Alor’s cold-water upwelling season — September through November — brings two bonus pelagics into recreational depths alongside the hammerheads: mola mola, reported mainly at the cooler southern sites, and thresher sharks, which pass through Alor’s…
Alor’s surface water sits at a comfortable 26–29°C for most of the year, but the region’s defining feature is its thermoclines: at southern and deeper Pantar Strait sites, upwellings can drop the water to 20–22°C…
For most divers on a multi-day Alor liveaboard, yes — nitrox is worth it. Alor’s signature dives sit in the 20–35 m band where enriched air delivers its biggest no-decompression gains, and liveaboard schedules of…
Kalabahi is the main town of Alor and the operational gateway for every liveaboard in the region: flights from Kupang land at Mali Airport (ARD) 15–30 minutes away, the Pelni ferry from Kupang docks in…
Takpala is a traditional village of the Abui people — Alor’s largest indigenous group — set on a hillside 13–15 km from Kalabahi, about 20–30 minutes by road. It is the most accessible cultural site…
Pura and Ternate are the two small volcanic islands sitting mid-channel in the Pantar Strait, between Alor and Pantar. Their fringing reefs hold several of the region’s best-loved sites — including Clown Valley, the anemone…
The waters that make Alor famous are formally protected: the Suaka Alam Perairan (SAP) Selat Pantar and its surrounding seas cover roughly 276,700–277,000 hectares of the archipelago, with the reserve formally established in 2015. The…
Alor is one of the few world-class dive destinations where snorkellers get a genuinely fair share: visibility that regularly exceeds 30 m, reef life starting at the surface, and calm lee-side anchorages where the shallows…
The short version: Alor’s dive sites are scattered across two big straits and several islands, and the best diving is tide-timed — which is why a liveaboard covers in one trip what a land-based diver…
Alor sits inside the Coral Triangle — the six-country region recognised as the global centre of marine biodiversity — and its numbers hold up at the neighbourhood’s standard: coral diversity in eastern Indonesia runs on…