The water temperatures experience little variation through the year, averaging from 26-29 degrees. The diving is excellent all year round. The size and spread of Indonesia makes generalisation difficult but typically the wetter season is Jan - March, although as it is a truly tropical destination, you can experience short downpours at any time of year.
Diving Highlights
Indonesia boasts some of the highest biodiveristy you will find worldwide. This is primarily a macro destination with incredibly healthy corals but you can find some fast currents which attract bigger fish on occasion. There is such a great biodiverity it is impossible to list them everything but some of the most popular finds include:
- Pygmy sea horses - Bargibanti, Denise & Colemans
- Ghost pipefish
- Blue ringed octopus
- Mandarin fish
- Frogfish
- Sea snakes
- Eagle rays
- Turtles
Top dive sites to visit: there are so many and lots are still being identified! Main areas of interest for divers on a liveaboard are Manado, South Sulawesi, Komodo, Flores and Raja Ampat.
Scuba Travel Tips
It is well worth thinking about having a few days on arrival to relax from your flight before your diving starts. Or why not combine 2 diving options and see more of this incredible country. Take some dollars with you for your visa (obtained on arrival) and Indonesian rupiah for the exit taxes and tipping. If you are visiting one of the Muslim islands, lightweight cover is handy for shoulders when exploring local areas.
Indo Siren is the premier scuba diving liveaboard to be in Indonesia. She is as good looking as her sister ship, Philippine Siren, with the same incredible facilities for divers on board. You will be spoilt for choice as you sail the blue waters around Raja Ampat, Komodo and Flores. These are gla...read more here
Komodo is one of Indonesia's most famous islands with the great Komodo dragon being one if the island's most well known inhabitants. Yet there is so much more to Komodo and divers should certainly take notice of this archipelago. Indonesia is recognised as having on of the most biologically diverse ...read more here
It is undeniably the phenomenal diversity, both above and below the water, that makes scuba diving in Indonesia's an unmissable stop on the diving map. Yet in such an expansive country, only a liveaboard in Indonesia enables you to really experience the true beauty and best scuba diving on offer he...read more here
Paradise Dancer is quite simply a one of a kind vessel diving the alluring reefs of Indonesia. Despite it's old world design, echoing the schooners and sail boats, Paradise Dancer is a thoroughly modern dive boat. Cruising the waters of Raja Ampat and North Sulawesi. This Dancer Fleet vessel is a t...read more here
The Pelagian takes the same luxurious standards, so characteristic of the Wakatobi Dive Resort, and lets you enjoy them on sites even more remote than can be reached from shore. Never crowded, this boat places the entire Wakatobi Marine Park at your fin tips and will get you to some of the best dive...read more here
WAOW takes space, excellence and luxury to a whole new level in Indonesia. This is a vast liveaboard offering itineraries in some of Indonesia's most exciting dive spots. Launched in April 2012, WAOW builds on years' of diving experience and everything you could ever want has been put on board fo...read more here
Just after Komodo are the Alor Islands followed by Flores... and together they form Indonesia's secret reefs. Choose to dive either of these areas for your Indonesian liveaboard holiday, and you will push the boundaries of dive exploration. Accessible for all levels of diver, in between the stunni...read more here
Manado is the tip of Sulawesi and offers an incredible range of dives in a single Indonesian liveaboard. The Bunaken to Lembeh itinerary is one of extremes - move from the plunging depths of the Bunaken national park to the shallow sands of Lembeh Straits. From schooling fish on a drop off to muck d...read more here
The Halmahera to Sulawesi itinerary takes you to some of the least seen dive sites in Indonesia. If it is a remote and seldom dive itinerary you are looking for for you next scuba diving holiday, then this is the liveaboard for you! The Indonesian landscape is breathtakingly rugged, filled with l...read more here
Komodo National Park is well known for the ferocious looking dragons but it is also growing in reupatation as being a must do dive destination in Indonesia. The unique ecology of the area, formed by volcanic activity, has shaped a diver's paradise underwater with muck dives, walls and more marine l...read more here
North Sulawesi boasts an impressive concentration of Indonesia's prime scuba diving spots, now all within the sailing range of a single liveaboard holiday. The North Sulawesi Itinerary visits some of Indonesia's best known dives sites, visiting not only the Bunaken National Park and famous Lembeh S...read more here
Raja Ampat may be difficult to find on a map but it is a scuba diving experience quite unlike any other and one of the all time great Indonesian dive destinations. This is a vast expanse of sea, peppered with literally hundreds of tiny islands and coves, which means the only was to truly explore Ra...read more here
Raja Ampat may be difficult to find on a map but join a liveaboard here for a scuba diving experience in Indonesia quite unlike any other. This is one liveaboard holiday you will never forget. Whilst there are 4 main islands making up Raja Ampat, there are over 1500 islands and islets that carve the...read more here
Raja Ampat is fast becoming scuba diving legend and is a vastly unexplored region encompassing Misool, Salawati, Bantanta and Waigeo islands in Indonesia. These are only the main island though - there are over 1500 tiny islands and inlets making Raja Ampat pure diving escapism on some of the most lu...read more here
Wakatobi may seem like a mere speck on a map but in reality, Indonesia is a long swathe of islands cutting through the waters. Wakatobi sits on the edge of the Banda Sea and whilst you can opt to stay shorebased, there is no better way to really get to know the area that from the comfort of a liveab...read more here
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