Burma Diving safaris
 | Discover the untouched beauty of this remote area. The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar (Burma) consist of more than 800 tropical islands. In addition to diving the best sites like Black Rock, these Islets, Western Rocky as well as the Burma Banks, the amount of islands provides the chance to make discovery dives on sites never dived before. Our aim is usually to show you the very best diving the Mergui Archipelago and Burma Banks can give.
Burma Diving safaris The variety of scenery and wildlife to appear topside is just a small taste products to expect underwater. Dive site topography includes huge granite boulders featuring swim throughs, island fringing rocky sloping reefs, submerged limestone pinnacles, limestone caves, dramatic archways and overhangs, limestone walls, sloping coral reefs and large submerged rocky, sand banks covering many square kilometres.??Numerous species or soft corals enjoy the limestone rock inside a dazzling display of colours, huge gorgonian sea fans form forests underwater all teeming with colourful reef fish. Large numbers of crustaceans along with moray eels hide in cracks and overhangs, while scorpion fish and octopus sit camouflaged around the purple and violet algae covered rocks.??For the people with a keen eye, seahorses, ornate ghost pipefish, frogfish and stonefish are typical on many sites. Schooling fish dart occasionally, harried by the patrolling barracuda, rainbow runners, tuna, trevelly and Spanish mackerel, while large stingrays and occasionally sharks can be seen cruising the deeper waters. Even though the Mergui Archipelago is becoming more popular, because of the large, remote area included in a burma diving safari it is highly likely you will be the only divers on a particular dive site. Avoiding the crowds allows you to dive at your own pace and spend just as much time as you like enjoying the underwater life that interests you the most. This is a appealing factor to underwater photographers the ones wishing to spot shy underwater creatures. Over a typical live-aboard safari not only will you dive the best, most famous Mergui Archipelago and Burma Banks dive sites another highlight is scope to try somewhere new on every trip. The multitude of islands makes discovery dives possible at many locations, think of the excitement and adventure to be able to dive somewhere previously unknown! Burma Diving Safaris over the Mergui Archipelago gives enough time to dive and discover famous dive sites like the Burma Banks where you can experience huge pristine coral banks with an above average chance of seeing nurse sharks or Black Rock famous for Giant Manta Ray sightings. Imagine diving without any other dive boats coming soon, exploring deserted, white sandy beaches, case a taste of what the Mergui Archipelago can give. Known locally since the Myeik Archipelago, the Mergui Archipelago begins at the boarder with Thailand in southern Myanmar (Burma) and stretches over 450km northwards and 160km west to the Andaman Sea. The archipelago is called after the town of Mergui which has been once a major sea port to the Kingdom of Siam when Thailand ruled over parts of Burma and later for the British after they colonised Burma.?Since the late 1940's the hawaiian islands reverted to a state of important isolation, inhabited by small populations of Moken, sometimes called sea gypsies. Comprising of over 800 islands the Mergui Archipelago remains mostly of the places in the world still providing the chance of discovery and adventure. Burma Diving safaris The geological diversity the hawaiian islands that make up the Mergui Archipelago is merely breathtaking! The sea scape is punctuated by large granite islands, some hundreds of square kilometres long, covered in dense rainforest, dotted with white sandy beaches along the shoreline and fringed with coral reefs visible underneath the turquoise waters.?These islands support an incredible variety of flora and fauna. Look out for sea otters, monkeys, wild boar, small deer and the vast array of birds and reptiles that inhabit the lager islands. As opposed hundreds of smaller limestone islands jut in the sea forming spectacular shapes that defy the imagination. Even the smallest, most inhospitable limestone pinnacles are where you can birds such as herons and sea eagles and in some cases even trees. Burma Diving safaris |
