Leyla Itinerary

Exploring Komodo (LBJ) 5N

6 days / 5 nights

About Leyla

  • Lovely solid wood traditional phinisi with modern updates for the ultimate in guest comfort
  • Nearly 1:1 crew to guest ratio for outstanding service above and below water
  • Incredible itineraries exploring Raja Ampat, Komodo, and lesser-known areas with trips lasting up to 16 days at sea
  • Passionate and personalised dive service with small groups and multiple tenders

Leyla is a stunning sailing phinisi that combines high standards for guest service and superb modern style with dynamic and creative itineraries sure to impress even the most discerning divers. Enjoy an “eat, sleep, dive, repeat” style holiday with round the clock care from a passionate and professional crew, dedicated to delivering incredible underwater experiences to every guest onboard. With its intimate and action-packed trips around Komodo, Raja Ampat, the Banda Sea, Alor, and the Forgotten islands, this boat is the perfect choice for an enriching dive holiday around the Indonesian archipelago.

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Itinerary details

6 days / 5 nights
Up to 12
Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Required

Highlights

  • Quick, circular trip around the best sites of Komodo
  • Meet Komodo’s iconic mantas at bustling cleaning stations
  • Enjoy the current swept Lintah Strait
  • Marvel at the macro critters of Padar
  • Visit Padar’s viewpoint to see three beaches with different coloured sand
  • Trek in search of the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon
  • Kayak through mangroves and watch Kalong Island’s famous flying foxes

Day 1:
We sail from Labuan Bajo to Sebayur Kecil for our check dive, this reef is ideal to start our trip, a shallow reef that turns into a white sandy bottom at around 14 metres, garden eels live in the sand, small critters can be found in between the corals. In the afternoon we will dive under the Sebayur Jetty and the sloping reef around it, schools of big eye trevally and surgeonfish are common to see around the jetty.
mantis shrimp

Day 2:
After a short drive with the boat we will arrive at Tatawa Besar, the reef contains lots of orange soft corals and hard corals, turtles and reef sharks live on the reef, from time to time a manta ray passes by, so keep an eye in the blue during this dive.

After this dive we sail towards the north of Komodo National Park to dive the Cauldron, we start this dive in a coral garden with calm waters, halfway the dive we will pass through a channel in between two islands, where we can have a thrilling drift over the 'shotgun' and end up again in a beautiful coral garden.

In the afternoon we dive Crystal Rock which is a pinnacle in the open ocean. You'll encounter strong currents and big fish hunted by even bigger fish.

Day 3:
We start this day with a dive at the Golden Passage, this is a similar dive as the Cauldron. We will dive in between two islands to meet schools of sweetlips and batfish, sharks and turtles also belong to the local marine life.

At Manta Point we will search for.....indeed, mantas. The long stretch of shallow volcanic rock bottom contains a lot of 'coral boulders', rocks with hard corals and reef fish, which are the cleaning stations for the mantas.

Last dive of the day before enjoying a beautiful sunset on the deck towards Padar is Batu Bolong, this is a small rock in the middle of the 'Lintah Strait'. The rather 'deserted' rock seen from above the water doesn't reveal all the action under water, beautiful hard corals grow against each other on the rocks like plants fighting for sunlight, hundreds of orange anthias fish swim above the coral and from time to time a trevally attacks the reef fish searching for his little snack.

Day 4:
In the morning when the tropical sun isn't too hot yet, we will visit the viewpoint on the island Padar, three beaches, three different colours.

The marine life around Padar is different from that in the centre of Komodo, colder water from the South brings in a lot of nutrients, soft corals and strawberry corals grow on the walls and rocks of Pillarsteen, nudibranch are common to spot on this site.

Back to the warmer centre of the park, right at the entrance of the bay of Rinca we will dive Wainilu, this is a top 'Muck' dive site.

Day 5:
Today we will go for a short trekking on the island Rinca, one of the islands where the famous Komodo dragons can be seen.

After the hike we can dive Wainilu again and depending on our desaturation time before flight we will dive Batu Pengah, colourful walls, dominated by wire corals, fan corals and strawberry corals and a plateau extending from the island with lots of table corals with underneath baby white tip reef sharks. Turtles and sweetlips live on these reefs in healthy numbers.

In the evening we'll witness the flying foxes leaving Kalong island.

Day 6:
Check out at Labuan Bajo.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.

Transfer details

Departure

10:00am

Labuan Bajo

Labuan Bajo Komodo Airport: LBJ

Return

10:00am

Labuan Bajo

Labuan Bajo Komodo Airport: LBJ

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