Diving in Indonesia

Indonesia has some impressive numbers, it is theNusa Ceningan and Nusa Penida offer greta drift
fourth largest population for a country and has overdiving and will give you a greta chance to see the
17,000 islands and 55,000 km of coastline. Indonesia isManta Ray or the Mola Mola also known as the sun
the largest archipelago with a total distance of 5,000fish, which will appear at certain times of the year.
km. Bali is the centre of tourism and the divingThere are plenty more diving beyond Bali such as
industry and has some great dive sites around theManado Bay which is located in a marine park and has
island and is also the launch pad for many live aboardfive main islands which makes a good location to
that head east.explore its deep dives. The coast of Kalimantan
Bali has one of the best wreck dives in Asia with awhich is the Indonesian part of the Borneo is famous
ship called the U.S Liberty which was torpedoedfor its Manta Rays and as several dive operators in
during WW2. It was originally beached but due to athe area.
volcano it was pushed into the water. The wreck isThe islands of Komodo and Flores in Komodo national
not deep and you can actually snorkel the top of thepark are visited by live aboards and this is where the
wreck.famous Komodo dragons are and has some great
There are many other dive sites dotted around Bali'sdiving locations too. Some of the best diving is found
coast line like Amuk Bay near Candidasa north toaround Raja Empat and the seas at the very east of
Amed and then over to Menjangan, a marine park inIndonesia, the Indonesian portion of New Guinea is
the very northwest of Bali with a view of Java. Invery little explored and the diving industry is just
the Lombok starits, the islands of Nusa Lembongan,starting out in that region.