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Raja Ampat (Paradise of Divers)

For those of you who love the sport of diving, i am sure your life will feel incomplete if you have not visited this place. This underwater paradise is located between four adjacent group of islands (Waigeo Island, Misool Island, Salawati Island, and Batanta Island) in the western part of Papua island vogelkoop.   The origin of the name of Raja Ampat by local myth comes from a woman who found seven eggs. Four eggs hatch into four princes who split up and each one becomes a very powerful king in Waigeo, Salawati, East Misool and West Misool. Meanwhile, three other eggs became a ghost, a woman, and a stone. Waters of Raja Ampat Islands is one of the 10 best dive sites in the world, and number one for the completeness of underwater flora and fauna today. In these waters there are at least more than 540 species of hard corals (75% of the total species in the world), more than 1,000 species of reef fish and 700 types of mollusks. None of the places with the same area has a number o