LIVEABOARD DIVING IN Gili Trawangan

Gili Trawagan is the hub of the Gili Islands dive industry. The closest international airport is Lombok from where you got to get to Pamenang (60km/37mi) and then take a ferry to Gili Trawangan. The Gili islands are one of the most amazing places to take a dive course at any level. Those completing an Open Water certification and diving for the first time will be comforted by the warm water, high visibility, short distances to dive sites, and common sightings of peaceful turtles. Veteran divers will be delighted by tech-friendly ship wrecks, challenged by drift dives with crazy currents, and rewarded with not-infrequent shark sightings. There are between 15-20 dive schools on this tiny, five-mile-in-circumference island. Shark and Manta Points are the two most frequently visited sites around Gili Trawangan. Taking up a large swath of Gili Trawangan’s North West waters, Shark Point boasts an impressive variety of sea life with schooling trevally and jacks, turtles, octopus and reef sharks, also black tips, white tips. Other worth visiting sites include Halik Reef, Coral Fan, Bounty Wreck.