There’s a lot of hype about Wakatobi. I suppose it started when Jacques Cousteau said that Wakatobi is “probably the finest diving site in the world”. However, with hype comes high expectations. My high expectations were slightly tempered by knowing that most of the hard coral at snorkeling depths in Wakatobi is dead. However, it didn’t seem like that to me because I had done enough research to know where to snorkel. As far as I know, we snorkeled at only the best spots on Pulau Tomia and chartered a boat one day to take us out to a “world-class reef”.
Pulau Tomia is the “to” in Wakatobi. The other eponymous islands are Wangiwangi, Kaledupa, and Binongko. Our first island in Wakatobi was Tomia, on a direct boat from Baubau, a 15-hour trip that some people would call an “adventure”. I was very happy to have Dramamine.
Our boat came into Waitii, not Waha, where most of the accommodation is.
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