Where is the best scuba diving in Indonesia?
We recommend diving with liveaboards in Indonesia as the best way to experience the destinations. There are various itineraries including the Komodo National Park where the clear, cool water promises some excellent scuba with an abundance of colour and life. These trips also take you ashore to see the Komodo dragons. Going further east means really getting the feeling of frontier diving in Irian Jaya where aficionados believe the best diving in Indonesia is really to be found. Part of the attraction here is the lack of other divers. Here there is also a great spread of diving, from dives with the small and bizarre in the caves system of Misool Island to the big pelagics in the Banda Sea. In terms of bio-diversity (numbers of different types of fish and coral etc) Bunaken Marine Park, near Manado in Sulawesi, is of world renown. Nearby is the Lembeh Strait which is widely believed to be the best place in the world for macro life – here you can see all manner of bizarre critters. So it i