Raja Ampat means ‘Four Kings’. In an archipelago of over 1,500 small islands, there are four main islands, or ‘kings’: Waigeo, Salawati, Batanta, and Misool. While the area looks quite small on the map, it’s indeed quite a large area with a huge variety of options for diving. This trip is heading to Misool & Dampier Strait
Date
March 20-29, 2026
Duration
09 nights/10 days
Package Cost
$6300 pp. USD per person: Lower Deck Twin (2 twin beds)
$6500 pp. USD per person: Lower Deck Double and Twin
$7000 pp. USD per person: Main Deck Master Suites – SOLD OUT
$7300 pp. USD per person: Upper Deck Master Suites – SOLD OUT
Note: All costs are in American Dollars (USD) for this trip
Exclusions
- Dive gear rental
- Massages
- Alcoholic beverages
- Park Fees: $315 per person (paid on-board)
- Airfares: International and Domestic
- Travel Insurance / DAN dive Insurance
- Crew tips
- Hotel in Sorong or Jakarta trip if required
- Onboard purchases
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Price Includes
- 9 nights/10 days onboard the beautiful vessel Coralia
- 3-4 dives a day (includes tanks and weights. Other equipment not included) Note: some days may be two dives depending on land excursion
- 3 meals a day plus snacks, water, tea, coffee and soft drinks
- Presentations on marine wildlife – manta rays, whales, sharks or coral
- Travel and explore with a marine biologist
- Photography and editing advice provided
- Friendly and fun atmosphere
- Certified dive guides and amazing cruise directors
- Limited to 8-16 including trip organiser
- Experience local culture
We had THE BEST TIME on the Coralia in 2023, 2024, 2025 and we’re doing it again in 2026!
Hop on board the beautiful Coralia liveaboard. The Coralia is a classic Phinisi. It was built in Bira, Sulawesi, by the Konjo tribe, who have been building cargo ships for centuries. Blending ancient techniques and wisdom with modern design and safety features, Coralia is one of the few Phinisi equipped with two engines.
Coralia’s name comes from the word ‘coral‘ and the Latin ending of ‘-ia’, so ‘Coral-ia‘ means ‘Nation of Corals’.
The Coralia has won the Dive Travel Awards “Best Liveaboard” in 2021 and 2024. (We now know WHY she and the crew won best liveaboard, because they ARE THE BEST)! We are venturing into Raja Ampat during what some would consider the off-season. What most don’t know, Raja IS diveable all year round, in certain areas.
Our itinerary will take us to dive sites in the Misool-Dampier area and the Dampier Strait. If the weather allows, we will try to head north towards Aljui Bay; however, we cannot guarantee we’ll be able to. To read more about our itinerary, click here.
How to secure your spot:
Please note that this trip has limited spots, so you will need to get in quick to secure your booking. $1000 USD is required.
The following payments will be required:
- $1000 USD deposit to secure your spot
- First payment due Sept 05, 2025
- Second payment due Dec 05, 2025
We will be in touch via email for your payment and trip details. We would recommend purchasing your flights into Jakarta (CGK) and then onto Sorong (SOQ), as soon as possible to secure reasonably priced flights. To book and check for available spaces, email us at: amanda@amandadelaforce.com
How to Get There
To/From North America:
Travel to Indonesia is typically flown via Tokyo, Hong Kong, or other Asian gateway cities (depending on the airline) and connecting onward to Jakarta (CGK). Sometimes you’ll find routes from the east coast through the Middle East (Doha or Abu Dhabi, etc.).
Arrival in Jakarta by March 19, 2026 (late afternoon at the latest). It is recommended to arrive in Jakarta a day prior to your flight to Sorong.
To/From Australia:
Travel to Indonesia is typically flown nonstop (from SYD) or with connecting flights via Singapore or Malaysia and connecting onward to Jakarta (CGK).
It is recommended to arrive in Jakarta a day prior to your flight to Sorong. Arrival in Jakarta by March 19, 2026 (late afternoon at the latest).
Flights to Sorong:
Connect onward to Sorong (SOQ). Most of the flights to Sorong are typically red-eyes from Jakarta. To avoid an overnight stay in Sorong, the current suggested flights are:
TBD The flight schedule is not yet published for March 2026. We will let you know when it is.
You will be met by Coralia staff, who will bring you directly to the boat. If you’d like to arrive in Sorong a day before, you are more than welcome, and the suggested hotel is the Aston Sorong Hotel. The Coralia staff will pick you up from the hotel and bring you to the boat on March 20, 2026.
Departure on March 29, 2026, can be at any time. The Coralia staff will bring you back to the airport for your departing flight. If you are continuing onto another resort or elsewhere in Raja Ampat, just let us know so we can coordinate with the Coralia team.
Flights on Garuda still offer 23 kg extra per person for dive gear. Be ready to show your scuba certification cards at check-in and show that your extra baggage is made up of dive equipment.
Please keep in mind that flying on early morning flights departing from Sorong will restrict the number of dives you will be able to do on the last full day on board. Generally, there will be two-morning dives on the last day, commencing around 12 p.m.
Note: The airline Air Asia is currently not recommended due to the frequent cancellations on Sorong flights.
Tentative Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Sorong, board the Coralia, settle into cabins, unpack dive gear/camera gear, boat briefing and dive briefing. Relax and enjoy the views as we head towards Misool.
Day 2-8:
- Sorong to Misool: Diving begins! Today we’ll start off with an easy checkout dive first thing in the morning. Return after diving for a big breakfast. Misool’s small surrounding islands are a soft-coral paradise and a famous part of Raja Ampat. With its abundance of stunning dive sites and the natural beauty of karst limestone and jungle-clad island. In the iconic areas of Boo, Fiabecet and Yuliet, we may look through the iconic Boo Windows, with tonnes of fish surrounding us. If we are lucky, we see the majestic giant and/or reef manta rays around here. Admire large coral heads covered in soft corals, maybe spotting the famous Santa Claus pygmy seahorse, while schools of barracudas.
- Misool – Dayang – Fam Islands: It is a long crossing up to Dayang, so on the last day of diving in Misool, we will do two dives before heading north.
- Yeben & Yangeffo: We will then head down again towards Yeben area. Expect beautiful coral bommies dotted around a white-sand bottom, which creates a unique scenery. These healthy, shallow reefs attract an enormous amount of reef fish and give shelter to cuttlefish blending in, with blacktip reef sharks patrolling around.
- Dampier Strait – Sorong. The remainder of our adventure will be spent diving in the famous Dampier Strait. Moving west to east in the Dampier Strait, we may visit dive sites around the islands of Arborek, Mansuar and Kri, where we hope to encounter schools of sweetlips, napoleon wrasse, bumphead parrotfish and the endemic tasselled wobbegong shark. Sawandarek village lies on Mansuar Island and offers a spectacular reef and jetty dive.
Day 9: Our last day of diving will offer 2 dives in the morning (pending flight schedules) and then begin our transit back to Sorong.
Day 10: We’ll say our “Good Byes” and disembark the Coralia for the Sorong Airport. You’ll be ready to book your next trip on Coralia after an amazing trip!
About Raja Ampat
- 600+ species of coral are found in Raja Ampat; the entire Caribbean Sea has only 58 species.
- 1,669 species of fish have been recorded to date (December 2019).
- 374 fish species were identified during one 90-minute dive at Cape Kri in Dampier Strait.
- 42 fish species are native to the region.
- 17 °C temperature range: the corals in Raja Ampat are regularly subjected to variations in temperatures from 19 (66 °F) to 36 (97 °F) degrees Celsius. The coral seems to be naturally adapted to massive fluctuations in temperature that are far higher than the ones predicted by climatologists over the next 50 years.
- Although there are over 300 different native languages spoken in Indonesia, the official language is Bahasa Indonesia.
Bookings, Payment, Cancellation Policy and Force Majeure in relation to the Tour
- Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd. highly recommends you purchase travel and dive insurance as soon as possible after confirming your travel plans. We recommend Dive Assure, or DAN, for diving insurance. Dive Assure offers dive and travel insurance, both annual and short-term (per trip). You can purchase it here.
- Evidence of adequate travel and dive insurance must be provided prior to departure.
- Bookings made more than 100 days out from the start of a trip require a deposit of $800.00 USD per passenger.
- All deposits are non-refundable.
- Bookings made less than 100 days out from tour commencement require payment in full to secure your booking.
- Payment in full is required 100 days out from the start of the trip. We will email you a final payment reminder. No refunds will be given within 100 days of the start of any trip, under any circumstances.
- If you cancel your spot more than 100 days before the start of a trip and we/you are able to resell or fill the spot, a trip credit for your remaining balance (minus a $300 USD service fee deducted) will be issued for use on another Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd. trip within 2 years of the cancellation.
- If you cancel your spot less than 99 days prior to the start of a trip, no refund or credit will be issued for deposits that have been paid.
- If our In-Country Providers cancel or if a Force Majeure Event occurs, meaning any act of God, war, terrorism, fire, flood or any other extreme weather conditions, loss of power, epidemics or pandemics, industrial disputes, slow-downs or other strike activities, riots or civil disturbances, acts of government, semi government or other authorities, inability to obtain any necessary license or consent and delays caused by sub-contractors, suppliers or other third parties (including telecommunications carriers), material shortages or other disruption to the trip beyond our control, Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd. shall not be held responsible for matters outside of our control or any failure to deliver the trip.
- The affiliated and established company, such as Coralia, holds the relevant insurance and maintains responsibility for the dive and snorkel insurance policies and procedures. As such, when in the water diving, snorkeling, or swimming, you are diving under the affiliated company’s policies and procedures and must adhere to either the captain, dive instructor, or divemaster’s instructions.
- Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd. takes no responsibility for loss, damage, or injury arising from any shortfall, error, or omission in the information passed to the customer during the course of the sale or subsequent delivery of the product. The company takes no responsibility nor can be held liable for loss, damage, or injury that occurs on a supplier’s or service provider’s premises or transport, or between two such premises.
- Participation in any of the activities involves certain risks, which may result in injury or death. This warning does not purport to describe or disclose all the risks associated with participation in the activities. There are a wide range of inherent risks when engaging in sports, particularly underwater sports; for example, with diving, there is the risk of decompression sickness, embolism, or other hyperbaric injuries that require treatment in a recompression chamber. Open-water scuba diving trips may be conducted at sites that are remote, either by time or distance, from emergency services or recompression facilities. Scuba diving, snorkeling, and tours will involve uncontrolled encounters with wild animals, which bears the risk of stings, bites, and, at the extreme end, more serious injury and death. Participants should be responsible and aware of animal behaviors and their own interactions, and they should engage in these activities entirely at their own risk.
- We will not be liable to you in respect of any personal injury (including, without limitation, serious injury or death) that you may suffer or sustain directly or indirectly as a result of attending the trip or participating in the activities. Nor will we be liable to you in respect of any other losses arising as a result of any such personal injury (including, without limitation, loss of profit or earnings or other consequential losses). We will not be liable to you in respect of any of your personal property that is lost, stolen, or damaged before, during, or after a trip.
- Please ensure you understand our cancellation policy prior to providing any deposits and agree to the booking and trip. By placing a booking with Amanda Delaforce Photography and Travel Pty Ltd., this implies that you accept these booking terms and conditions and cancellation policy.
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