Greetings from Jakarta, Indonesia

[cliavn]

Hello all. I'm very lucky to live in a country with great reefs not too far away. I was also extremely lucky to have a juvenile whale shark swim within 2M of me a few months ago on a training dive for my MD. Any views on your favorite dive site and the most interesting thing you have seen?

 

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selamat datang di scubaboard

 

[Quero]

Where do you dive mostly, cliavn? I go to Indonesia quite frequently for diving (got two trips planned in the coming months), but I've never dived anywhere near Jakarta.

Oh, and welcome to SB!

 

[cliavn]

You don't want to dive near Jakarta but if you really do then there is the thousand islands that is a 2 hour boat trip away from Jakarta. Its not that great but it is where I spotted the whale shark. I mostly go to Raja Ampat and Manado. However Manado is getting crowded but lembeh straights is very close by and it has amazing muck diving.

 

[Quero]

Wow, you must originally be from someplace very big and very far away from SE Asia because otherwise you wouldn't call Manado and Sorong "close by" to Jakarta! Lucky you, though, to be able to dive there frequently. I sort of expected you to say you go for long weekends to Bali! I've been to Lembeh and Manado a number of times, to Raja Ampat once, and to Wakatobi once. I've been to Bali lots (it's a direct, nonstop flight from Phuket), and I'll be on Bali again in a couple of weeks and at Wakatobi again in a few months.

 

[cliavn]

Well its not close but it is a lot closer than it is for most of the people who go there .