Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me begin to tell you a tale about a land called Indonesia and magical places with names like Sulawesi, the Lembeh Strait and Manado… Once upon a time there lived a young man who liked to scuba dive. One day he met a kindly old...
Snorkelling on the incredible walls of Bunaken The park was formally established at Bunaken in 1991 and was among the first of Indonesia's growing system of marine parks. The park measures in at just under 80,000 hectares of land (3%) and sea (97%), located in Manado...
Celebes, the 'Spice Island' is an oddly shaped island in the north of Indonesia and is home to world-famous dive destinations such as the Lembeh Strait, Bunaken and Bangka (all near Manado), and Wakatobi - places high on the wishlist of scuba divers everywhere....
Spread over a 90 km stretch in the middle of Tomini Bay in Central Sulawesi, the winding, hilly coastlines and equatorial waters of the Togean Islands cast a magical spell of green, yellow and blue, in all the shades imaginable. A local boat in the clear waters of the...
A cultural alternative in northern Sulawesi, Gorontalo City is the capital of the new Gorontalo Province and nestles on the calm waters of the northern shoreline of Tomini Bay, on the southern fringe of Sulawesi's protective northern arm. Here the weather is balmy and...
A pygmy seahorse in Lembeh. Photo courtesy: Bastianos Muck diving. It doesn't sound great does it? It certainly doesn't conjure up images of tropical blue water diving with sharks and rays and colourful coral. But for those in the know, muck diving is where it's at....