Snorkeling the Alor Archipelago!
The Alor archipelago is a snorkeler’s paradise where lush coral reefs thrive just below towering volcanoes and rugged coastlines, and where the diversity and abundance of tropical reef fishes is some of the highest in the world! This is the wild and exciting region of the Alor archipelago! Please join our small group of adventurous snorkelers on board our luxurious 5-star motor yacht for this incredible journey to the world’s epicenter for marine biodiversity!
Itinerary
Each departure is unique and hand-crafted to expose you to a diversity of marine habitats and the incredible snorkeling sites that can be found there. Pristine shallow coral gardens, exposed, seaward reef flats of Lembata, secluded bays, the super-fishy passages of Pantar, and the black sands of Beangabang Bay for unique marine creatures awaits us! Add volcanoes and islands made of fire against a tropical blue sea, and the chance for a variety of large and small marine mammals and that’s what Alor is all about! The usual disclaimer about weather and tides affecting the itinerary are only a bonus for us, since we use them to ensure we visit each site at the best times possible! Our snorkeling tour begins and ends in Jakarta, Indonesia, with one internal, round-trip flight.
Tour Dates and Pricing
Accommodations: Gaia Love
Length: 13 days
Arrival / Departure city: Jakarta, Indonesia
Guides: Lee Goldman, Ethan Daniels
Prices and Payment schedule:
$9,000 USD per person, double occupancy
$13,500 USD per person, single occupancy
Reservation deposit: $500 USD
February 26, 2025: $4,500 USD / $7,500 USD (single occ.)
May 26, 2025: $4,000 USD / $5,500 USD (single occ.)
Cancellation policy:
180 – 91 days prior to departure: 50% of trip cost
90 days or less prior to departure: 100% of tour cost
This tour is currently sold out. Please contact us to be waitlisted
Accommodations: Gaia Love
Length: 13 days
Arrival / Departure city: Jakarta, Indonesia
Guides: Ethan Daniels
Prices and Payment schedule:
$ USD per person, double occupancy
$ USD per person, single occupancy
Reservation deposit: $500 USD
October 28, 2025: $ USD
January 28, 2026: $ USD / $ USD (single occ.)
Cancellation policy:
180 – 91 days prior to departure: 50% of trip cost
90 days or less prior to departure: 100% of tour cost
Inclusions / Exclusions
Tour cost includes:
- Accommodations throughout tour dates
- All meals on days 2 through 12 (dinner on day 1 – breakfast on day 13)
- All internal transfers including international arrival and departure transfers
- Non-alcoholic beverages
- All snorkeling and park fees
- All gratuities
Tour cost does not include:
- Round-trip international airfare
- Additional hotel accommodations and meals as a result of travel outside of the program dates
- Visa requirements including payments
- Alcoholic beverages
- International departure taxes
- Extra / overweight baggage fees
- Trip insurance (we recommend Travel Guard or World Nomads)
- Emergency medical evacuation insurance (required). Check your medical health care plan or contact DAN or DiveAssure.
- Additional accommodations while on tour in the event of flight schedule changes or events of force majeure
- Fuel surcharges (if applicable)
Accommodations
We begin the design of our snorkeling-trips-of-a-lifetime around luxurious live-aboard motor yachts and stunning, spacious resorts, both offering the highest levels of service. For our departures to the Alor Archipelago we use the Gaia Love. The hotel / resort we use in Jakarta is the Sheraton Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport.
What to Expect
Alor and the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands are located about 8 degrees south of the Equator and enjoy a tropical climate with generally sunny days and occasional early morning or afternoon showers. The large variance in water temperature reflects the influence from oceanic upwellings of cool water that affect the south side of the archipelago, tides, and wind. For more details about the Alor Archipelago, what to expect and what to bring, download the pdf brochure and check out the gallery of marine life we have seen while snorkeling in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands!
