Was a great trip! We should all do another one soon….👍🏻

Terima kasih Pak!

Papua is paradise!

Thank you for the nice comment! Have a great day.

So true!

Thanks Ferin! You know those sharks are not in fast forward! They were feeding so zooming around like rockets! Have a great day!!!

Thanks a lot! Appreciate your comment!

Hey Friend!! So sorry for the late reply; i just returned back from UK! You are right.. there are few places that have to be visited once , and Misool is one for sure. You can do a 10 day liveaboard, which would include Misool and see both North and South Raja Ampat. Or a week in Misool and a week near Kri (recommend Papua Paradise). I stayed seven days in Misool. The good point of staying there is you can visit Magic Mountain numerous times, visit Jelly Fish Lake, and the Black Tip Shark Nursery etc.. Again you are right... Misool is not cheap, due to it's isolation. You could visit in November when the sardines are around in enormous schools, attracting huge amounts of modular rays and oceanic sharks! Something i missed as we went in April. Anything i can help with don't hesitate to ask! Speak again soon!

Thanks a lot! You should; you would not regret it!

Thank you for the nice comment. Misool Eco resort is the only resort in the whole area... i flew from Singapore to Jakarta then Jakarta to Sorong. From Sorong the resort has a nice boat which takes about 4 hours to get there. All food etc is included in the package. Have a great day and let me know if you need any other info.

Hi Nicolas, Thanks for the kind comment! Gosh, that is a tough question. Both resorts are great. Papua Paradise had amazing food when i was there. But they also took you to any dive site you wanted; you basically created your own dive schedule. It did not matter if only you wanted to visit a site alone; they would take you. At Misool the diving agenda was more organised. However after a bit of debate i did get them to take us to Magic Mountain more than the scheduled times. Both of amazing house reefs which i use to snorkel after the days diving. At Papua Paradise i did have Dugongs around my water bungalow on some mornings, which was a special treat. The house restaurant was also surrounded by juvenille black tip sharks in the evening too. I preferred the water bungalow at Papua Paradise and the bird life there was amazing too. Jelly Fish lake at Misool was an amazing day trip. You travel through a maze of tiny islands which is breathtaking. The lake is isolated and surrounded by forest and vegetation. It is quite an experience. Both are quiet but where Misool is located is totally uninhabited. If you go when the liveaboard season is over, you wont see any boats. Both have amazing Macro too and lots of sharks. I even saw many bull sharks at Misool. I have another video on you tube of just the blacktips feeding at Misool. It is at a isolated beach that they stop off at for lunch on a day trip. Misool has a faster boat from Sorong now and when i went Papua Paradise i had to wait in a hotel for 6 hours for the transfer boat which i really did not like . For night diving, i prefered Misool. But as you know it can be a lottery! So as you can see, hard to choose between the two!!! : )

Hi, i think it would be a perfect location. The house reef is only 2 to 3m before the drop off and is full of sharks, turtles, napoleon fish etc.. In fact when i stayed there there were more people snorkelling than diving and they saw everything: Oceanic Mantas, Sharks etc... they even saw a school of hundreds of rays. Something that i missed!!! There are are also many snorkelling /freediving sites. I hope this helps.

No! Its fine... around the huts the snorkelling is fantastic. There are black tips around but they will totally ignore you! Its an amazing place for snorkelling, where you see giant Manta and many other fantastic things!

I love Papua.. yes Peace for Papua