Indonesia Diving

A country with countless far flung islands, Indonesia has developed resorts in tandem with the establishment of regular air connections and in many of these diving and snorkeling are given priority. Indonesia's spectacular underwater world includes some of the best diving on earth. It is the superb reefs and magnificent aquatic life which attract the international diving community to Indonesia's crystal seas. Liveaboards have also made their debut and offer visitors the chance to dive really remote areas.

The thousands of Indonesian islands are spread out over mainly an equatorial tropical climate, but the diving season is as complex as everything else about this diverse amalgam of a country. Avoid the wet monsoon season, generally December through mid-March. The dry monsoon of southeast winds curtails the diving in Flores during July and August. The Moluccas, however, have their wet monsoons the reverse of everyone else, in July and August, and diving should be avoided then. Depending on your specific destination, April-May and September are the best all-round months to dive Indonesia.

The floating emerald islands of the Indonesian archipelago have for centuries lured everyone from missionaries to pirates, mining companies and backpackers to their sandalwood and spice breezes, their Bali Hai lifestyle and their magnificent beaches, mountains and volcanoes.