Raja Ampat

By Karl Klingeler & Linda Johnston. A little over 4 years ago, we left the Seven Seas and our home in Bali to embark on “The Trip of a Lifetime”: 3 months in Africa followed by a 9 month road trip around the western United States. Along the way, we visited many of our Seven […]

By Lida Pet-Soede. Just before 2022 was over, Jos and I managed to start our much anticipated ‘nomadic’ life. And what a start: as our original plans for a month-long stay in South Alor fell through, Mark Heighes offered us to join the new year’s cruise to Raja Ampat: this was the best Christmas gift!

By Anita Lococo. Photos by Group Members and Foued Kaddachi. We, as a group, were so lucky to experience Raja Ampat, together, from the backyard of our home island, Bali. Soma Temple, a long-time resident of Bali invited her family and friends of whom her grown up kids were raised in Bali, with their own

By Foued Kaddachi. Photos by Thomas Koenye. Leaving the port of Sorong well behind us on the first day of our adventure, we are crossing the Dampier Strait towards Waigeo Island, the first of the “Four Kings” that dominate the Raja Ampat archipelago. As we are cruising along the east side of the second King,

By Mark Heighes ​Every once in a while Seven Seas is contracted by a film production company. This time the shoot will take place in West Papua, formally known to me and many of you as Irian Jaya. It was Irian Jaya when I first visited a spectacularly wild and beautiful place named Triton Bay

By Alex del Olmo, Cruise Director on the Seven Seas We just finished our crossing from Sorong to Kaimana, on the first leg of our current film expedition. Hit our targets in Raja Ampat, got what we hoped for there, and then started exploring Triton Bay and surrounding areas, off the South West coast of

Trip Report & photos by Tommy Schultz. It’s just before first light as Captain Abdul Rifai guides the Seven Seas towards Sawandarek village in central Raja Ampat. The clank of the anchor chain is our nautical alarm clock this morning – time to dive! After a quick briefing from Cruise Director Alex, we’re speeding across