Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Best diving in SE Asia??

Interest forums / Diving & Snorkelling

Please rate these sites - and feel very welcome to add more that I haven't heard of. I have the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the Philippines and may also be able to get to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

If you have time, also please add bottom time highlights or hidden jewels and Top Side favorite attractions.

Dive Site / "must see" rating

Apo Island / my personal 10, but probably a 9 or?
Puerto Galera
Malapascua
Tubbatha
Palawan (where?)
Moalboal
Siquijor
Where else in the Philippines?

Perhentians
Gili islands
Kalimantan/ Borneo??

Similans

Also feel free to check out the answers from the SE Asia site here.

Just visited Malapascua before this Chinese New Year.
It was awesome.
Very nice island with nice people, fantastic in the water (with the sharks and corals)
check out our photos
http://picasaweb.google.com/tw.joanna/Malapascua2008
been to Puerto Galera
also nice, but bit too busy for me

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Lembeh strait / Indonesia (look it up on youtube to get an impression)
I completed my list of must-see fish there... never seen so many odd critters in one dive.

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