Borneja: Komodo Island

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Komodo Island

It was time to continue our travel. We decided to fly to Komodo Islands.

Komodo Islands are known for exquisite dive sites and of course, Komodo dragon. We wanted to experience both. We arrived to Flores Island, one of the islands in Komodo. Firstly we visited Wicked diving and booked our dives. They also promised to see a lot of mantas and of course, we were very excited. We were surprised how good and preserved their equipment was.

Banana pancakes for breakfast.

Once the diving was booked, we looked for accommodation and some good dining. We found a very good Italian restaurant Made in Italy. It is owned by Italian guy, who makes everything from scratch and uses only fresh ingredients. He also imports more than 80% ingredients from Italy, just to make his food authentic. Needless to say, it was our favorite place on the island.

Made in Italy

The next day we started with our dives. We had a very good guide Sarah from France, who made sure that we saw a lot of diverse underwater life. We visited several dive sites, like Siaba Besar, also known as Turtle city, where we saw 2,5 m long white tip reef shark and lots of turtles. We were very lucky and saw a barracuda, which came very close. At Makassar we dived in to only 12 m, where we saw schools of manta rays. Tatawa Besar had a very strong current, which Sarah described as medium. We jokingly called it a Medium French. We had a drift dive, where we saw a lot nudis and trigger fish. We also went to Mini Wall and Mauan, where we encountered manta rays again. At Sebayur Kecil we saw a black tip reef shark, humphead wrasse, mantis shrimp, box fish, baby box fish and a lobster. Unfortunately we didn't have an underwater camera to capture these beauties.