Raja Ampat
In the far west of West Papua, Raja Ampat (“Four Kings”) is widely considered the most biodiverse marine area on Earth. The numbers are absurd — over fifteen hundred species of reef fish, around six hundred species of coral — and the diving is correspondingly extraordinary. Logistics are not trivial: domestic flights via Sorong, then small boats to dive resorts or liveaboards. This is the trip you take when you have already done Indonesia’s easier islands and want the most remote, most rewarding water in the country.
