Apr 15 – Apr 25, 2028

subject to change without prior notice, at the discretion of cruise director and captain Day 1: Arrive to the ILIKE at Babang Day 2: Goriachi Islands Day 3: Goriachi Islands Day 4: Patintie Strait, Saleh Kecil Island Day 5: Pisang Island Day 6: Misool Pelee and Wayilbatan Island Day 7: Misool Daram Island Day 8: Misool Fiabacet and Boo Island Day 9: Penemu, Dampier Strait Day 10: Dampier Strait Day 11: Disembark ILIKE at Sorong port Arriving to Halmahera in the port of Babang, we first move a little North to the Goraichi Islands. This is a system of islands right at the edge of the Molucca sea offering a big diversity in Macro or big pelagic. The islands are famous for their pristine reefs, which are teeming with vibrant hard and soft corals. Divers can encounter a diverse array of marine life, including schools of fish, sharks, and manta rays. The Goraichi Islands are known for their excellent environmental conservation efforts, which have helped maintain the health and beauty of their reefs. This makes the diving experience here particularly special, as the underwater ecosystems are in excellent condition. The dive sites around Goraichi feature stunning underwater landscapes, including slopes, walls, and pinnacles, providing a range of different of diving experiences. Then in the heart of Halmahera, we find a channel in the Patintie Strait where pinnacles and coral formations are different due to currents being funnelled through the channel as two seas meet. Saleh Kecil is a small island in the strait and has impressive coral formations, gentle slopes, and vibrant marine life, ranging from macro critters to large pelagic species. The biodiversity here is astounding, with regular sightings of reef sharks, barracudas, and colorful schools of fish. On our way to Raja Ampat, Pulau Pisang is a mandatory stop, small rocks off the island offers big plateaus covered with hard corals and gentle slope with barrel sponges gives protection to various marine life. Raja Ampat, translated from the Indonesian language, means Four Kings. It refers to an archipelago with more than 1500 islands with the four main islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool and is part of the Coral Triangle making it one of the richest biodiversity of the world. Once we arrive in Misool you will be amazed by the diversity you will find here. An abundance of marine life, a variety of underwater seamounts, smaller pinnacles, coral walls and coral gardens, covered in giant sea fans, soft corals in all colours, massive table corals and countless fish. The massive sea fans house the smallest seahorses. This is a great place to find the elusive epaulette shark, or walking shark. This nocturnal shark sneaks up on its pray by ‘walking’ closer and closer to it. More than 1300 different species of fishes and more than 600 different spices of corals are some of the beauties from this Indonesian paradise. Misool is a big marine park set up by Misool Eco Resort in cooperation with all the local villages and a few proud sponsors like Ilike Liveaboard. It is agreed not to fish inside this area, and it is patrolled by the park rangers. The Dampier Strait, between Waigeo and Batanta, beautiful coral gardens, underwater pinnacles or seamounts, sandy bottom with coral heads and cleaning stations. Here we can find even more nutrients bringing in bigger predators like giant trevallies, yellow fin tuna, rainbow runners and even some sharks like blacktip, grey reef, white tip sharks. It is also one of the few places in the world where we can find two species of Manta rays on the same dive sites.