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-A typical scuba diving travel destination is southern Thailand.

Scuba diving and liveaboard trips to the Andaman Sea are a unique experience. Thailand and Myanmar or Burma are both bordering the Andaman Sea.

Liveaboard scuba diving trips in this area are mainly operated out of Phuket since there are no dive center north of the Surin Archipelago, the most north good diving ground about 200 km north of Phuket. In between, about 100 km north of Phuket is one of the best scuba diving area of the planet, this are the Similan Islands embedded into the Similan Marine National Park. The Islands and the area around are accessible only from Khao Lak on the land side or via liveaboard from Phuket.

There is no diving center on the islands and also no air fill or whatever. Only on the main Similan Island are about 8 Thai style bungalows. All is done to keep nature intact, the best probably is to book a diving trip in the hotel at Khao Lak and do the dive trip to the islands by speedboat or bigger vessel from the Lam Ru pier.

Phuket has several underwater attractions of its own and around the islands, like Phi Phi Islands, Coral Island and towards Krabi and Trang.

In the Myeik Archipelago up north in Myanmar or Burma everything is done by liveaboard out of Phuket. In Myanmar or Burma are no dive center and no scuba diving shops.

This area had almost no contact to foreigners since the nineteen century. The last times foreigners were seen in the Myanmar Andaman Sea was during British colonial time, now slowly some liveaboard diving tours are filling the gap.

-Diving in the Red Sea

Egypt diving means Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada diving, the right destination for dive tours, its great red sea diving exploring corals and shipwrecks. The right dive vacation are waiting there, sometimes it gets a little bit crowded, when to many diving ships come to a certain dive ground at the same time.

Very interesting diving vacation in the red sea further down in Saudi Arabia but the Saudis wont allow western tourists in. I had the opportunity several years ago to go on diving trips south of Jeddah in the red sea and this was real great.

A totally untouched scuba diving environ with great coral banks and huge fishes, I once had a encounter with a huge creature about 6 meters long, but I was not able to identify the fish since I was below the huge creature and stayed away from close contact.

The Saudi people don't do scuba diving and intensive fishing, that is the reason for this virgin environment. It would be the ultimate dive vacations on a red sea holiday but as mentioned above its almost impossible to go there.

But anyway Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada diving are the right spots for great shipwreck diving in the red sea. Dive trips are easily organized via the hotel or the scuba diving travel agent also available as red sea liveaboard. If you are there for scuba vacations but have no prior knowledge of scuba diving they also offer scuba lessons.

-Diving the "Thistlegorm" wreck in the red sea.

The Thistlegorm is a war-relic in the Red Sea and probably the most visited wreck dive site in the world. About 100.000 scuba diver visit the wreck annually. The Thistlegorm was a British "Armed Freighter" in the second world war with some guns mounted on the vessel. Built in 1940 the ship was 126.5m in length and displaced 4,898 gross tones.

Now the wreck is a scuba diving attraction in the Red Sea accessible by boat from Sharm El Sheikh or Hurghad.

The scuba diver can still see the cargo of the freighter, on two decks are trucks, motorbikes and other parts. After almost seven decades most parts of the ship are somehow overgrown by coral and underwater greenery.

In the night of the 5th October 1941 the ship was anchored, waiting for permission to pass the Suez Canal, as at 10.50 pm two German Heinkel He 111 attacked at low-level, bombs hit the ship and brought large quantities of ammunition to explode. The "Thistlegorm" was shredded amidships and sank within a few minutes into the 31 meter deep seabed. Nine people died, 30 survived.

-Diving Travel at the Indonesian Lembeh Strait is something different, some of the very rare underwater creatures are around, one of them is the Mimic Octopus.

The scuba dive in this part of Indonesia is rather untypical compared to other tropical dive destinations; there are no corals, no good visibility and no big fishes. Only black lava sand and some junk from the ships passing by. But the Lembeh Strait, a deep water channel north of Sulawesi, is a diving travel paradise of small monsters. There are the bizarre angler fish, shrimps and dazzling colorful mandarin fish.

The underwater world is full of mysteries. Another octopus at Sulawesi often seen, is as beautiful as potentially deadly. The blue ring octopus has a poison produced by bacteria in its saliva, which after a bite paralyses to muscle, iris, heart and intestine and after breathing stops. The few centimeters measured small octopus is one of the most poisonous creatures in the world, but unless a barefoot diver accidentally step on him the sea creature remains harmless: The rather biggest difficulty is to be discovered at all. What seems impossible to see for tourist diver, local guides see immediately. What is hidden somewhere on their way, it is also detected.

It’s a great diving travel destination for the casual underwater explorer with a camera or video device, there is hardly any other place around the world with such a density of strange and bizarre underwater creatures in the only three kilometers wide Straits between the island of Sulawesi and Lembeh.

A mandarin fish can be spotted in the Island world of the Philippines and some other places in the Pacific. The Philippines are all together around 7107 islands with coasts of around 35.000 kilometers, the right place for diving travel and vacations.

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