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Hi travelem, how often did Liquid salt organising trip to Hanifaru?
Since Dharavandhoo is only 5 minutes by boat from Hanifaru Bay, Liquid salt sends a boat to check if there is manta in the bay everyday, sometimes twice a day (morning and afternoon).
Once they found mantas in the bay, they would ask you to jump in the boat for manta snorkeling.
Biosphere Inn's room conditions are so-so. I plan to stay in Hanifaru transit Inn next time.
If you want more comfort, Aveyla manta village is next to bikini beach and is the best hotel on island.
All three hotels are partnered with Liquid salt dive shop.
Aveyla manta village and Liquid salt dive shop have the same owner.
I noticed that another dive shop (Dharavandhoo Divers) has more divers on boat. I saw they had more than 10 divers on boat.
When I dived with Liquid Salt, there were 2 to 5 divers on boat for that week. We went to the cleaning station everyday and saw a few mantas everyday. I almost had the mantas by myself. If going with another dive shop, there were more divers, I am afraid I would had seen more divers than mantas underwater.
The tiger zoo is also my next target.
I am also so disappointed about the shut down of the HKdiver forum.
There is another HK diving group on facebook with more than 16000 members:
香港潛水 Hong Kong Diving
Nice stuff, thank you!