Field notes
Field notes from Alor and the Pantar Strait.
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Getting to Alor in 2027 still runs through one core corridor: fly into Kupang, then take a short turboprop hop to Mali Airport near Kalabahi, with overnight ferries from Kupang and Lembata as the dependable backup.…
An independent dive travel concierge for Alor is a specialist broker that plans and books your Alor–Pantar Strait trip through…
Alor dive site maps and current profiles chart where the Pantar Strait's water actually moves — pairing depth bands, entry…
Current-driven wall diving in Alor is engineered around three levers: the lunar cycle that drives tidal flow, fast negative-entry descents…
An Alor macro-and-pelagic combo trip splits your dive days between two worlds: Kalabahi Bay's volcanic black-sand muck for macro, and…
Hammerhead shark diving in Alor centres on one documented scalloped-hammerhead site in the Pantar Strait that drops to roughly 32…
Blue whales pass through the deep straits around Alor and Pantar during the dry-season window of roughly April to November,…
For Alor, a liveaboard buys reach and remote sites you cannot touch from shore, while land-based diving buys depth in…
Planning a Maumere-to-Alor liveaboard route means matching a September-October crossing with the right gateway flights: fly into Maumere's Frans Seda…
The Pantar Strait is Indonesia's most credible "next frontier" for advanced current diving — a Coral Triangle channel of gorgonian…
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