Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine July 2014 | Page 130

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Travel | Raja Ampat

You can spend days chilling
on the deck or go looking
for an adrenalin boost
diving with manta rays
and reef sharks, kayaking
or paddleboarding.

Ramon Estrada has
worked as a dive instructor
throughout much of the world
in the last 20 years. He’s
travelled to some of the most
incredible dive spots on the
planet… yet his three favourite
places are all in Indonesia.
More impressive still: all
three are in Raja Ampat.

“Raja Ampat is like nowhere else in the
world,” says Estrada. “I’m from the
Mexican Caribbean, so I’m used to clear
water and lots of sea life, but Raja Ampat
is far and away the most spectacular
diving I’ve ever seen.”

country can feel. Each island seems to have
its own character. By the time we’d left the
lush