Who dove in Dongala? ( Prince John resort )

[hallboy]

Diving is suposed to be great, but no A/C, no hot water....
How is the flight from balikpapan to Palu?

 

[kilo_fox]

How is the flight from balikpapan to Palu?

It's a 45 min. flight. AFAIK, only Batavia Airlines does that trip, daily though.

.....I'm not too sure though if I got your question right!?

 

[hallboy]

Yes

Did you dove there?

 

[Bora_Horza]

For what it's worth, I spent about a week at Tanjung Karang (the beach near Dongala) back in 2002. I was not a diver at the time, but I enjoyed going out on the Prince John boat snorkelling with the divers. A beautiful area, with some good white sand beaches, palm trees, and a nice coral reef in front of Prince John resort. When I was there no electricity at the bungalows I stayed at (apart from resteraunt area), just kerosene lamps. This was at Natural Cottages, a very simple resort. The Prince John resort looked quite good to me, but I was looking for the cheaper backpacker thing!

I can't say much about the diving, except that I saw great corals snorkelling, and the divers on the boat enjoyed themselves, and talked about sharks. We had dolphins at the bow of the boat, saw sea eagles, jumping sailfish, monkeys in the forest on an island, etc.. I had a good time there.

Natural Cottages:

 

[kilo_fox]

Yes

Did you dove there?

Belum (not yet). But looking at Bora_Horza's pix - wanna go there NOW!!