Raja Ampat
Part of the Coral Triangle and containing the richest marine biodiversity on earth, Raja Ampat should be on the bucket list of any serious diver. Located at the northwest tip of Bird’s Head Peninsula, Papua Guinea, the Raja Ampat archipelago, or the Four Kings, consists of over 1500 small islands surrounding the main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo. Cove Eco Resort is situated on Yeben Island, a boat ride from Wasai, and is right in the middle of the best diving on this planet!
Affordable Luxury in Raja Ampat
Eco-luxury on Yeben Island. Cove Eco Resort gets our vote as the most spacious new resort in Raja Ampat.
Cove Eco Resort
Huge eco villas with stunning ocean views, on the private Island of Yeben. Cove Eco Resort is a relatively new dive resort in the Raja Ampat archipelago, that provides high-end customer service with an isolated paradise vibe. Two types of villa are on offer, the standard, measuring 42sqm, and the superior, an enormous 84sqm.
Excellent, inclusive, full board cuisine comes with your accommodation, and the resort is situated close to some of the most pristine diving in Raja Ampat. Vegan, plant-based and cruelty-free scuba meals are all catered for❤️
Diving at Cove Eco Resort
Diving is arranged through the family-friendly PADI dive shop, with up to four dives daily being organised. Usually, this will be two dives in the morning, one after lunch, and then a dusk or night dive.
Nitrox is included in your dive package, and who would not want to spend more time diving the immaculate reefs nearby? Dive sites such as Manta Cove, Citrus Ridge, Melissa’s Garden, Mayhem, and My Reef are a mere stones throw away in the well-appointed resort speed boats.
How to Get There?
After arriving in the main town in the region, Sorong, you will be transferred from the airport or your hotel in to the Sorong boat terminal.
From the ferry pier, you will take a boat to Wasai, this will take you about 2 hours. Next, you will take one more speed boat ride to Yeben Island and arrive at the Cove Eco Resort.
The resort is an inclusive, environmentally conscious dive operation and will cater for a range of preferences. Let us know what you are after, and we will handle it for you. Raja Ampat is not the easiest place to travel to, although it is becoming simpler. If you have any travel queries, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Itinerary
A Day's Diving at Cove Eco Resort
Your stay at the resort includes unlimited snorkeling, kayaking, and stand-up paddle-boarding excursions.
On Wednesday, you can jump on an excursion to Piaynemo, Star Lagoon, and Melissa’s Garden.
The dive schedule usually consists of two dives in the morning, leaving at 8:00 am, and returning to the resort at 12:00 with a surface interval on one of the local beaches.
One dive in the afternoon at 14:00, then a night dive on the house reef will be scheduled for 18:30.
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