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Itinerary: Underwater Odysseys
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With more than 17,500 islands under its archipelago belt, Indonesia boggles the minds of divers and snorkellers with a feast of underwater adventures.
Maluku’s Banda Islands are encircled by dense coral gardens, cascading drop-offs and superb marine life. Best of all, they’re so remote you may score this underwater vista all to yourself.
Oversized fish, sleepy sea fans and gaping canyons lounge beneath the ocean’s surface near Sumatra’s Pulau Weh. The pick of the destinations here are the 20 dive sites around Long Angen , the stomping ground for majestic manta rays, lion fish and morays.
Sulawesi’s spectacular Pulau Bunaken simmers with more than 300 species of fish and coral types. Countless drop-offs, caves and valleys provide ample viewing for days of diving, and turtles, rays, sharks and dolphins are common visitors. Then there’s the renowned Lembeh Strait, an underwater universe of otherworldly and utterly photogenic marine life.
Off Kalimantan’s northeast corner, Pulau Derawan is the best base for the Sangalaki Archipelago, as indicated by the turtles who nest here regularly and the schools of tuna who shimmy offshore.
In Nusa Tenggara, a diverse range of marine life simmers underwater in the Gili Islands, and around Komodo and Labuanbajo.
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