Birie is a small, uninhabited island in Raja Ampat, just behind the larger island of Batanta, and the resort occupies a peninsula on its north-eastern side. Its 26 bungalows stand on stilts over the house reef, built of local wood under thatch, each with a two-tier veranda facing the sunset; the diving writer John Liddiard … Read more
Max Ammer, a Dutchman, came to Indonesia in 1989, at 28, to salvage Second World War jeeps on Morotai, and moved on to Raja Ampat to look for American aircraft lost in the war, diving the wrecks alone with Papuan guides. He told the photographer Don Silcock that he stayed because he wanted a business … Read more
When Andrew and Marit Miners first dived off Batbitim, a small island in the far south of Raja Ampat, they found a shark-finning camp on its beach. Andrew asked the clans who held the area for permission to build a conservation centre there, and the elders gave it. Building began in 2005 and took about … Read more
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