The Lady Denok 7D6N Komodo Island itinerary is the best liveaboard option for divers who want to see everything Komodo has to offer in a short amount of time. This trip on the traditional Phinisi schooner Lady Denok is all about the best parts of Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its strong currents and amazing marine species. Every day is full of world-class dives at famous places, such the thrilling drifts at Shotgun, the shark-filled walls of Batu Bolong, and the colorful coral gardens of Siaba Besar. This 7-day Komodo liveaboard is meticulously planned to provide you a nonstop show of underwater excitement, so you won’t miss the park’s famous manta ray cleaning stations, schools of fish, and immaculate reefs.
This Lady Denok Komodo package perfectly combines the park’s famous land excursions with amazing diving. The tour includes important land excursions beyond the reef. For example, a guided trek to see the ancient Komodo dragons on Rinca Island and a sunset viewing at Kalong Island to see thousands of flying foxes fill the sky. The 7-day itinerary is more efficient, so you spend less time traveling and more time getting into the activity, both above and below the surface. The Lady Denok 7D6N Komodo Island voyage is the perfect mix of adventure and practicality for smart travelers and diving fans who don’t have a lot of time. It has everything that makes Komodo famous in one place: exciting currents, huge animals, and unusual wildlife. It’s the best way to spend a week in one of the most active marine habitats on Earth.
More About Lady DenokDives: Approximately 15 dives in total
Experience: Advanced Open Water – 30 minimum logged dives.
Marine life: jawfish, bubble coral shrimps, leaf fish, porcelain crabs, pygmy seahorses, schools of barracudas, trevally, and mackerel, white tips, black tips, grey reef sharks, turtles, octopus, frogfish, manta rays, dugong, banded pipefishes, mandarin fishes, Wonderpus, Indian Walkman
We will go to your new home for the next days and check you in to your cabin on Lady Denok phinisi. During a welcome drink, we sail to our first destination ‘Sebayor Island’ where we will stay overnight. Check dive in the afternoon with maybe also a night dive. Maybe we will see here the bumphead Parrotfish that mostly swim in schools of 10 to 15 species.
Gili Lawa Laut: Here we have several good dive sites named Christal and Castle Rock, and the Lighthouse all filled with various marine life. Chrystal and Castle Rock with huge schools of Barracuda, Trevally, and Mackerel also Shark, Napoleon and Sweat lips beautiful sea fans and corals. At the Lighthouse we will see pyramid butterflyfish and maybe also octopus.
Gili Lawa Darat: now we are on the south side of Gili Lawa Laut and Darat so not far away from yesterday’s diving. Here we also have the opportunity to hike up on the hill and enjoy the fabulous few and make some beautiful sunset pictures looking over the island of Komodo. The dive sites in this area are The Golden Passage, the Couldrain, and Coral Garden; here we can see Manta, Reef Shark, Giant Wrasse, Turtle, Giant Trevally, and “Dogi”Tuna.
Today we will sail over Makassar Strait to Batu Balong and Tetawa Besar Thousands of fish in every color and shape at Batu Balong. Wrasse, Unicorn, Moray eel, rainbow runner. Many big fish and good coral diversity can be seen along its steep wall. And in the Makassar Strait (drift diving) we can see Manta at a cleaning station where we will have the chance to see them more closely. Beautiful coral garden at Tetawa Besar with turtles and an abundance of small fish.
Last night we anchored around Tetawa Besar and now we will have a dive around this area.Tetawa Besar/Kecil, Siaba Kecil and Pantai Mehra (red Beach).
Tetawa Kecil – rocks and caves and a beautiful coral garden at the reef on the west side of the island. Siaba Kecil is a rocky island with a lot of current and there are many fish and beautiful corals. Pantai Mehra – Leaf Scorpion Fish, Blue Ribbon Eels, Crocodile fish and Nudibranches, and a huge variety of different fish.
Pantai Mehra to Batu Tiga and Rinca: We will have an early morning dive at Pantai Merah or at Batu Tiga, which is a “big fish dive”, where we will see Mantas, Giant Trevallies, and Reef Sharks. After the dive we sail towards “the Dragons” on Rica island. We will arrive in the afternoon at one of the main jumping points for a trip to Komodo, the Island Rinca, where we will go on a two and a half-hour guided track, to see the legendary prehistoric lizard, Komodo dragon.
After seeing the Dragons we will drop anchor at “Bat” Island, which is a small island with mangrove forest. It features a beautiful panorama and amazing view when thousands of flying fox (bat) come out from their nests at sunset.
Departure day: snorkeling and enjoy the beach at Pulau Bidadari or another beach before your transfer to the airport.
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Not Included
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Certificate: Advanced Open Water
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Certificate: Advanced Open Water
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We went to Komodo for 7 days and did 2 land activities that we really liked. The dive guides are great folks who always try their best to find us exciting stuff to see underwater. Our guide Benni was especially helpful and took great care of all of us. The current in Shot Gun was like a huge typhoon, and we had a great time! I didn’t know I liked Indonesian food so much. Fried rice and fried noodles are very good! The only bad thing was that we didn’t see any Manta, but the crew truly did their best; we just had terrible luck.
