Halmahera

Raja Ampat, Halmahera & Lembeh: Sorong-Bitung, Bitung-Sorong

Disclaimer: Itineraries are only orientative and might be modified due to weather conditions, sea conditions and other external causes.

• DAY 1: Pick up at Sorong airport, transfer to the boat, welcome drink and accommodation. Check dive in the afternoon at one of the reefs surrounding Sorong. Overnight sail to Dampier Straits.
• DAY 2: Diving in the fabulous reefs in the Dampier Straits: Sardine reef, Blue Magic and Mioskon amongst others. Night dive at Saporkren, one of the best in Raja Ampat (muck diving).
• DAY 3: Dive around Fam, at the western end of the Dampier Straits, in My Reef, Melissa’s Garden, The Lagoon… Afternoon ascent to the viewpoint. Overnight sail to Daram (Misool).
• DAY 4: Dive around Misool in some of the “classics” such as Fiabacet, Whale Rock, Pulau Boo or Shadow Reef (a.k.a. Magic Mountain). Visit the black tip shark nursery in the beach of Yilliet one of the two days.
• DAY 5: Two morning dives around Wayilbatan, like Four King or Wedding Cake. In the afternoon third dive in Kaleidoscope ridge in Pele Island. Overnight sail to Pulau Pisang.
• DAY 6: Three day dives around the Batuanyer Rocks to the north and south of Pulau Pisang. Soft corals, schools of jacks and surgeon fish, Napoleon wrasse and tunas. Overnight to the Patintie Straits.
• DAY 7: Dive the current-struck sites in the Patintie Straits such as Proco channel, Batu Jabu and the signature site discovered by the manager of Ondina: Ric’s Rock. Night dive and sail to the Goraici group.
• DAY 8: Three dives around the Goraici group: Reenie’s Rock, Pulau Goweba and Terumbu Gora. Overnight sail to Pulau Tifore.
• DAY 9: Two morning dives in Pantai Sago, a wall with a school of 1.000 barracudas, and afternoon dive in a hard coral garden in the north coast of the island. Night sail to Pulau Lembeh.
• DAY 10: Four dives in the Lembeh Strait, looking for strange critters in this “muck” diving paradise.
• DAY 11: Two last dives in the morning in Lembeh. In the afternoon visit the Tangkoko Nature Reserve to see the tarsios, a small nocturnal primate found only on a limited number of islands in Southeast Asia, and preparations for departure the following morning.