This cruise gives you the impressions of the Indopacific and the Pacific Sea. Untouched landscapes and impressing huge coral banks dominate these very thinly populated isles. All this spectaculary things you will see on the Raja Ampat cruise.

Equator: The Pindito crew has explored the dive sites around and near the Equator. This cruise offers you new unexplored areas, where very few people have dived before. The number of isles is immense. Right in the equator and very close to the island of Kawe there is a little island called Batu Jamur. This rocky peak that stands out of the sea is an "eldorado" for every macro freak. Tunicas, feather stars, nudi branches, just as bigger animals like napoleons, wrasse, moray eels and epaulet sharks can be seen. North of the equator lies the archipelago of Waijag. Many different outlying islands offer wonderful coral gardens and many different fishes.

Misool Islands: This is a region with thousands of isle, which have been pushed up throughout the thousands of years and build a wonderful scene. You come across caves, or caverns everywhere. You´ll find rocks as big as cathedrals, over hangs that improve the dramatic sight of this breathtaking region.

Of course these sights will continue in no less impressing views under water. Misool is one of the places on earth where you´ll find the most various species of fish, hard and soft corals, sponges, worms, nudibranches, shrimps and crabs and all kind of non-vertebrates, like cuttle fish and octopus. You will as well come across wobbegong shark and epaulet sharks, which you will only find in the region of „Raja Empat“. Giant clams as well as fantastic tiny shells. Photographers as well as Videographers will have the dives of their lifetime for shoot macro all over.

By the Misool islands, the Banda Sea and near the Equator are the water temperatures the whole year 26.-29°. For this cruise is a 3mm thin-wet-suit enough.

Irian Jaya: In the lowland are dampness heat and heavy rains normal. In the high land we can’t specify clearly rain and draw seasons. We advise the travel season from October until middle of May.

For actually weather information’s please go to www.wetteronline.de

For the Raja Ampat cruise you need two domestic flights which will bring you from Manado to Sorong and from Sorong back to Manado. As the flight schedule can amend every time, are these under restriction. Follow domestic flights you must book accessory to your cruise.

Before the Raja Ampat cruise are two nights and one night after the trip necessary to be spent in Manado, because the domestic flights are not connected to the international flights. For guests who do not follow this procedure and do not catch their onward flights, we do not bear any responsibility.

For our Pindito guests we’re glad to book the hotels in Manado. For transit stays of 1 – 2 nights we recommend the Santika Hotel in Manado. For any wishes regarding a program prior or after the Pindito tour, we’d be glad to advise our recommendations and assist you with the reservations.

The islands Sulwesi afford a lot of land trips and the best diving around Bunaken Nationalpark and the “Lembeh Street” or by the islands Banka and Selayar.

The celebratet dive spot “Lembeh Street” is for example one hour’s drive from Manado away and is near from the harbour Bitung with the upstream island Lembeh. In this intense running water street you will find the best place for Muckdiving, a paradise for divers which are looking for very small and very rare fishes.

The Bunaken National Marinepark among to the best dive area in Asia and the whole world. Nowhere can you find a huger biodiversity on species as in the waters around Bunaken.

Land program

A Toraja round trip (from/to Ujung Pandang) of several days' duration guide the visitor trough the world of myth and deceased rituals. The Toraja Land has an own interest culture and it is a visit worth.

From Manado you can do a lot of nice tours. Behind Manado you will find the Minahasa Highland with volcano’s and rank green areas with many little villages. One of the most interested villages is Tomahon with his own local market. The Tangkoko Nationalpark you can arrive in one day. The Highlight is the smallest Monkey from south-east of Asia the “Tarsius”. Also you can find hornbills, other monkeys and with some luck you can observe a Python snake.

For prior or after programs and more information’s about round trips please visit the website www.schoener-tauchen.com