Diving Raja Ampat onboard the Paradise Dancer

The 188-foot Paradise Dancer is the largest yacht in the Dancer Fleet; the Deluxe cabins are 180 sq ft and the Suite is an incredible 470 sq ft!

This stately three-masted wooden motor schooner was modeled after the ornate ships built in the late 1800s. It features high-end Peter Hughes-style amenities with interiors designed like that of a “floating boutique resort.”
All furniture is unique and was designed by a well-known French designer who combined the best of classic and modern styles in the most tasteful manner.

The 188-foot Paradise Dancer is the largest yacht in the Dancer Fleet

As stunningly beautiful above water as it is below, Raja Ampat (which literally translates as “The Four Kings”) has a startling diversity of habitats to explore. Each of these – from the stark wave-pounded slopes that drop away beneath the karst cliffs of Wayag and Uranie to the deep, nutrient-rich bays of Mayalibit, Kabui and Aljui to the “blue water mangrove” channels of Kofiau and Gam to the plankton-rich upwelling areas of Misool and the Dampier Strait – are home to unique assemblages of species that, when taken together, add to produce the most impressive species lists ever compiled for a coral reef system of this size.

Marine tourism, as a sustainable alternative to overfishing, mining, and logging, has the potential to play a key role in the conservation of Raja Ampat’s spectacular underwater realm, while also creating real benefits for the local communities.

The area known as Raja Ampat (or the Four Kings) is an archipelago consisting of the islands of Misoool, Salawati, Batanta, and Wiageo which are surrounded by over 1,500 small islands and cays. Formerly known as Irian Jaya, this area is now part of the newly named West Papua province of Indonesia and is located on the northwest tip of Bird’s Head Peninsula, on the island of New Guinea.

This is the 5th Dancer Fleet® destination located in the Coral Triangle which is the world’s most biodiverse marine region with more recorded fish, coral and mollusk species than anywhere else on Earth.

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