Important Things To Expect On Your Diving Adventure

One of the reasons our guests come here to dive Komodo is the currents, which are well known throughout the diving world, and one of the areas to get these intense currents is in the north of the park.  Usually we would recommend our guests to be a little more experienced, than when diving in the central area – the currents in the north are not for the faint hearted! There are three sites we would normally do on a Komodo National Park day trip , whether we’re going central or north, but when we choose to go to the north, the sites we choose would typically be Castle Rock, Crystal Rock and The Cauldron – aka “The Shotgun”.  These three sites are on any experienced diver’s wish list when Komodo diving – Castle Rock and Crystal Rock are similar dives, pinnacle diving, where you drop out from the rock, and left the current take you on to the exposed side, where you hook on to some rock, and enjoy the show – watching the “big stuff” hunting and feeding is and exhilarating e...

At Mikumba Diving we are lucky to operate in two of the best places in Indonesia to dive – Komodo National Park and Raja Ampat. From May to November our Komodoliveaboard is based in Labuan Bajo,cruising around the National Park until towards the end of November when we head back to Raja Ampat.  We stay there until mid April when we do the crossing back again to Flores.  We call these trips “The Ring of Fire Expeditions” and they really are the trip of a life time.  We travel 2000km in 20 days and we have seen everything from whales, pods of dolphins, hundreds of hammerhead sharks, erupting volcanos and dive in places where no one has dived before.  This is pure expedition diving and our guests love it. Last week we covered what we believe to be some of the best dive sites in Komodo so now we will talk about some of the best places to dive on our budget Raja Ampatliveaboard . One of everyone’s favourites is Melissa’s Garden.  This is one of the m...

If you’re interested in some of the best diving in Indonesia , then look no further, you’ve found the right place in West Papua. Join Mikumba Diving on our budget liveaboard Raja Ampat , for one of the best diving experiences you could ever have. A typical day on our Raja Ampatl iveaboard “RatuPelangi” starts off with an early morning, and a small breakfast of toast and cereal, before we have the briefing for our first dive of the day.  We then get ourselves kitted up, and load up the dinghies to take us to our first dive site, where after a final check, we’re ready to Daily Dive Trips .  Depending on the current, the Cruise Director will choose the best sites for appropriate times of the day, where certain dives we will try to dive with little to no current, other dives are better with a stronger current, as we’re hoping to see the big stuff. People come from all over the world to dive with oceanic mantas in Raja Ampat so there’s a good chance we’ll see them. Aft...