Raja Ampat recommendations

Any recommendations on the itinerary for a 1 month resort trip this March to the Raja Ampat area - some macro, but mostly pelagics, schools, bait balls.

 

Does Papua make sense?

 

Travel agent recommendations?

I think you need to do some research on what RA has to offer.

Raja Ampat for me is all about gorgeous coral and small reef fish!

I saw lots of bait fish but not the kind that ball up. As for Pelagics there were Mantas on 2 sites, and I saw 1 medium size grey reef shark and 1 Dog tooth tuna in 45 dives. Raja Ampat in my opinion is best done on a liveaboard, preferrabkly one that does a itinerary that does the south/north & strait.

Sounds like you need to go back to the drawing board.

Thanks.

The sites I've reviewed talked about a much wider range of species, large and small; but there may have been a lot of sales pitch involved.

I'll take a deeper look.

Thanks.

The sites I've reviewed talked about a much wider range of species, large and small; but there may have been a lot of sales pitch involved.

I'll take a deeper look.

Probably a lot of sales pitch. I did a liveaboard in raja 2 weeks ago and enjoy it. Plenty of small reef fish and bait fish, saw a few sharks and a lot of mantas. The corals and bait fish in misool is for me THE reason to go to raja.

My highlights were

 

The soft Corals of misool and the southern islands

Arborek Jetty

Cendana fuel dock & White arrow

Shadow reef

Magic mountain

Cape kri

Manta Sandy