Alor Island Diving Liveaboard Travel Guides
Diving Alor is an area around the island of Alor and Pantar, and the islands inside the Pantar strait: Pura, Buaya, Ternate, Kumba. These are the prime diving areas.
Alor is good for both beginners and advanced divers. There are cave and cavern filled walls with dramatic topography, in a very quiet fishing village in Pura island. No current here but full of 'OW!'s and 'WOW!'s. Also available is the dive site called 'Kal's dream'. Kal Muller is a famous Hugarian Borned ethnologist who study the tribes in West Papua Indonesia. This is his dream site and what a site it is! 2M long Dog-toothed Tunas patrolled this underwater mount, along with eagle ray
s, silver tip sharks, grey reef sharks, barracudas, and napoleon wrass. This site though, is reserved for advanced divers only as current can get a bit rough at times.
Many critters for the macro divers This location is reputablly one of the best in Asia.
Many of the sites are perfectly vertical coral walls going down to 50~60 meters, with 30+ meters vis being common during the good months (May till November/December)
10 Days 09 Nights Alor Dive Liveaboard
Day 1 : Maumere
Flight from Bali to Maumere. You will be picked 
up by our representative and transfer to your waiting vessel KLM Bulan Purnama. Our first event of this expedition will be a special welcome lunch prepared aboard. As this culinary experience is completed, your vessel will set sail for Lamalera famous of is Whale Hunting Culture, on the far eastern end of Flores before entering the Alor Group of Islands.
Day 2 : Lamalera
Larantaka is a village dedicated to the traditional hunting of sperm whales and other whales. This hunting is carried out from small rowing boats with a small and simple sail. The harpooner literally jumps from the bow digging the harpoon in the whale with his weight. The villagers make good use of every single part of the whale body and their culture is completely impregnated with rites and superstitions. Whale's teeth, harpoons forged by hand and fabrics with marine motives, like whales, manta rays and turtles can be bought directly to the artistic villagers. After a day of exploration of the area of Lamalera, we will set sail again this evening for the Alor Group of Islands.
Day 4 : Komba
Very early in the morning we will drop anchor at a secluded spot and after breakfast a day of relaxation will start. We will plan a comfortable first dive at a selected location to test your diving skills. We will try to visit the best in this area, .Famous for its Sarbete reef and wall.
Day 5 & 6 : Ternate, Reta, Pura, Pantar
We are in a closely clustered area here and many comfortable anchorages can be found. We will try to cover the best of the best and provide only the best stops for a good dive, great beach and potentials for land based explorations.
You could cover quite many dive sites for these two days. In Ternate, dive site named The Arch, a beautiful place where on the wall huge underwater cervices form a large arch at about 20 to 30 meter. There are whip corals and gorgonians growing here. On some of the over 3 meter long whip corals you might find the rare coral shrimp (Pontonides sp.). Another famous dive site is Babylon: good site for nudibranchs encounter. Also, Coral Cliffs, a steep wall with a lot of whip corals, some 3 to 4 meter long. 
Furthermore, in Reta and Pura, there are many famous dive sites called Sharks
Galore Clown Valley and Boardroom: This is a very good dive site for small critters like Mandarin dragonets, scorpionfishes and pegasus sea moths. Another dive site at Pura is north of the Jetty where actually you could still see some bubbles coming out from a volcanic source.
Day 7 : Lamakera and Adonara
The Northern area of these islands will be sheltered for this winds which are presently coming out of the East and we can surely find a comfortable anchorage for relaxed evenings and a day of beaching. A few dive sites called Sea Apple Slopes: This is a good place to find the rare filter-feeding sea cucumbers called sea apple (Pseudocolochirus violaceus). This cucumber is round and of a bright red and purple color with white or yellow stripes and can also be found in the Komodo and Rinca islands. Pan Abang: This is the best place for small animals such as the wonderpus, mimic octopus, Rhinopias, ghostpipefishes, spearing mantis shrimp, frogfish, devil fish, pegasus and colemanshrimp.
Day 8 : Sarbete
Having moved the vessel overnight, we have selected this island as it is starting our track back to maumere slowly. Dives in this area are also excellent.
Day 9 : Pulau Babi
Again by early morning we will be at a comfortable anchorage with a pristine beach and a perfect location for our final dive and beach day.
½ day diving in this area.Dive sites like Paham, Wadang are one of the most famous dive sites in Pulau Babi. In the late evening we will set sail for Maumere
Day 10 : Maumere
By early morning we will be in the harbor of Maumere and prepare for disembarkation and transfer to the airport for your flight to your next destination
For Reservation, Flight confirmation and diving Packages please write to: info@lombokmarine.com
