These creatures are extremely rare and can’t be found while diving in Komodo for instance. We can agree that this is some of the best diving we’ve done during our trip as we continued to the Banda islands. Here we dived Batu Kapal, or “The boat rock” with loads of fish action and the jetty in Banda Neira to experience the gracful mating of the mandarin fish. During our first part of this trip we didn’t see a single other liveaboard, but in Banda we were greeted by other boats that operate as a liveaboard in raja ampat. After hearing all about Banda’s history we continue up to legendary Misool & Raja Ampat. Despite some poor visibility we all understand the hype about Raja Ampat straight away.
Raja ampat diving