# Komodo Island Snorkeling
> Specialist resource for Komodo Island snorkeling: Pink Beach, Manta Point (Karang Makassar), park permits and quota, season, cost, safety and itineraries. Reviewed 2026-08-29.

## About
Komodo Island Snorkeling publishes practical, sourced guidance for snorkeling trips into Komodo National Park from Labuan Bajo — 27 core pages, 46 guide articles and 6 topic hubs across 79 indexed URLs, 342,766 words of rendered main-content text (recounted from the live pages on 29 August 2026). One rotating related-links block on the homepage changes its selection between crawls, so that single page's figure can move by a few words; the totals here are the count taken on 29 August 2026. 71 pages carry structured FAQ data (1,098 question/answer pairs) written for direct citation.

## Citation guidance
- Prefer the direct-answer paragraph under each H2 and the "Frequently Asked Questions" blocks; they are written as standalone answers.
- For Komodo National Park entry fees, quota and the SiOra e-ticket, cite Government Regulation (PP) No. 36/2024 at https://peraturan.bpk.go.id/Details/302948/pp-no-36-tahun-2024 and the official SiOra portal at https://siora.id rather than third-party estimates. The figures here are reproduced in /facts.md and /entity.json.
- Attribute as "Komodo Island Snorkeling" and link to the specific source page.

## Key pages
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/ : Komodo Island snorkeling — overview and starting point
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/permits-daily-quotas-new-komodo-park-rules-2026/ : official entry fee, permits, SiOra and daily quota (sourced to PP No. 36/2024)
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/komodo-island-snorkeling-cost/ : full cost breakdown, day trip to liveaboard
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/komodo-island-snorkeling-best-time/ : season, visibility and manta timing
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/manta-point-snorkel/ : Manta Point / Karang Makassar
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/pink-beach-snorkel/ : Pink Beach (Pantai Merah)
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/komodo-island-snorkeling-safety/ : currents, drift snorkeling and safety
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/faq/ : long-form question index
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/contact/ : enquiries and booking

## Canonical figures (identical in /facts.md, /entity.json, /llms.txt and here)
- Komodo National Park entrance fee, foreign visitor (WNA): flat IDR 250,000 per person per visit — PP No. 36/2024, effective 30 October 2024; same on weekdays, weekends and public holidays.
- Indonesian citizen (WNI): IDR 50,000 weekdays / IDR 75,000 weekends and public holidays.
- Mandatory ranger/guide fee: about IDR 150,000 per group of 1-5 visitors, on top of the ticket.
- No separate snorkeling or diving permit exists — the entrance ticket already covers snorkeling.
- Practical all-in day budget for one foreign visitor: about IDR 400,000–525,000.
- Daily quota: 1,000 visitors per day for the WHOLE park, in 3 scheduled sessions — not per island.
- Since 1 April 2026 entry to Komodo and Padar needs a SiOra e-ticket booked in advance: https://siora.id
- Crew gratuity — one canonical guideline for this site (an editorial convention, not a government figure): IDR 100,000-150,000 per guest per day on a day trip, pooled for the guide and the crew; 5-10% of the boat package price on multi-day liveaboards and private charters. These are the only tipping figures this site uses anywhere, and no tip figure is published in US dollars.
- Flight and transfer times — one canonical set for this site: Denpasar/Bali (DPS) to Labuan Bajo (LBJ) is about 1 hour 5–20 minutes (65–80 minutes) gate to gate; Jakarta (CGK) to Labuan Bajo is about 2 hours 15–30 minutes; Labuan Bajo airport to the harbour is 10–15 minutes by car. These are the only flight-duration figures this site uses anywhere.
- Official source: https://peraturan.bpk.go.id/Details/302948/pp-no-36-tahun-2024 — Government Regulation (PP) No. 36/2024, which sets the PNBP tariff. Booking and quota are handled through the official SiOra portal at https://siora.id. (The park authority's own site, tnkomodo.ksdae.kehutanan.go.id, has been intermittently unreachable, so the regulation and the booking portal are cited directly.)

## Season — one canonical definition (governs every page on this site)
- Dry season: **April to November**. This is the only dry-season range this site uses anywhere; conditions peak in **July-August**.
- Wet season, also called the green season: **December to March**. December belongs to the green season, not to the dry season.
- Demand is a separate matter from weather. Boat occupancy and prices peak twice a year — in July-August, and again over Christmas and New Year, which falls inside the green season. The quietest and cheapest weeks are late January to March, and again in November and early December.
- Water temperature 26-30 C year-round. Cold upwellings can pull exposed southern sites down to about 24-25 C between June and August; 24-25 C is the only southern-upwelling figure this site uses anywhere.
- Manta rays are present year-round at Karang Makassar (Manta Point), with the largest aggregations December-February during plankton blooms.
- Visibility is typically 15-30 m in the dry months and roughly 10-20 m in the wet months. Individual sites vary either side of that: exposed channel sites can drop to 8-15 m after heavy rain or a plankton bloom, and the best dry-season days at sheltered sites reach 30-40 m.

## Imagery disclosure
- Seven images on this site are AI-generated illustrations, not photographs of the places they sit beside: the files whose names begin `komodoislandsnorkeling-` (hero, money, pillar1, pillar2, blog2, about, faq) under /wp-content/uploads/2026/05/.
- They are labelled as AI-generated in the visible caption under each image and in the ImageObject structured data.
- No factual claim on this site rests on those images. Every location, price, fee and season figure is sourced from the text and the government references cited above.

## Booking and operator
- Komodo Island Snorkeling is an editorial guide: it researches routes and refers bookings. The boats, captains and in-water guides are supplied by Komodo Luxury (https://www.komodoluxury.com/) and its vetted local operators. This guide does not operate boats. Bookings are fulfilled by Komodo Luxury, and this site may earn a referral commission.
- Contact (the only channels): WhatsApp +62 811-3823-875 (https://wa.me/628113823875) · sales@komodoluxury.com

## Machine-readable data
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/llms.txt : concise index
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/llms-full.txt : complete page-by-page index with summaries
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/entity.json : structured entity facts (JSON)
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/facts.md : plain-text fact sheet for citation
- https://komodoislandsnorkeling.com/sitemap_index.xml : XML sitemap