The Banda Islands

Banda is magical. It features so much and while it's not for everyone, the people who were there had already visited multiple times over the decades and want to stay as long as the visa allows. I suppose you can get addicted to the relaxed style. If you only want to come for a couple of days then this isn't really the place to fit into a tight, fixed schedule.

Side panel: the Indo visa issue is that you have to extend after 1 month and you need to return to an immigration office which would be in Ambon but you have to wait several working days to get your passport back and the ferry/flights aren't often enough to make this a quick hop. Thus: come with a fresh visa if you plan to stay for 2-3 weeks because extending is a major problem. Maybe at one point they'll introduce the 2 month visa commonly to avoid this problem because it's also very annoying going on lengthy liveaboards.

As I've begun talking about logistics then let's start with that. You can get a flight from Ambon. It's twice a week, schedule is sort of fixed and you can also continue east if you prefer that, however, you can ONLY buy tickets from an agent and that agent only sells you when the schedule is confirmed, meaning a month before or so. That's a big problem for organizing your trip well so you have to be flexible. It also …