Hi Folks: with the rainy season falling upon us in our part of the world, most of the dive sites we have in Indonesia are out of season; either still diveable but not the best time to visit, or not dive-able at all.
However, there are some sites which happens to be their best season to dive.
Here to introduce 4 sites and their rates:
(1) GORONTALO DIVING
We are pleased to offer diving in the equatorial waters of Gorontalo. For divers this is a brand new dive destination on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Gorontalo Province lies along the northern coastline of the huge Tomini Bay. In much of eastern Gorontalo, towering limestone cliffs plunge directly into the sea, which were once ancient reefs. A narrow, shallow coral shelf rims the coastline. Often this shelf is only a few meters wide and bottoms out within a few meters of the surface where the wall begins. The coral walls of Gorontalo provide diving at par with other locations in North Sulawesi.
Because of its limestone base, the wall is highly eroded by natural forces. This makes for some of the most complex underwater rock formations found anywhere. The wall itself is chocked full of holes, crevasses, fissures, and shallow caves. The first wall bottoms out in the 30 to 40 meter range. The waters then fall to 120 meters before plunging again. While traveling to a dive site, divers pass over seas between 500 and 1,000 meters deep.
Tomini Bay itself is over 4,000 meters deep. Because of the extreme depth right off Gorontalo's coastline, cetaceans pass just off the wall, including the huge Sei whale, False killer whale, and pods of ghostly Risso's dolphin.
Dive sites pioneered in Gorontalo offers muck diving, wall diving, wreck diving, and multiple pinnacle diving. Numerous shallow caves and towering overhangs give divers an eerie but safe alternative. Our dive season starts from November to April.
Typically, we offer two-tank morning diving with your return to the Oasis in time for lunch. We can arrange diving to suit your needs and interests.
Diversity Package (A/C)
4 nights @ Gorontalo Oasis Hotel (air-conditioned room & breakfast)
6 dives (tanks, weights, bottled water, transport)
Airport pick up & drop off in Gorontalo
Excluding air fares, most meals, dive equipment
Promotional rate: USD195 twin share including tax
Diversity Plus: two additional third dives USD235
Single supplement: USD50
Equatorial Package (A/C)
7 nights @ Gorontalo Oasis Hotel (air-conditioned room & breakfast)
12 dives (tanks, weights, bottled water, transport)
Airport pick up & drop off in Gorontalo
Excluding air fares, most meals, dive equipment
Promotional rate: USD350 twin share including tax
Single supplement: USD90
Third dives available at USD20 per dive
*Although some diving packages are built around existing flight or boat schedules, we are in no way responsible for changes in these schedules.
*The flying-after-diving interval on our packages is about 20 hours.
*For dive equipment rental, guests should confirm sizes in advance.
(2) Selayar Dive Resort
What is really special about the island of Selayar is its secluded position, far away from any mass tourism, in the Celebes sea in the South of the Indonesian island Sulawesi. A maritime national park was created in the middle of the Indo-Pacific, which is well known for its richness of species and makes diving a special experience. The whole east side of the island, where the resort is situated, is surrounded with a reef so that house reef diving gets a new dimenson.
The resort is sited on the southeastern end of the island, surrounded by rain forest, on a 1km long white sandy beach. The originality of the landscape around the resort was preserved, behind the resort rise huge primeval forest trees. We have 8 spacious bungalows with a veranda. Every guest has his own piece of beach in front of his door. Through a shaded glass front you have a fantastic view of palm trees and sea, even from your bed. The bathrooms with hot and cold water are equiped according to European standards. In the bungalows you have 220 V shock-proof sockets.
The dive sites, mostly steep walls, are full of overhangs and small caves, but also slopes and an underwater mountain are not far from the resort. With good reason we can say that through creating the naval national park, our dive sites offer a great variety of fish. Coral gardens cover walls and slopes. In no ocean of the world live more species than in the Indo-Pacific. So it’s no wonder, that you might see everything from pygmy seahorses to hammerheads under water. March/April you have the best chance to see big fish, especially hammerheads.
A typical dive in the resort is determined by the tides – no fixed times, nature influences our rhythm – fish are not interested in time. For that reason we always try to use the current to have an ideal underwater experience. In betweeen the dives, we offer twice a day, we usually retourn to the resort in order to make a surface break. Of course the staff look after the equipment. Every guest can plan further dives at the house reef from the beach which are of course free.
5 night package from Bali:
DAY1 (Sunday) Flight from Bali ETD 09.00, ETA in Makassar 10.20. Transfer to Pantai Gapura water bungalow.
DAY2 (Monday) Pickup from hotel for flight to Selayar ETD 08.00. Arriving in the resort around 12.30.One boat dive and unlimited beach dive.
DAY3~Day5 2boat dives a day and unlimited beach dive.
DAY6 (Friday) Fly to Makassa ETD 09.00. Connect to Bali ETD 17.00.
DIVER PACKAGE PRICE:
AC ROOM= €805/diver/Dbl occupancy
NON-AC ROOM= €745/diver/Dbl occupancy
NON-DIVER PACKAGE PRICE:
Dbl occupancy = €625/pax
*Included: - R/T from Bali-Makassar-Bali and Makssar-Selayar-Makassar - All transfers - 1 night accommodation in Makassar - dives as stated above for divers - tax and service charge - Full board
NOT INCLUDED:
- INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT - DAY 1 FOOD & BEVERAGE - DIVE EQUIPMENT - TRAVEL INSURANCE - ISLAND TOUR - DAY TRIP TO TAKABONERATE
- OTHER EXPENSES - TIPS
*The above rates is valid until Dec 31, 2005
(3) RAJA AMPAT
[KRI ECO RESORT-FAN ROOM]
Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €805/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €1055
[SORIDO BAY RESORT(AC ROOM)]
{SENTANI ROOM-65m2} Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €1400/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €1650
{WAIRUNDI ROOM-84m2} Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €1750/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €2000
{KAIMANA ROOM-90m2} Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €1925/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €2175
[[INCLUDE]]Guide, boat, Tank, weight, 3meals a day in resort, tea/coffee/mineral water, tax+service charge
[[NOT INCLUDED]] Airline Ticket, Airport tax, Tip, Personal item, dive equipment [[NOTE]] *No diving on saturdays, but you can go snorkeling, kayaking or hiking **The above rates are based starting on Sunday and ends on Sunday, transfers on all otherdays will be charged extra
***All rates are based on Euro, rates in USD may change anytime due to change in exchange rate
(4) South Komodo Live-aboard
9 days 8 nights all inclusive package
(Day1)Pick-up from Bali airport/check-in at hotel at AC room
(Day2)Pick-up from hotel and send to airport/ flight to Bima/ land transfer to harbour/ check-in boat/ 1 dive today
(Day3)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day4)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day5)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day6)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day7)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day8)2 dives today and returning to harbour
(Day9)Land transfer to airport/ flight to Bali/ end of trip
Included: ALL AC Accommodation on boat and hotel/ All meal on board/ Tanks and weights/ Dive guide/ 1st night hotel AC room/ Airport transer 1st day, 2day morning/ Land transfer Bima-Harbour-Bima/ Bali-Bima-Bali domestic airfare/ All taxes and service charges/ Nett Based on double occupancy
Not included: Tips/ Insurance/ Dive gear/ Personal Items/ Soft drink/ Beer/ Airport tax/ First day meals and drinks / Luggage overweight fee
**Please contact us if you have other needs and re. departure dates
ALL FOR US$1565 per diver based on double occupancy.
FOR ENQUIRIES:
Blue Planet Dives & Tours
Bali, Indonesia
TEL: +62-361-744-5418
HP: +62-8123632057
FAX: +62-361-731525
EMAIL: blueplanetbali@indo.net.id
However, there are some sites which happens to be their best season to dive.
Here to introduce 4 sites and their rates:
(1) GORONTALO DIVING
We are pleased to offer diving in the equatorial waters of Gorontalo. For divers this is a brand new dive destination on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Gorontalo Province lies along the northern coastline of the huge Tomini Bay. In much of eastern Gorontalo, towering limestone cliffs plunge directly into the sea, which were once ancient reefs. A narrow, shallow coral shelf rims the coastline. Often this shelf is only a few meters wide and bottoms out within a few meters of the surface where the wall begins. The coral walls of Gorontalo provide diving at par with other locations in North Sulawesi.
Because of its limestone base, the wall is highly eroded by natural forces. This makes for some of the most complex underwater rock formations found anywhere. The wall itself is chocked full of holes, crevasses, fissures, and shallow caves. The first wall bottoms out in the 30 to 40 meter range. The waters then fall to 120 meters before plunging again. While traveling to a dive site, divers pass over seas between 500 and 1,000 meters deep.
Tomini Bay itself is over 4,000 meters deep. Because of the extreme depth right off Gorontalo's coastline, cetaceans pass just off the wall, including the huge Sei whale, False killer whale, and pods of ghostly Risso's dolphin.
Dive sites pioneered in Gorontalo offers muck diving, wall diving, wreck diving, and multiple pinnacle diving. Numerous shallow caves and towering overhangs give divers an eerie but safe alternative. Our dive season starts from November to April.
Typically, we offer two-tank morning diving with your return to the Oasis in time for lunch. We can arrange diving to suit your needs and interests.
Diversity Package (A/C)
4 nights @ Gorontalo Oasis Hotel (air-conditioned room & breakfast)
6 dives (tanks, weights, bottled water, transport)
Airport pick up & drop off in Gorontalo
Excluding air fares, most meals, dive equipment
Promotional rate: USD195 twin share including tax
Diversity Plus: two additional third dives USD235
Single supplement: USD50
Equatorial Package (A/C)
7 nights @ Gorontalo Oasis Hotel (air-conditioned room & breakfast)
12 dives (tanks, weights, bottled water, transport)
Airport pick up & drop off in Gorontalo
Excluding air fares, most meals, dive equipment
Promotional rate: USD350 twin share including tax
Single supplement: USD90
Third dives available at USD20 per dive
*Although some diving packages are built around existing flight or boat schedules, we are in no way responsible for changes in these schedules.
*The flying-after-diving interval on our packages is about 20 hours.
*For dive equipment rental, guests should confirm sizes in advance.
(2) Selayar Dive Resort
What is really special about the island of Selayar is its secluded position, far away from any mass tourism, in the Celebes sea in the South of the Indonesian island Sulawesi. A maritime national park was created in the middle of the Indo-Pacific, which is well known for its richness of species and makes diving a special experience. The whole east side of the island, where the resort is situated, is surrounded with a reef so that house reef diving gets a new dimenson.
The resort is sited on the southeastern end of the island, surrounded by rain forest, on a 1km long white sandy beach. The originality of the landscape around the resort was preserved, behind the resort rise huge primeval forest trees. We have 8 spacious bungalows with a veranda. Every guest has his own piece of beach in front of his door. Through a shaded glass front you have a fantastic view of palm trees and sea, even from your bed. The bathrooms with hot and cold water are equiped according to European standards. In the bungalows you have 220 V shock-proof sockets.
The dive sites, mostly steep walls, are full of overhangs and small caves, but also slopes and an underwater mountain are not far from the resort. With good reason we can say that through creating the naval national park, our dive sites offer a great variety of fish. Coral gardens cover walls and slopes. In no ocean of the world live more species than in the Indo-Pacific. So it’s no wonder, that you might see everything from pygmy seahorses to hammerheads under water. March/April you have the best chance to see big fish, especially hammerheads.
A typical dive in the resort is determined by the tides – no fixed times, nature influences our rhythm – fish are not interested in time. For that reason we always try to use the current to have an ideal underwater experience. In betweeen the dives, we offer twice a day, we usually retourn to the resort in order to make a surface break. Of course the staff look after the equipment. Every guest can plan further dives at the house reef from the beach which are of course free.
5 night package from Bali:
DAY1 (Sunday) Flight from Bali ETD 09.00, ETA in Makassar 10.20. Transfer to Pantai Gapura water bungalow.
DAY2 (Monday) Pickup from hotel for flight to Selayar ETD 08.00. Arriving in the resort around 12.30.One boat dive and unlimited beach dive.
DAY3~Day5 2boat dives a day and unlimited beach dive.
DAY6 (Friday) Fly to Makassa ETD 09.00. Connect to Bali ETD 17.00.
DIVER PACKAGE PRICE:
AC ROOM= €805/diver/Dbl occupancy
NON-AC ROOM= €745/diver/Dbl occupancy
NON-DIVER PACKAGE PRICE:
Dbl occupancy = €625/pax
*Included: - R/T from Bali-Makassar-Bali and Makssar-Selayar-Makassar - All transfers - 1 night accommodation in Makassar - dives as stated above for divers - tax and service charge - Full board
NOT INCLUDED:
- INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT - DAY 1 FOOD & BEVERAGE - DIVE EQUIPMENT - TRAVEL INSURANCE - ISLAND TOUR - DAY TRIP TO TAKABONERATE
- OTHER EXPENSES - TIPS
*The above rates is valid until Dec 31, 2005
(3) RAJA AMPAT
[KRI ECO RESORT-FAN ROOM]
Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €805/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €1055
[SORIDO BAY RESORT(AC ROOM)]
{SENTANI ROOM-65m2} Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €1400/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €1650
{WAIRUNDI ROOM-84m2} Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €1750/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €2000
{KAIMANA ROOM-90m2} Package price for 1 week, incl. 10 dives= €1925/ Package price for 1 week, incl. 20 dives= €2175
[[INCLUDE]]Guide, boat, Tank, weight, 3meals a day in resort, tea/coffee/mineral water, tax+service charge
[[NOT INCLUDED]] Airline Ticket, Airport tax, Tip, Personal item, dive equipment [[NOTE]] *No diving on saturdays, but you can go snorkeling, kayaking or hiking **The above rates are based starting on Sunday and ends on Sunday, transfers on all otherdays will be charged extra
***All rates are based on Euro, rates in USD may change anytime due to change in exchange rate
(4) South Komodo Live-aboard
9 days 8 nights all inclusive package
(Day1)Pick-up from Bali airport/check-in at hotel at AC room
(Day2)Pick-up from hotel and send to airport/ flight to Bima/ land transfer to harbour/ check-in boat/ 1 dive today
(Day3)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day4)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day5)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day6)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day7)Up to 3 day dives and 1 night dive
(Day8)2 dives today and returning to harbour
(Day9)Land transfer to airport/ flight to Bali/ end of trip
Included: ALL AC Accommodation on boat and hotel/ All meal on board/ Tanks and weights/ Dive guide/ 1st night hotel AC room/ Airport transer 1st day, 2day morning/ Land transfer Bima-Harbour-Bima/ Bali-Bima-Bali domestic airfare/ All taxes and service charges/ Nett Based on double occupancy
Not included: Tips/ Insurance/ Dive gear/ Personal Items/ Soft drink/ Beer/ Airport tax/ First day meals and drinks / Luggage overweight fee
**Please contact us if you have other needs and re. departure dates
ALL FOR US$1565 per diver based on double occupancy.
FOR ENQUIRIES:
Blue Planet Dives & Tours
Bali, Indonesia
TEL: +62-361-744-5418
HP: +62-8123632057
FAX: +62-361-731525
EMAIL: blueplanetbali@indo.net.id
