Outside and Travel and Leisure highlight Indonesia, specifically Raja Ampat Islands, among the world’s best places to scuba dive. Read on to learn more and find out other spots worth exploring.

The tide, calm but high, laps onto powdered white sand, occasionally rippling as one of the dozen or so black-tip reef sharks cruising the shallows darts at prey. The sea is otherwise silent, but the ...

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I was sitting in a tender in total darkness in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, clutching a ceramic cup of coffee in the hope that the heat and caffeine would wake me up. I had come to Indonesia's ...

Sudden movements, we are warned, will scare away the mantas. It will also interrupt their necessary hygiene ritual, thereby increasing the environmental pressure on this beautiful species. We are four ...