat. It is known for the ‘windows’ or the rounded openings able to fit in several divers at once. You’ll get to see many fish species such as barracuda, batfish, and sharks hiding under table corals. Boo East, the sister site, is known for its vibrant corals and abundant marine life. Not too far from Boo Window, it has colorful reefs and interesting creatures, a great spot for both wide-angle and macro photography. On the other hand, Yiliet Beach offers something even more unique. Known as the “Baby Shark Beach”, you’ll be able to see baby black-tip reef sharks in its shallow waters near its white-sand beach.
Total Dive: 4 dives
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Being located in the heart of Raja Ampat, the Farondi Islands offer a priceless diving experience. These islands have dramatic landscapes such as caves, tunnels, and vibrant coral reefs with soft corals and sponges. Farondi Cave will show you a unique system of underwater caves and passages, covered in colorful soft corals and sponges, along with pygmy seahorses and frogfish. The next stop would be the beautiful jellyfish lake, where you can snorkel around thousands of stingless jellyfish that lost their stings from the lack of predators. You are advised not to wear sunscreen because their physiology is sensitive to chemicals.
Total Dive: 1 dive + snorkeling at jellyfish lake
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
The morning brings us to Melissa Garden for the first dive. The dive site is beautiful, with coral reef so full of life, with extended areas of colorful coral gardens made out of hard and soft corals coming in many colors and shapes. It is the perfect spot to encounter brightly colored nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, ghost pipefish, and many anemone fish. Keruo Channel is great for a drift dive, where you can float along past many walls and slopes, helping you cover much ground in a single dive. The marine life starts from angelfish, giant trevally, octopus, to green turtles, black-tip reef sharks, and even manta rays. My Reef dive site is an amazing dive with so much coral and teeming underwater life.
Total Dive: 4 dives
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Yangefo, located in the heart of Raja Ampat, is known for its diverse and teeming underwater life. It offers a beautiful diving experience in between its coral gardens, with many underwater creatures from the small nudibranchs to reef sharks, to manta rays. Arborek gives a mix of sandy bottoms and coral gardens, full of life and colorful. The site is teeming with marine life, while the structure of the jetty provides a shelter for swarms of fish. The site is renowned for its wide variety of small marine life, making it a perfect destination for an underwater exploration. You can find creatures such as giant clams, frogfish, pipefish, snappers, surgeonfish, angelfish, and barracudas. Citrus Ridge can also be a beautiful playground for divers, especially with its teeming reef slope covered with orange and purple soft corals. You can spot many fish schooling in this area, including colorful bommies, wobbegong sharks, sea turtles, and macro life. And in Mayhem dive site, you can find natural walls and slopes rich with soft and hard coral. The strong current there brings an abundance of marine life; you can see sightings of Manta Rays, Fusiliers, Snappers, Batfish, Sweetlips, and even Bumphead Parrotfish. We’d also be able to have some island excursion, having a look at the local surroundings as we visit the Arborek village, and learn about the locals’ culture and way of life.
Total Dive: 4x dives
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
On our last diving sessions, we’d be exploring Mansuar. The area is proper for a drift dive and you’d be able to see so much underwater life. Mansuar is covered with big seafans and many species of fish schooling, perfect for finding good macro life. Kri will be one of the best highlights on the last day with its world-famous underwater diversity, as it holds the record for having the highest number of species in one dive. You can spot small and big reef fish such as snappers, cardinal, fusilier, sweetlips, butterflyfish, along with all kinds of sharks, hawksbill turtles, octopus, and a huge tornado of barracuda. Blue Magic dive site, on the other hand, is a pinnacle reef out in the open ocean. It is no doubt one of the best dive sites in the whole archipelago. It is full of life with tuna, oceanic Manta Rays, grey reef sharks, and white-tip and black-tip reef sharks.
Total Dive: 2
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Arriving in Sorong, you will have a hearty breakfast before disembarking from the vessel and returning to the harbour. You will be dropped off at the airport by our representatives for your next destination. See you next dive!
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