- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Periplus Editions (Hong Kong) Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (27 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 962593314X
- ISBN-13: 978-9625933146
- Product Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.1 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This guide to Indonesia for divers, covers sites from the shallow reefs of Bintan island to the current-swept wrecks of World War II aircraft lying off Indonesian New Guinea. Dives range from easy shore dives to luxurious live-aboards in the Banda Sea.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Extremely good! In this book I found everything I wanted to know. If this had been the first book I bought about diving in Indonesia, I wouldn't have to buy the others!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Covers virtually all areas with diving facilities, from popular ones like Bali or North Sulawesi to little-known gems like the Tukangbesi Islands of South-East Sulawesi or the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua. No information for snorkellers though.
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The Most Comprehensive Diving Guide to Indonesia
21 Mar 2004
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Covers virtually all areas with diving facilities, from popular ones like Bali or North Sulawesi to little-known gems like the Tukangbesi Islands of South-East Sulawesi or the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua. No information for snorkellers though.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
matches my experience
31 Dec 2008
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I've dived much of the territory this book covers, including Bali, Komodo, Raja Ampat, and Wakatobi, and in my experience the Periplus guides are about as good as they get. Just remember that one rotten reef bomber can destroy a pristine dive site in five minutes, so you can't depend on any given dive site being what this book describes. Still, you should have a book before you go there--many areas have treacherous currents (a requirement for the dazzling biodiversity we enjoy) and other tricky circumstances, so you shouldn't go unprepared.
But Indonesia has, arguably, the best diving on Earth, and this book is the best intro I know of.
One tip: Grand Komodo Tours, based in Bali, has liveaboards in many of these areas. My wife & I have gone on three of them and loved the prices and the expertise we got. Don't use expat divemasters! We only use divemasters who grew up there. You're often a long, long ways from help, and it takes locals to really know the water conditions in many of these places.
One other tip: the book recommends Tulamben in Bali for good diving, and so it is--but the divemasters at the German resort there have been grabbing all the nudibranchs they can find and moving them in front of their resort. So if you want to find nice nudibranchs there, you know where to find them now.
That's the sort of advice no book can give you--even the Periplus ones. So always supplement your book-learning with extended conversations with knowledgeable locals.
If you aren't a diver yet, try Permuteran in Bali. It seemed to have the easiest conditions.
But Indonesia has, arguably, the best diving on Earth, and this book is the best intro I know of.
One tip: Grand Komodo Tours, based in Bali, has liveaboards in many of these areas. My wife & I have gone on three of them and loved the prices and the expertise we got. Don't use expat divemasters! We only use divemasters who grew up there. You're often a long, long ways from help, and it takes locals to really know the water conditions in many of these places.
One other tip: the book recommends Tulamben in Bali for good diving, and so it is--but the divemasters at the German resort there have been grabbing all the nudibranchs they can find and moving them in front of their resort. So if you want to find nice nudibranchs there, you know where to find them now.
That's the sort of advice no book can give you--even the Periplus ones. So always supplement your book-learning with extended conversations with knowledgeable locals.
If you aren't a diver yet, try Permuteran in Bali. It seemed to have the easiest conditions.
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