Sea Safari VII

Day 1 : Labuan Bajo – Sabolan Island You will be picked up from the airport to the harbor by our representative. The Lunch will be served, and while you enjoy lunch and the breeze on the boat, we will sail towards Sabolan Island. Sabolan Island boasts great experience of water activities. Here you will be able to snorkel, dive, canoe, or ride on banana boat. Diving in this site is recommended. The soft corals and large gorgonians are excellent. The fish life, particularly sharks, makes this site even more inviting. In the late evening, the boat sail to Rinca. Meals : Lunch and dinner Day 2 : Rinca – Komodo National Park – Pink Beach Arrive in Rinca early in the morning. After breakfast onboard, we will go to ashore and trekking around the National Park around three or four hours. Lunch will be served onboard, while the boat will departed for Pink Beach. We will arrive at the Pink Beach for more water activities on the clear water and white sandy beach. Snorkeling and diving are recommended for coral and fish lovers. Fish lovers often find schools of fishes here. When weather is permitted, we will have barbeque on the beach. After barbeque, we will set the boat to go back to Labuan Bajo. Meals : Breakfast, lunch, and dinner Day 3 : Labuan Bajo Breakfast will be served on board. After breakfast, preparation for embarkation will takes place. Our representative will send you to the airport. We wish you a nice trip ahead and hope to see you again. Meals : Breakfast

Start from Labuan Bajo airport, you will be transferred to the harbor to meet Sea Safari boat. Welcome drinks will be offered. Cabin allocation and ship orientation will take place before depart to Sabolan for check dive. Meals : Lunch, Dinner The dive will be approximately 3 dives a day, you will be served with breakfast, lunch and dinner. The last day: The ship will arrive in Labuan Bajo early in the morning. You will be served breakfast and afterwards prepare for disembarkation. And you will transferred to the airport to catch 1,5 hours domestic flight to Denpasar, Bali. Meals : Breakfast

Day 1: Labuhan Bajo – Sabolan – Arrive at the newly built Labuan Bajo airport in Flores. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation, and ship orientation will take place before departing the Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site, Sabolan, for a check dive, take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 1-2 

Day 2: Canibal Rock – Banana Island – Yellow Wall – Torpedo Alley – Unbelievable amounts of rare nudibranchs fight for space on the rock with the thousands of multi-colored feather stars and unusual sea apples that hide juvenile painted frogfish and ghost pipefish. Adult frogfish swim around the rock that hosts such surprises as Coleman Shrimp, Zebra crabs, Rhinopias, hawksbill turtles, blue-ringed octopus, and Torpedo Rays.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 4 – 5mm wetsuit is recommended, Temp 22-25 degrees centigrade.

Day 3: Manta Alley – Lohok Sera Bay – Komodo Island – First 2 dives of the day will be for Mantas; we will start our dive at The Stadium to the west of the rocks. In the lee area in this small bay, where the maximum depth is 30 meters, there are almost always Mantas cleaning here or traveling through to the other side of the islets. The second dive we will start in “The Channel.”

We then move to Lohok Sera bay to enjoy the small wreck where you can find many nudi’s and other macro life. Our fourth dive will be a dusk dive to go in search of the elusive mandarin fish. This spot is well known to have some large specimens.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 4

Day 4: Castle Rock – Gili Lawa Laut – Crystal Rock – We will dive into the famous Castle Rock, well known for curious batfish, trevally, mackerels, and white tip reef sharks. Down at 30 meters, you can see Grey Reef sharks. There is also excellent soft coral coverage. There is another dive site, Crystal Rock, known for schools of surgeonfish and snappers and the occasional manta. Dive 3 will be at Shotgun; this is a unique dive. Between the two islands of Gili Lawa Laut and Gili Lawa Darat is a small channel and wall. The current here attracts Giant Trevallies, Mantas, Turtles, and Barracudas. Night dive on Gili Lawa Laut reef, known for huge Spanish Dancers and other nigh time critters

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 4

Day 5: Batu Bolong – Tatawa Kecil – Rinca –Before we land to see the Komodo dragons on Rinca Island, we will visit one of the finest pinnacles you will ever see, Batu Bolong. The reef is covered in colorful corals, invertebrate life, and thousands of Anthias and other brilliant reef fish. Along the steep walls in deeper water, many large fish, including sharks, napoleon wrasse, giant trevally, and dogtooth tuna. Large schools of rainbow runners and fusiliers can be observed on almost every occasion. Tatawa Kecil offers a drift dive along some of the largest fields of branching corals in Komodo. Batfish, Eagle Rays, and Turtles are some of the highlights. The afternoon will be spent trekking with park rangers as guides looking for Komodo Dragons on Rinca Island. Be sure to bring a hat, sunscreen, and your camera.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 2

Day 6: Labuhan Bajo – The ship will arrive in Labuan Bajo early in the morning. You will be served breakfast and afterward prepare for disembarkation. You will be transferred to the airport. Trip end.

Meals: Breakfast

No dive

Marine Life: Bumphead parrotfish, bamboo sharks, marble rays, nudibranchs, dusky sharks, 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

All divers must have Open Water certification with at least 25 logged dives in the past five years. Suppose the diver fails to meet this requirement. In that case, Sea Safari Cruises will require the diver to hire a private divemaster to ensure the diver’s safety during the diving activity. The fee for a private divemaster will be 50 USD/day. All divers must produce a written/stamped logbook with their last dives and all necessary certification cards for the type of dives they wish to undertake.

Day 1: Labuhan Bajo – Sabolan – Arrive at the newly built Labuan Bajo airport in Flores. Our representative will be waiting outside the arrival hall and ready to escort you to the ship for immediate boarding. Safety Briefing, Safety DVD, Crew Introduction, Necessary Dive Paperwork, Cabin allocation, and ship orientation will take place before departing the Harbour. During the journey to our first dive site, Sabolan, for a check dive, take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the vessel and make yourself comfortable.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 1-2 

Day 2: Canibal Rock – Banana Island – Yellow Wall – Torpedo Alley – Unbelievable amounts of rare nudibranchs fight for space on the rock with the thousands of multi-colored feather stars and unusual sea apples that hide juvenile painted frogfish and ghost pipefish. Adult frogfish swim around the rock that hosts such surprises as Coleman Shrimp, Zebra crabs, Rhinopias, hawksbill turtles, blue-ringed octopus, and Torpedo Rays.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 4 – 5mm wetsuit is recommended, Temp 22-25 degrees centigrade.

Day 3: Manta Alley – Lohok Sera Bay – Komodo Island – First 2 dives of the day will be for Mantas; we will start our dive at The Stadium to the west of the rocks. In the lee area in this small bay, where the maximum depth is 30 meters, there are almost always Mantas cleaning here or traveling through to the other side of the islets. The second dive we will start in “The Channel.”

We then move to Lohok Sera bay to enjoy the small wreck where you can find many nudi’s and other macro life. Our fourth dive will be a dusk dive to go in search of the elusive mandarin fish. This spot is well known to have some large specimens.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 4

Day 4: Castle Rock – Gili Lawa Laut – Crystal Rock – We will dive into the famous Castle Rock, well known for curious batfish, trevally, mackerels, and white tip reef sharks. Down at 30 meters, you can see Grey Reef sharks. There is also excellent soft coral coverage. There is another dive site, Crystal Rock, known for schools of surgeonfish and snappers and the occasional manta. Dive 3 will be at Shotgun; this is a unique dive. Between the two islands of Gili Lawa Laut and Gili Lawa Darat is a small channel and wall. The current here attracts Giant Trevallies, Mantas, Turtles, and Barracudas. Night dive on Gili Lawa Laut reef, known for huge Spanish Dancers and other nigh time critters

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 4

Day 5: Batu Bolong – Tatawa Kecil – Rinca –Before we land to see the Komodo dragons on Rinca Island, we will visit one of the finest pinnacles you will ever see, Batu Bolong. The reef is covered in colorful corals, invertebrate life, and thousands of Anthias and other brilliant reef fish. Along the steep walls in deeper water, many large fish, including sharks, napoleon wrasse, giant trevally, and dogtooth tuna. Large schools of rainbow runners and fusiliers can be observed on almost every occasion. Tatawa Kecil offers a drift dive along some of the largest fields of branching corals in Komodo. Batfish, Eagle Rays, and Turtles are some of the highlights. The afternoon will be spent trekking with park rangers as guides looking for Komodo Dragons on Rinca Island. Be sure to bring a hat, sunscreen, and your camera.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Dives: 2

Day 6: Labuhan Bajo – The ship will arrive in Labuan Bajo early in the morning. You will be served breakfast and afterward prepare for disembarkation. You will be transferred to the airport. Trip end.

Meals: Breakfast

No dive

Marine Life: Bumphead parrotfish, bamboo sharks, marble rays, nudibranchs, dusky sharks, 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

All divers must have Open Water certification with at least 25 logged dives in the past five years. Suppose the diver fails to meet this requirement. In that case, Sea Safari Cruises will require the diver to hire a private divemaster to ensure the diver’s safety during the diving activity. The fee for a private divemaster will be 50 USD/day. All divers must produce a written/stamped logbook with their last dives and all necessary certification cards for the type of dives they wish to undertake.