Banda Sea

Raja Ampat & Kai Islands: Sorong - Tual, Tual - 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 outside Sorong. Overnight sail to Misool.
• DAY 2: Three day dives and a night dive in the colourful reefs of Daram Islands (Misool): Andiamo, Candy Store and Warna Bewarna, amongst others.
• DAY 3-4: Two days diving some of the classic sites in the Misool area, such as Nudi and Tank Rock, Pulau Boo or Shadow Reef (Magic Mountain). Also visit the blacktip shark nursery in Yilliet beach. At the end of day 4 night sailing to Pulau Pisang.
• DAY 5: Full day around Pulau Pisang diving Lucky Ridge and T-Bone amongst others. Overnight sail to Mommon.
• DAY 6: Two morning dives at Karang Paradise, where literally everything is possible. Soft and hard corals, huge schools of bigeye jacks and surgeons fish, reef sharks and quite often mantas. Afternoon dive near Tiki-Tiki waterfall and visit the waterfall afterwards. Night dive and sail to Kurkap Island.
• DAY 7: Full diving day in Kurkap, diving the main island as well as the reef to the north of it. Pristine corals gardens and lots of fish populate these reefs. After night dive, sail to Pulau Bui.
• DAY 8: Two mornings dives in two different seamounts north from Pulau Bui: Villoch Reef and Ultima Frontera. In the afternoon one more dive in a ridge close to Pulau Bui, where we also do the night dive.
• DAY 9: Two morning dives north of Pulau Tayandu, first in Karang Rembang and the second at Batu Guano. In the afternoon visit Pasir Panjang, a very long stretch of powder white sand beach fringed with coconut trees, before sailing back to Tual. Preparation for departure the morning after.