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A way to go through the highlights of Triton Bay, north and south of Raja Ampat and explore the best wrecks of Indonesia DAY 1Arrival to Kaimana and departure DAYS 2,3 AND 4Triton bay. This is bound to be the next hot spot. The diversity of colors and shape of the soft corals are a dream come true for every diver, not to forget the fish life, in general extremely healthy reefs with all kind of fish in them. 7th heaven will be our firs stop and it will give a real touch of the area, crowded with fish, schooling grunts, giant trevallies, giant jacks, barracudas, some solitary manta, giant turtles, walking shark, giant There is no much fishing in the bay, and as a result the amount of fish is spectacular; Gt Rock is the perfect example; it has hundreds of grunts and red snappers hiding behind the small pinnacles. Enormous sweet lips in a frozen image posing for you while getting cleaned, giant trevallies and tunas are constantly patrolling and the fusiliers aggregate by the thousands - another must in your list Legendary Larry Smith did his last dive trip to this area, and he became amazed with the biodiversity that it is found here, We have a lot to thank Larry, he introduce Indonesia to the rest of us, if not for him, we would not be looking for small critters and certainly Indonesia would not be as famous as it is now. A little tribute of the diving community was to name this dive site after him. Larry's heaven honors his memory and all what he fought for. It is the dive site that broke the world record in counting different species; it has more biodiversity that any other place in the planet!!! The south corner is like Larry said heaven. Pay attention: amazing is the experience of getting on the middle of fields of black coral, not seen anywhere else, but do not get too amazed, you would not be the first pro in forgetting and loosing a camera down there!!! The last dives will be dedicated to spot the new species of flasher wrasse, just beautiful. We will proceed to go with the tenders through hundreds of tiny islands, turquoise water under us - a top side wonder, we will complete the area with a cultural visit to the ancient paintings on the rocks DAY5Air Tanjung. Incredible waterfalls, unique to take pictures, great for fun. Nice and relaxing diving near Mommon bay. A mandatory stop that will refresh our minds and bodies and get us ready for what is next DAY 6Pulau Pisang. Beautiful archipelago some 30 miles south of Missol. Giant elephant ears, super healthy corals, schools of fish, mantas and turtles will be waiting for us in this remote and untouched treasure. DAYS 7, 8 AND 9Missol: Farondi. Fantastic dive in 3 sisters, a swim through that attracts lots of life among them mobulas. Unique underwater scenery, fans, soft corals. A nice cave complete the diving. Superb tender boat trip among islands. Darat: The south west corner in Missol gives home to schools of bumphead parrot fish, fusiliers, sardines, snappers, all of them swimming among unbelievable fans and soft and hard corals. Fiabacet. The most famous site of the area, a few small rocks the, once you get in the water, will surprise even the most expert diver for its display: the soft corals are great and the forest of fans out of this world. The fish life cannot be forgotten, as plenty of trevallies, jacks and mackerel come close to look for a prey, the area is protected and already juvenile grey reefs are setting there In Wayilbatan the passage offers another spectacular dive, in between two islands the mild currents have created a gallery of fans, of all kinds and sizes. At the entrance nice bommies with soft corals, sweet lips and turtles. Great!! Pulau Boo is yet another 5 star dive, towards the south part schooling batfish, in the north a nice wall completely decorated and in the middle the 3 holes where either early in the morning or late in the afternoon the light can create many effects. We will try to heat the main island to look for ancient paintings, sculls etc DAY 10Batanta: A good change in the middle of the trip. We will be dedicating the entirely day to muck diving. The best in the area is found at the south of this beautiful island: mandarin and picturesque dragonets, mimics and wonderpus, frog fish, a great variety of nudies DAY 11Exploratory day. Let's be the fortunate souls to dive for the first time remote corners of the northern part of western Papua, the excitement is guarantee DAY 12,13AND 14Cendarawashi bay: The best wreck diving in south east Asia. Time to get that peculiar feeling only to be found while diving in 2d world war wrecks, decorated in spectacular soft corals and surrounded by thousands of fish. Watch out for the dugongs!! DAY 15Arrival at Manokwari
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