Route Description - Bali/Komodo/Bali (8 Days 7 Nights)
Mermaid Liveaboard, offer 8 days Komodo diving & snorkelling trip on Mermaid II. With many years of experience exploring Komodo National Park; we dive the best of the best, we know where and when it’s running! No wonder we have a high number of return guests who will also appreciate some new sites and experiences we can share through our extensive experience with Flores and Komodo National Park areas.
DAY 1
Check-in on board Mermaid between 13:00-15:00 hours at Benoa Harbour in Bali. You’ll set up equipment and you can settle into your cabin, and after we will do a boat and safety briefing. Dinner will be served at 19:00 hours as Mermaid cruises into the sunset on her overnight journey to Moyo Island, north west Sumbawa.
DAY 2
Start your adventure with a great dive in the calm, clear waters of Angel Reef at Moyo Island. Massive elephant ear and barrel sponges, schools of longfin bannerfish and red tooth triggerfish, frogfish, nudibranchs, eels, surgeonfish, snappers and dogtooth tuna. Afterwards, Mermaid will cruise for two and a half hours to Satonda Island for a fringing coral reef and a world-class night dive. After a great dive and dinner, she will cruise overnight to Komodo NP.
DAY 3
Mermaid will enter Komodo National Park. We will spend the day in the northern islands of Komodo NP, Gili Lawa Laut and Gili Lawa Darat. We will cruise to central Komodo for a night dive at Soro Lia or Wainilu in order to do a muck night dive - a great place to spend the night.
DAY 4
We will cruise south of Komodo Island to Manta Alley and Horseshoe Bay in Rinca Island. Spectacular diving await at the world famous site Cannibal Rock – rare nudibranchs, frogfish, spectacular corals, sponges, ascidians, huge black coral bushes, turtles, cuttlefish, loads of reef fish too Watch dragons on the beach, monkey, deer, wild pigs along the shore…. Maybe even a chance to see dolphins feeding in the calm bay
DAY 5
Start your day with an exciting visit to Komodo National Park to walk with the dragons! Then we will do 3 dives in the Lintah Strait looking for some big fish dives at Tatawa Besar, Siaba Kecil or the infamous “Current City” Batu Bolong. Come face to face with reef sharks, turtles, Napoleon wrasse and more. After Night dive at Gili Lawa Darat, it is time to say goodbye to Komodo National Park.
DAY 6
Mermaid will make her way to Gili Banta for a morning dive and the we will start cruising to Sangeang Volcano to spend the rest of the day, black sand, bubbles, colourful reefs and tones of critters will be waiting for you. Overnight we cruise to Sumbawa Island
DAY 7
You will enjoy two fantastic dives at Sumbawa and Moyo Islands for more chances for ghost pipe fish, ribbon eels, turtle, cuttlefish and more before cruising overnight to Benoa in the south of Bali.
DAY 8
Disembark at Benoa Harbour after breakfast at 8 am.
This is a sample itinerary and is subject to changes beyond the operator’s control. The exact itinerary, route and amount of dives for your cruise may be adapted to best suit the weather conditions, tides and currents, season and other prevailing events.