by Elizabeth
Raja Ampat is pretty far off the radar for your typical traveller, however it’s the gold standard for scuba divers. Located in an island chain off the coast of Indonesia’s West Papua province (next door to Papua New Guinea), it’s pretty far from Indonesia’s traditional tourist haunts. For months scuba diving with my parents from a live aboard dive boat in Raja Ampat has been only concrete travel “plan.”

View from our hotel in Sorong.