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Contents 1 Understand 2 Prepare 3 Get in 4 Go 5 Stay safe 6 Get out

Understand

This itinerary is for beginner scuba divers, who don't want 100% diving. If you're completely new to scuba diving, take a three or four day open water course during your first scuba stop, although this will mean spending a day or two in a classroom and at the bottom of a resort pool. Good food, culture and sights to be had, with three dive destinations.

Prepare

Get in

Go

• Fly to Bangkok, Thailand, 5 days
  • Get good, inexpensive Thai massages to get over jetlag
• Fly to Phuket, Thailand, do a liveaboard to the Similan Islands, 4 days. Fantastic diving and possibly the cheapest place in the world to do a full service liveaboard.
  • If learning to dive here, you may wish to allow at least 5 or 6 days, as your course may take 4 days and you must not dive on the last day before flying.
• Fly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 3 days
  • Side trip to either Penang or Malacca, 2 days
• Drive/ferry (or fly) to Tioman Island on east coast of peninsular Malaysia for 4 days of scuba diving
  • Go diving by speedboat, means less time in transit, more in water
• Fly to Cebu, Philippines, 5 days
  • Ferry to Bohol for diving, dolphin watching
• Fly to Singapore, enjoy civilization, 2 days
• Fly to Bali, Indonesia experience culture with scuba diving at the north end of the island near Lovina, 1 week

Stay safe

Remember to allow 24 hours between your last dive at any location and getting on an plane! Also, travel insurance covering diving is a must for diving in Southeast Asia. Recompression chambers are privately run and expensive.

Get out

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