Komodo Charter Itinerary

Komodo Itinerary

Komodo Yacht Charter
Komodo sits where the Pacific and Indian oceans exchange water through a narrow gap, and the current that results feeds one of the richest reef systems on earth. It also makes the diving demanding and the timing everything ’ slack water is a twenty-minute proposition.





Above the surface the park is dry savannah rather than jungle, brown hills falling into blue water, and it holds the last three thousand Komodo dragons in existence. The combination ’ pelagic diving, monitor lizards, and empty pink beaches ’ exists nowhere else.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Komodo; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Labuan Bajo to Sabolan

Board at Labuan Bajo on Flores, a fishing town that has become the gateway to the park without entirely losing the fish. Cruise out to Sabolan, a sand island with reef on both sides, for the first snorkel. Cocktails on deck, dinner outside, and the Indonesian night arriving quickly and completely.
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Day 2

Komodo reefs

A sunrise passage to the dive sites that made the park’s name. Castle Rock and Crystal Rock are seamounts in open current, where trevally and sharks hold in the flow and the reef fish shelter in the lee. Shotgun does what it is named for, flushing divers through a channel on the tide. Not a beginner’s day, and a superb one.
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Day 3

Siaba & Takat Makassar

Green turtles graze the seagrass at Siaba in numbers that stop being remarkable by mid-morning. Batu Bolong is a pinnacle so densely covered that the rock is invisible, and it is dived only on one side because the current takes the other. Finish at Takat Makassar, a sandbar where mantas pass through at the change of tide.
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Day 4

Rinca & Padar

Rinca holds more dragons than Komodo island itself. Walk with a ranger ’ they carry a forked stick, and it is not for show. The animals are three metres long, ambush predators, and entirely indifferent. Afterwards, sail to Padar and climb it at dusk, for the view of three bays curving away in three directions.
Day 5

Padar & Tatawa

Climb Padar again at sunrise if you can face it; the light is better and you will have the ridge to yourself. Then Tatawa, an island with white sand and coral in good health, easy snorkelling after two demanding days. Kayak the mangroves in the afternoon. Anchor somewhere with no other lights.
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Day 6

Komodo Island

A slower day. Swim, take the paddleboard out, and let the crew fish. At dusk, anchor off the mangrove islands and wait: thousands of flying foxes lift off at once and stream across the channel against the last of the light, for twenty minutes without a break. Then a barbecue on a beach, in the dark.
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Day 7

Labuan Bajo

A last breakfast as the yacht works back through the islands, brown hills sliding past on both sides and the water going from navy to jade over the shallows. Komodo asks something of its visitors ’ the current, the heat, the lizards ’ and returns it several times over. Disembark at Labuan Bajo.
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