Maratua - Sangalaki

World renowned as the center of Manta Rays, Sangalaki has a wide variety of dives sites, but is best known for these graceful and harmless rays that can have a wing span over 3 meters from tip to tip.

3 main dive sites to the east of the island are Manta Avenue, Manta Parade and Manta Run - where the manta rays can be found feeding, gills wide open, on a rich supply of plankton just minutes from the beach. The mantas can sometimes be seen cruising down these manta highways, while Eagle and Bull rays can be found foraging through the sand, followed by an entourage of goatfish and other curious and hungry companions.

Manta Rays often prefer to swim close to the surface, so snorkeling or free diving is also a good way to interact with them, as their wing tips break the surface at regular intervals as they circle around you. The best times to see them seems to be around full moons, when there might be as many as 20 mantas hovering over the cleaning stations.