Shenron 5D4N

We will start by doing some refresher dives on some easy dives to let you be comfortable with your buddy, guides, and equipment.

• Sebayur Kecil

This island on the east side of Komodo National Park is a perfect spot to do our check-out dive as currents tend to be very mild here. We start the dive on a white sand patch where we can look out for blue spotted stingrays, garden eels, and other sand inhabitants. Continuing to the east the reef gets into a beautiful hard coral wall. Leaf scorpionfishes, reef octopuses, and moray eels are only a few of the inhabitants of this site.

• Loh Buaya (walk with dragons)

Your day will begin with an exciting visit to Komodo National Park where you will be able to take a stroll with the famous dragon! As you walk along the paths, also stay on the lookout for deer, wild boar, and birds in addition to the giant lizards. After the walk, we moved to the middle area of Komodo National Park.

• Waenilu/Kempling

This night dive is situated off the north of Rinca Island. In the shallows, the hard-coral reef is home to many different critters, including juvenile harlequin sweetlips and batfish. Away from the reef, the sandy slope is scattered with pulsing soft corals that hide demon stingers and starry night octopuses. Different types of nudibranchs, frogfishes, harlequin shrimps, and even weedy rhinophias have been seen here.

• Batu Pengah

This dive site is located in the middle of the Komodo National Park, 12 nautical miles to the north and 12 nautical miles to the south. With a slope to the east of the site and a coral garden to the west Batu Pengah is a beautiful site where we often get to see turtles, cuttlefish, and juvenile white-tip reef sharks that hide under the table corals among the hard coral garden. Napoleon wrasse and big groups of snapper swimming on the slope with all the colorful decorations of the soft coral make Batu Pengah a high-quality dive site.

• Police Corner

Diving at Police Corner requires the right timing to have an enjoyable dive as currents here can be tricky, as is often the case in Komodo. This means experienced and sensible guides who know local conditions, tides, and currents. Which is why most dive centers skip this site. But this place is worth the wait… The steeply sloping reef looks like no other place in the national park. The great overhangs and crags make for incredible lighting as well! Due to the potentially strong currents, the coral here had to adapt and grow flat instead of outwards, but it is by no means any less colorful or beautiful. Red-tooth triggerfishes and fusiliers swim in the blue against the current while you drift past, not knowing if you should look at the reef or all the fish. Nudibranchs are plentiful among all the corals and can bring you in for a closer and closer look.

• Mawan

First of all, Mawan is very famous for seeing manta rays at the cleaning station. Great for ‘muck dives’ this dive site is a veritable treasure trove of macro marine life and an underwater photographer’s dream! With virtually no current, Mawan is suitable for all levels of Divers. Take the opportunity to see a wide variety of nudibranchs, mantis boxing shrimp, broad club cuttlefish, frogfish, and if you are very lucky a wonder pass.

• Padar Wreck

It is a night dive located on Padar Kecil. This dive started following the reef with abundant life, then reached a small wooden boat wreck laying at 18m. It doesn’t look like much You will discover that this small boat is home to incredible marine life such as many giant frogfishes, stonefish, and bobtail squids. A shallow reef exploration leads to the exit point of the dive.

The water temperature here and in the southern dive sites over the next few days can be a little cooler dropping from the normal 28/29 degrees Celsius (82-84 Fahrenheit) to a possible 20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit). Also due to the infinite nutrients in the water creating the amazing biodiversity in this area, the visibility can sometimes be a bit greener. Neither one of these factors can spoil the amazing diving to be had in these areas.
Horseshoe Bay is in the south of Rinca Island and we spend one full day here. Here we dive the famous Cannibal Rock, one of the top ten dive sites in the world according to some diving publications. Watch dragons, wild pigs, deer, and monkeys roam the beach and take a tender ride or kayak to get a closer look.

• Cannibal Rock

This outstanding dive site covers a large area with sandy slopes in the north, deep mini walls in the east, a plateau full of life in the south, and rocky areas in the west. The nutrient-rich bay creates the most spectacular congregation of hard and soft corals in all parts of the dive site.
Sponges, ascidians, sea squirts, and tube anemones are abundant. A great diversity of nudibranchs can be seen here, along with frogfish, turtles, cuttlefish, and other reef fish.

• Yellow Wall

As the name suggests this wall at the southern entrance to Horseshoe Bay is covered in yellow and orange soft corals. A tiny critter, the ladybug, comes in its multitudes here. Nudibranchs decorate the wall that usually has a slight current enabling you to slowly drift along and enjoy the view.

• Batu Kode

Given the position and in the presence of adverse weather and sea conditions, typical of the high season, it is sometimes difficult to reach it. The dive site starts at a depth of 8m. Depending on the current direction, once we jump into the water and after a quick ok, we will go down to around 20-25 m. The spectacle facing us may vary from schools of big barracudas, giant trevallies, tunas, and sharks. Depending on the air supply and the NDL, we will be carried by the current all around until we reach the most protected area.
During the ascent, it will be possible to admire the enormous quantity of corals that cover this pinnacle. Do not miss the sightings of crocodile fish, invertebrates, and nudibranchs. Given the aforementioned summit of the pinnacle, the Safety Stop will be carried out in the blue, always paying particular attention to your buoyancy.

• Torpedo Alley

A marvelous night dive named after the pancake-sized torpedo rays that can be found here. Coconut octopus, seahorses, colorful squid, and the bizarre bobbit worm all live in the black volcanic sand. A very shallow dive with a maximum depth of 10m/30ft, spend time looking for all the strange inhabitants among the rocks, soft corals, and sand.

Manta Alley is located on the south end of Komodo Island. After two dives looking for manta rays, we head up to the middle of Komodo Island to the Pink Beach area.

• Manta Alley

Manta Alley is located in Tora Langkoi Bay along the south coast of Komodo. The dive site barely pierces the ocean’s surface at the end of a line of rock islets. As can be guessed from its name many manta rays are known to frequent this site and it is the most popular one in Komodo for spotting them. The area can be described as a deep gully that works as a funnel when the tide changes, causing the water to rush through at speeds of up to three to four knots with the fall and rise of the tides and up to one knot even during “slack water” periods. Watch the mantas being cleaned on the Northside or enter the ‘Alley’ to see them hover effortlessly in the current.

• End of the World

The dive site known as End of the World is the most southern dive site in Komodo, It is a 40-meter deep wall of rocks with absolutely pristine untouched reefs and tons of overhangs and caves. The marine life is rich and diverse with plenty of White tip sharks, morays, and rays.

• Tanjung Loh Sera

Large fish like dogtooth Tunas can be seen circling off the point and around the pinnacles. Turtles and large fish such as monster-sized giant Trevallies, Potato Cods, Malabar Groupers, schools of Bumphead Parrotfish, Napoleon Wrasse, Manta Ray, and much more can be seen along the wall.
Superb diving all along the Southern point of Loh Sera, or of the point towards underwater pinnacles. Due to potentially strong currents only experienced divers should attempt to swim to the pinnacles. Beginner divers should stay along the wall. Great snorkeling along the Northern shore of this cape.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip at around 10 a.m. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.