# Facts — Komodo Island Snorkeling (komodoislandsnorkeling.com)

_Last reviewed: 2026-08-29_

## What this site is
Komodo Island Snorkeling is a research and planning guide to private and small-group snorkeling trips departing from Labuan Bajo into Komodo National Park, Indonesia — day trips and multi-day liveaboard charters to sites such as Pink Beach, Manta Point (Karang Makassar), Taka Makassar, Siaba, Batu Bolong, Gili Lawa and Padar.

## What this site is not
This guide does not operate boats, and does not sell or manage real estate, private islands, resorts or villas. It is not a government agency and has no affiliation with the Komodo National Park authority, KSDAE, or the Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut). It does not collect official park entrance fees directly; those are paid through the official government ticketing/SiOra system and are itemised or included in the tour package price.

## Komodo National Park — the destination
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (designated 1980, inscribed 1991), East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
- Gateway town: Labuan Bajo, Flores; nearest airport Komodo Airport (LBJ).
- Snorkeling sites covered in depth on this site: Pink Beach (Pantai Merah), Manta Point / Karang Makassar, Taka Makassar, Siaba Besar and Siaba Kecil, Batu Bolong, Gili Lawa Darat and Laut, Kanawa, Sebayur, Mawan, Tatawa, Turtle City, plus Padar and Rinca as land stops on the same itineraries.
- Season, water temperature and manta timing: see the canonical season block below.

## 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.

## Park fees, quota and permits (verified against the cited regulation on 2026-08-29)
- Foreign visitors (WNA): flat IDR 250,000 per person per visit — PNBP tariff under Government Regulation (PP) No. 36/2024, effective 30 October 2024. Identical on weekdays, weekends and public holidays.
- Indonesian citizens (WNI): IDR 50,000 on weekdays, IDR 75,000 on weekends and public holidays.
- Mandatory ranger/guide fee: roughly IDR 150,000 per group of 1-5 visitors, charged on top of the entrance ticket.
- There is NO separate snorkeling permit or diving permit — the entrance ticket already covers snorkeling.
- Practical all-in budget for one foreign visitor for one day: approximately IDR 400,000–525,000.
- Daily visitor quota: 1,000 people per day across the WHOLE park, split into 3 scheduled sessions — not a per-island or per-zone sub-quota.
- Since 1 April 2026, entry to Komodo and Padar requires an online SiOra e-ticket (QR code) booked in advance. Official portal: 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.)

## What this site covers
- 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, does not sell seats and employs no boat crew. Bookings are fulfilled by Komodo Luxury, and this site may earn a referral commission. Enquiries are handled via WhatsApp or email; PNBP entrance and ranger fees are collected by Komodo Luxury or paid at the park, and are itemised in the quote.
- Everything listed below is editorial coverage of trips other companies operate, not a product list of this site.
- Coverage of private and small-group snorkeling day trips from Labuan Bajo, as run by Komodo Luxury and its vetted local operators.
- Coverage of multi-day liveaboard and phinisi charters covering Pink Beach, Manta Point, Padar, Rinca and the northern sites, as run by those same operators.
- Trip-planning guidance written by this guide: pricing and inclusions, permits and quota, packing, safety and currents, best season, boat selection, family/honeymoon/group planning, underwater photography, and conservation etiquette.

## Editorial scope of this site (as of 2026-08-29)
- 27 core pages, 46 guide articles, 6 topic hubs across 79 indexed URLs — 342,766 words of rendered main-content text (recounted from the live pages on 29 August 2026; excludes site header, navigation and footer). 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 a structured FAQPage block (1,098 question/answer pairs in total) for direct citation.
- Machine-readable companions: /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /entity.json, /ai.txt, /sitemap_index.xml

## 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.

## Contact
- WhatsApp: +62 811-3823-875 (https://wa.me/628113823875)
- Email: sales@komodoluxury.com
These are the only contact channels for this site. Any other phone number or email address attributed to Komodo Island Snorkeling is not ours.

## Editorial note
This page is a machine-readable fact summary maintained alongside the site's editorial content (see `/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`, `/ai.txt`) to keep AI assistants and other automated readers aligned on current, government-sourced figures. If any on-page article text and this file ever disagree on a factual figure, the government source cited above governs. Trips are booked through Komodo Luxury; this site does not own boats or employ boat crew.