Lembeh Straits Diving Holidays, Scuba Diving Lembeh Straits, muck diving, Indonesia Diving

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The Kungkungan Bay Resort is an eco-friendly resort designed and built specifically with the diver in mind just 1 hour and 30 minutes from Manado international airport.

Special Features

Located opposite Lembeh Island

Eco-resort in an old coconut plantation

Authentic cottages and deluxe rooms

Full board basis including diving

Spa/Pool/Bar/Local Tours/Restaurant

Un-limited house reef diving

Prices from

£1,882

Including flights and transfers

Diving from

£36

Dive Package of 20 dives

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Lembeh Resort

The Lembeh Resort is a spectacular boutique style resort situated on Lembeh Island, approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes drive from Manado airport, followed by a 10 minute boat ride.

Special Features

Boutique divers resort

14 traditional style cottages

Full board with 3 boat dives per day

Unlimited house reef diving

Local cultural tours

Pool/Spa/Internet/PADI Dive Centre

Prices from

£2,106

Including flights and transfers

Diving from

£36

Dive Package of 20 dives

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Lembeh Straits is a 12 km long stretch of water separating Lembeh Island and the mainland. This resort is not known for its massive schools of pelagic fishes or congregations of sharks. Instead, Lembeh Straits has become known as a "Macro-Mecca." This is because of the incredible number of unusual marine animals that are regularly encountered in this area. Here you can expect to see Cuttle fish, Mandarin fish, Squid, Octopus, Ghostpipefish, Hairy Frogfish, Pygmy Seahorse, Crabs, Shrimp, Nudibranch, Scorpion fish, and many more rare and unusual animals.

Diving is over shallow black sandy slopes where sea horses and nudibranches are found in abundance. Many of the species that are encountered are simply not found elsewhere. Lembeh dive sites provide keen photographers with a source of endless macro subjects. This is critter diving to the best. For divers looking for an alternative to Lembeh’s macro life, the straits are also the finally resting place for a number of WWII shipwrecks, most of which are in diveable range.

Lembeh Straits is known as the muck diving capital of the world. This means that there are a lot of sites which are sandy slopes, often with black sand, and the visibility is 10 to 15m. Due to the black sand it is perfect for photographers as this reduces back glare, and this is why many photographers like coming to dive Lembeh.

It is also one of the few places in the world where you will see unusual creatures such as hairy frog fish, pygmy sea horse, large sea horses and flamboyant cuttlefish to name a few.

Lembeh Straights Diving Holidays - Diving Information

Lembeh Straits has decent coral meadows to the north but it is mostly famous for being one of the best muck diving destinations in the world peeling back layers of life to reveal shy critters such as the flamboyant cuttlefish, harlequin shrimp, mimic octopus, wonderpus and skeleton shrimps.

Under the calm surface on the floors of dark sand scuttles you will find unbelievable arrays of unusual and rare critters. There are also wrecks and smaller reefs to explore which only adds to Lembeh's claim to be a unique and special diving destination.

The Lembeh Straits are 25 kilometres long and its seabed is as diverse as the creatures which inhabit it. The most famous muck dive sites is Hairball and all the black sand dive sites in the Kambahu Bay area which include the TK1, TK2, TK3, Retak Larry and the magnificent Magic Crack.

TK1, TK2 and TK3 are named after the village in the bay. These sites have gentle black sand slopes offering great chances of seeing amazing displays of fish, many different types of pipefish, devilfish, shrimps, nudibranchs, snails, anemones, sea urchins and the infamous rhinopious.

Lembeh Strait Diving Season

Lembeh Strait offers fantastic year round diving. There can be swells during January and February in the north of the Strait and you might not be able to dive the true coral sites every day. The swells subside in March and it is easier to photograph small critters, such as Pontohi pigmy seahorse in the shallows. March to May, the weather is generally good to dive all around the Lembeh Island. This is also the time you might be lucky to see a whale shark or even a whale.

April to October is considered as the best critter season. The visibility is lower and the temperature drops down gradually to 26- 24 Celsius in July, which may be the reasons there are more critters. July is the months mimic octopus are seen has been seen mating and between January to July, Flamboyant cuttlefish are most abundant.

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