Selayar Island

Nearby dive sites

• Pulau Kambing, located in the Selayar Straits. It has white tipped and black tipped sharks, bumhead parrotfishes, scorpionfishes, cuttlefish or an octopus and with luck the zebra batfish.
• Selayar Atoll: 10 min to 1 hour, slopes down to, sandy bottom, sea slugs, napoleon fishes, pipe fishes, Dugong.
• Selayar East: 1 to 2 hours, pelagic fishes, sometimes manta rays.

  Other sites

• Mountain View: at Puncak. 1 hours trip to up hill. From here you can see both eastern part and western part of Selayar's beaches. When the wind blows from the west at Oct - March, Selayarese at the west side buy fish from the eastern part, as big wave smashes the west side. And vice versa when the wind blows from the east on April - Sept, the big wave hit the eastern side. People can choose the best place for diving, snorkeling or fishing all over the year in this island.
• Farmer Villages: 1 hour south from Benteng you can find Galung and Pariangang villages. Here people farm in a traditional way.