 Jaya Live Aboard
The Ship The live aboard boat Jaya is an Indonesian Phinisi, built by a mixture of traditional and modern techniques customized for the Asian waters. She was built in 1999 as a dive exploration vessel, we have since then sailed, dived and surfed throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand discovering new destinations and already known destinations. We cater to culture trips, surf explorations, and have full dive live aboard facilities onboard with 2 compressors, 2 dinghies, and charging stations for your cameras and laptops. The cabins are divided into double cabins with twin and double bunks. All cabins have 24-hour running marine fans. On deck we have a big shaded area to relax in. We can take up to a maximum of 12 guests. The Trip Gili - Komodo – Gili with Jaya The trip is suitable for divers and non-divers alike and lasts seven full days and eight nights in total. We leave at 1600hrs from Teluk Nara and the trip ends back on Gili Trawangan in the early morning. The schedule is flexible depending on weather and diving conditions but roughly looks like this: Day 1 - Welcome onboard and enjoy dinner together! You will be getting on the boat in late afternoon. We will be setting up the dive equipment and checking you in to your cabin. We leave at sunset when we also will have our first dinner on the boat together. We are then traveling overnight. Day 2 - Moyo and Satonda. We are arriving in Moyo in the morning for a check dive at Medang. Then traveling through the day to Satonda where we do an afternoon dive and at sunset stop and look at the sky when it fills with millions of bats. This is very special to see as they travel from Satonda to Sumbawa to hunt the same time every evening. Traveling overnight to Sangean. Day 3 - Sangean and Banta. In the early morning we arrive in the north of Sangean where we dive at the amazing Bubble Reef. Then sailing down to Banta, where we do the second dive at GPS point. After that we head for Komodo where we will be arriving late that evening. Day 4 – Dragon safari and fantastic diving! In the early morning we will be entering the Komodo National Park. Escorted by a local ranger for a walk around the park to find the huge animals at very close range in their own habitat and enjoy the fascinating panorama of the island. This is the land of the “Komodo Dragon”, the largest monitor lizards on earth. Then three dives in the rest of the day. We stay anchored in Komodo bay overnight. Day 5 - Komodo and the surrounds We will be doing three dives in the Komodo area. In the evening, we arrive in another island in Flores, Labuan Bajo where we stay overnight. Day 6 - Komodo and the surrounds We do three dives in komodo and anchoring in the north of Komodo. Day 7 - Banta to Sangean Diving Banta in the morning then traveling through the day to Sangean for late afternoon dive in Sangean house reef. We then have dinner and travel over night. Day 8 - Moyo National Marine Park Morning dive in Hajis reef then land tour followed by afternoon dive at the Moyo wall. We sail overnight back to Gili Trawangan.
Day 9 - Disembarking on the Gilis in the morning. The trip starts and ends in Teluk Nara, meeting point for the departure is on the ship in Teluk Nara at 1600hrs on the departure date. Please don’t book any flights out of Lombok until the afternoon so there’s some time allocated for unforeseen events. The Diving The journey will take us through some of Asia’s most amazing dive sights, through the calm waters of Moyo to the raving currents of Komodo straight. Even though some of the dives are advanced, anyone can come on this trip. We will customize the diving to every individual’s own level of comfort and pick the dive sights suitable for you. The diving in Komodo serves one of the widest spectra of marine life spotting in the world. We can see everything from sharks, pelagics, mantas, and dolphins to pygmy seahorses, blue ringed octopus and frogfish but the most impressive with komodo diving is the amount of fish on the dive sights and the massive amount of healthy corals. |
