Komodo Dive Safari Special
Komodo National Park is one of the world’s richest marine environments. Amazing underwater coral gardens, home to a myriad of exotic fish await you at our dive sites. Sharks and manta rays are also common visitors to these waters.
Our diving schedule in the park is split into northern sites and southern sites according to the season. Pelagic Tour offers two amazing itineraries for divers. Both of them include the best dive spots in the park and promise divers the opportunity to experience some of the most dramatic diving on earth.
All our trips are family friendly with special discounts for children.
Welcome aboard the Schooner and get ready to discover this breath-taking natural aquarium!
Itinerary:
ON DAY ONE
Upon arrival at Labuan Bajo airport (located at the western tip of Flores), we purchase our ‘conservation’ tag to enter the Komodo National Park. After we settle in on board the Schooner, we depart to Sebayor Island, less than two hours from the mainland.
After embarkation, there will first be a general ships’ briefing to familiarize you with the vessel and our safety and emergency procedures. We do a test dive to check our equipment, make adjustments to the weights and get to know each other. We spend the night at the mooring and do our first-night dive. We do two dives this day.
ON DAY TWO
We sail to Gili Lawa Laut. This small island located in the north of Komodo offers beautiful landscapes and some of the prettiest dive sites in the Park. This area offers classic reef dives, sea-mounts, and exciting channels.
Here we do three dives including ‘Crystal Rock’, famous for its spectacular scenery where the turn of every corner brings a new surprise – be it a school of fish, stunning corals or even the occasional shark. In late afternoon our staff will take you to an amazing spot on the hill to enjoy the sunset over the Park. We do 4 dives this day.
ON DAY THREE
We plan an early morning dive at Castle Rock. With its tip just six meters below sea level, this spectacular sea-mount is regarded as probably the best shark site in the park. Sometimes we see dolphins on patrol, rainbow runners, schools of jacks, and eagle rays hovering in the clear blue waters. We plan to dive here four times, including a night dive. We do 4 dives this day.
ON DAY FOUR
We hoist anchor and moves to the island of Tatawa. Our first dive will be a drift dive on a beautiful reef where we can expect to spot turtles as well as humphead parrot fish. Our second dive will be on Batu Bolong which is considered one of the best sites in the Park. The marine life around this small pinnacle is nothing short of breath-taking with plenty of fish action including sharks, giant trevallies, tuna and Napoleon wrasse.
The expansive reef of Karang Makasar is one of the best places to spot manta rays in the national park; divers have rarely been disappointed. We will also try to spot some black-tip reef sharks which often patrol between the coral bommies. We will do our last day dive here. In the late afternoon, the Schooner sails a south-easterly course towards the northern tip of Rinca island. After the captain anchors, we plan to do an exciting night dive. We do 4 dives this day.
ON DAY FIVE
We do our last dive after breakfast on the island of Tengah Kecil. This is a sloping reef which has colorful hard and soft coral growth, abundant sponges and fish life. Along the top of the reef, hard corals provide homes for huge clouds of schooling anthias and fusiliers.
After lunch, we will go ashore and take a short hike inland on Rinca Island to spot the famous Komodo Dragons. Once we are back aboard, the Schooner sails a short distance to an anchorage just north of the westernmost tip of the island. Afterward, we will go ashore and take a short hike to the nearby village and meet the local people. We hope to hear of their adventures at sea and of their secrets of life and death. We will spend the night at anchor. We do 2 dives this day.
ON DAY SIX
You will wake up in the harbor of Labuan Bajo on the Flores mainland. After breakfast, we say farewell to the captain and crew and transfer you to the airport for the return flight to Bali or to any other destination.
Itinerary:
ON DAY ONE
Upon arrival at Labuan Bajo airport (located at the western tip of Flores) we purchase our ‘conservation’ tag to enter the Komodo National Park. After we settle in on board, the Schooner departs to Sebayor Island, only two hours from the mainland. We hold a general ships’ briefing to familiarize you with the vessel and our safety and emergency procedures.
We do a test dive here to check our equipment, make adjustments to our weights and get to know each other. We spend the night at the mooring and do our first-night dive. We do 2 dives this day.
ON DAY TWO
The Schooner hoists anchor and moves to the Island of Tatawa. Our first dive will be a drift dive on a beautiful reef where we can expect to spot turtles as well as humphed parrot fish. Our second dive will be on Batu Bolong which is considered one of the best sites in the Park. The marine life around this small pinnacle is nothing short of breath-taking with plenty of fish action including sharks, giant trevallies, tuna and Napoleon wrasse.
The boat then sails south towards the island of Padar. After anchoring, we do our third beautiful dive. In the late afternoon, our staff takes you to an amazing spot on the hill to enjoy the sunset over the Park. We spend the night at anchor. We do 4 dives this day.
ON DAY THREE
We hoist anchor in the early morning and move to Nusa Kode. We wake up surrounded by an exceptionally beautiful landscape. Several outstanding sites are located in southern Rinca`s horseshoe bay, among them ‘Larry`s Yellow Wall of Texas’ which is covered in spectacular soft corals and the world famous ‘Cannibal Rock’ with its mounds of hard and soft corals swarmed by a myriad of invertebrates and fish.
We do four dives here including a night dive at ‘Torpedo point’, an excellent critter dive. We spend the night at anchor in the Bay. We do 4 dives this day.
ON DAY FOUR
We hoist the anchor very early so we can explore the splendid dive sites of the southern tip of Komodo island.
We plan four dives in this area including a night dive and “Manta Alley”.
As the name suggests, this site harbors a cleaning station that attracts manta rays and a huge range of different fish species as well as some stunning scenery.”German Flag” and” End of the world” are dive sites bursting with life.
The presence of the waters from the Sape Strait between Komodo and Sumbawa islands allow the opportunity to spot bigger fish including pelagics. These dive sites offer beautiful seascapes and have something for everyone. After anchoring, we plan to do a night dive at an excellent spot. We do 4 dives this day.
ON DAY FIVE
We do our last dive after breakfast at a site called Pantai Merah which means pink beach. Expect to see brilliant hard coral formations and a dazzling array of fish here. Frogfish are also resident here and even an occasional white-tip reef shark makes an appearance. Afterward, we will go ashore and take a short hike on Komodo island to spot the famous Komodo Dragons.
After lunch, we will spend time at this beautiful beach to sample the excellent snorkeling. Later in the afternoon, we will spend some time ashore to meet the people in the local village and listen to the stories of their adventures at sea. We do 2 dives this day.
ON DAY SIX
We wake up in the harbor of Labuan Bajo on the Flores mainland. After breakfast, we say farewell to the captain and crew and transfer you to the airport for the return flight to Bali or to any other destination.
6 days/5 nights accommodation on the Schooner
While three of the cabins have double beds for couples, and 2 with single beds but transformable in doubble beds.
Accommodation is on a shared basis with AC cabins.
Tanks and weights
Transfer Airport-Harbor-Airport in Labuanbajo, West Flores
All meals.
Service coffee and tea, soft drinks, mineral water.
English-speaking Cruise Director and Dive Master
Inc. 16 Dives
Komodo National Park fee.
Any personal expenditure such as laundry, phone calls, tipping, alcoholic drinks etc.
Return flight tickets and airport taxes to Labuan Bajo.
Please contact us in advance to ensure there will be available space on the flight to Labuan Bajo.
Top quality rental diving equipment is available as part of our services.
- Our Komodo tour packages depart from Labuanbajo, West Flores.
- Our trip in the northern area is scheduled from March to December.
- Our trip in the southern area is scheduled from October to mid- December.
There are daily flights to Labuanbajo from Bali.
Labuanbajo is a one hour flight from Bali.
It is possible to reach Labuanbajo using local ferries from Sape in East Sumbawa and Bira in South Sulawesi
Bringing your own diving gear is best and we recommend that you bring a 3-5 mm full wet-suit to provide plenty of warmth while diving.
Participants are informed that the itinerary and program of our sea voyages may occasionally be modified due to factors beyond our control: unfavorable weather conditions, delay in processing harbor clearances, modified schedules of domestic flights etc.
The cruise director and captain of the boat may have to adjust the program accordingly and will do so to the best interest of all.
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A discount of fifty percent will apply for children if they sleep in the cabin with their parents.
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