The absolute madness: Liveaboard in Komodo National Park

Since we were diving with 10 dives in 4 days and 3 nights and enjoying more underwater and talking less, this blog can also do with fewer words... ;-)

Just so much for everyone who is interested: At the starting point in Labuan Bajo itself, there is not much more than 100 'different' tour operators to the dragons and a diving school next to each other, which all offer liveaboards and day trips. Therefore, this is actually only recommended for these tours and staying longer is rather unusual...

We booked everything a few days in advance at Wicked Divers. It includes 10 dives in the national park, food & drinks and a trip to the dragons on Rinca Island. The days always run the same way: Wake up, 1st breakfast, diving, 2nd breakfast, diving, lunch, diving, snack and then either night dive or beach clean-up and then dinner... In summary: It was great! :-D

For those who have dealt with diving in the national park, they know that Komodo is known for its strong currents. But there are also different dive sites here.. And it's just a lot of fun to dive with strong currents.. However, you should not go directly to the full/new moon, as you cannot reach some dive sites due to strong currents...

And yes, a liveaboard is a completely different experience than day trips to the respective areas... Sitting together in the evening, listening to/making music, looking at the stars, sleeping on the boat and waking up in the morning and looking out to the sea... It's just beautiful <3 and it won't be the last time for us - Raja Ampat, we're already saving ;-)

On the evening before the tour and afterwards we had dinner at the local fish market - also highly recommended! Clem was busy ordering because everything looked so good!!! .. but it was also strange to see the fish lying on the plate that had winked at us underwater the day before...

But now finally the pictures!!!

And for those who want to see some videos, here is a link to Clem's channel on YouTube, where we uploaded a few diving videos ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZEz1nkSAqoBJzecRrGGNA

Enjoy watching!

So those were the impressions from Komodo National Park! From here, we went to Borneo to expand our list of monkeys, hopefully adding orangutans and proboscis monkeys.. Stay tuned!

Many greetings to home - we are looking forward to seeing all of you! Only less than 10 days left - time is flying :-)

Thea&Clem <3