INTO THE BLUE - DIVING THE GILI ISLANDS with MANTA DIVE

As one of Indonesia’s top areas for scuba diving and a reputation for being the ‘turtle capital of the world’, with year round water temperatures about 28 degrees Celsius, the Gili islands have become popular for beginners and experienced divers alike. There are about 18 dive sites around the three islands, with a variety of topography (slopes, walls, ridges and canyons) and an enormous amount of diverse marine life. This includes black – and white tip reef sharks, lots of turtles (hawksbill and olive ridley), lionfish, scorpion fish, cuttle fish and octopus, moray eels, sea snakes, different types of rays (blue – spotted, eagle and, from December to March, manta rays)not to mention schools of bump - head parrot fish every full moon and the occasional whale shark…plus countless varieties of hard and soft corals. Haan’s Reef on Gili Air is fast becoming renowned for excellent “muck diving” where divers can see rare critters like frogfish, pink - leafed scorpion fish, flying gunard, mantis shrimp, nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, robust ghost pipefish, blue ringed octopus and ringed pipefish.

Photographs courtesy of James White

THE GILI ECO TRUST

Concerns about conserving the Gili Island’s dive sites have led to the creation of the Gili Eco Trust. All dive centers operating in the Gili islands have a fixed price agreement and have agreed to charge a one - time Rp50,000 ‘reef tax’ to every diver. This money is then used to pay for beach cleaning, recycling and reef conservation.

GILI ISLANDS DIVE SITES

MANTA POINT	SHARK POINT
HALIK REEF	DEEP TURBOS
HANNS REEF	SIMONS
STINGRAY	WW 2 WRECK
MENO WALL	GOODHEART
BIO ROCK PROJECT	TUNANG SLOPE

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GILI ECO TRUST PADI & SSI PRICE LIST 2010
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* FREE FUN DIVE WORTH $ 38US WITH ANY OF THESE DIVE COURSES
OR 5 FUN DIVES ONLY WHEN BOOKING THROUGH ISLAND PROMOTIONS

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FREEDIVEGILI is the new place that you can learn to freedive in South East Asia, located at Manta Dive on the idyllic island of Gili Trawangan in Lombok, just a short distance from the holiday island of Bali.

Gili Trawangan has been one of Indonesia’s premier dive attractions for many years with its crystal clear waters, beautiful coral reefs and abundant marine life. This also makes it the perfect place to learn to freedive with beautiful dive sites only a walk off of the beach.

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