Damai I Itinerary
Manado8 days / 7 nights
About Damai I
- Indonesia's most diverse selection of liveaboard diving itineraries
- Explore some of Indonesia's remote regions like Cenderawasih and Triton Bay
- Make the most of unlimited diving, superb camera facilities, and small groups
- Little luxuries like master cabins, gourmet cuisine, and spa services
Dive Damai’s original vessel, the Damai I liveaboard is a luxurious traditional phinisi custom-built for scuba diving. This liveaboard offers a staggering variety of itineraries visiting classic destinations including Komodo and Raja Ampat, as well as remote and seldom visited areas like Cenderawasih Bay and Triton Bay. Dedicated divers will love this boat's fantastic facilities and outstanding service underwater, including unlimited dives and small guide-to-guest ratios.
Itinerary details
Length of trip 8 days / 7 nights
Number of dives 24
Experience Open Water - Minimum 10 dives
Insurance Required
Highlights
- Enjoy the varied macro life of Bunaken
- Fantastic muck diving in Lembeh
- Log dives in Bunaken National Marine Park
- Dive the great colours, vibrant fish life and perfect macro at Bangka
Day 1: Arrive into Manado
The flight usually arrives in Manado in the morning, and you will go directly to Damai and make yourselves comfortable. You can complete a checkout dive today depending on how you feel. We'll let you decide.
No. of Dives: 2
Day 2: Bunaken
A National Park since 1991, Bunaken is Famous for its wall diving and good visibility, beautiful sea fans, caves, and sponges filling its dramatic drop-offs. We will do drift dives looking for turtles, some reef sharks, and bumphead parrotfishes. Macro enthusiasts can enjoy critter spotting, such as Harlequin Shrimp, Ornate Ghost Pipefish and an array of shrimps and crabs.
No. of Dives: 4
Day 3: Bangka
Large amount of dive sites to choose from around the island. Soft corals, big schools of fish—snappers, fusiliers, surgeonfish, blacktip, grey reef, and many different nudibranchs—among its signature sites, we find a large pinnacle just sticking out from the surface with excellent soft corals. Big schools of yellow snappers, fusiliers, and sweetlips.
The sandy bottoms around pinnacles are great for hunting for special macro critters in the reef. such as the pontohi and bargibanti pygmy ornate ghost pipefish. If lucky, you can find dugong in this area
The sandy bottoms around pinnacles are great for hunting for special macro critters in the reef. such as the pontohi and bargibanti pygmy ornate ghost pipefish. If lucky, you can find dugong in this area
No. of Dives: 4
Day 4: Lembeh
The cradle of muck diving. Full day of muck diving at its best, looking for all the weird and wonderful critters such as Bobbitt worm, mimic octopus, ghost pipefish, coconut octopus, frogfish, hairy shrimp, flamboyant cuttlefish, special gobies, etc. etc.
No. of Dives: 4
Days 5 and 6: Bangka
Slopes, mini walls, pinnacles and corals in very good condition. We could say it is a sum up of Indonesia: Great colours, vibrant fish life and perfect macro. There are possibilities for all kinds of dives that would impress all divers.
No. of Dives: 4/day
Day 7: Siladen
A perfect way to end the trip among the healthy reefs of Siladen, Colorful reefs mixing hard and soft corals, with Damsel, Butterfly, Anthias, Bannerfish wondering among reef sharks and a large population of green turtles.
No. of Dives: 2
Day 8: Departure
Guests will be escorted to the airport in Manado and assisted with check-in procedures, no doubt full of talk about the wonders of the most popular dive destination in the world.
Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.
Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.
Transfer details
Departure
11:00am
Manado
Manado International Airport: MDC
Return
10:00am
Manado
Manado International Airport: MDC
Current availability and prices: https://www.zubludiving.com/itineraries/damai-i/itn-2506130632351-manado