http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Dive-Safari/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Dive Safari en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:16:08 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:16:08 +0000 Earlier this month we embarked on a trip through North Sumatra joined by DIVE magazines reporter Charlotte Boan. Our eleven day tour started in the inland jungle of Bukit Lawang from there we made our way to Pulau Weh island in the north .Our intention was to promote North Sumatra as a tourist destination through Dive Safari Asia particularly Pulau Weh and Bukit Lawang which have in recent year http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-300531.html We moved on last week the Similans diving season came to an end at least the calm waters anyway so we joined the exodus of divers to the East coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The journey on the whole went pretty well being familiar with Malaysian buses which generally make National Express coaches look like cattle wagons we thought the journey would be fairly straight forward the last trip we ma http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-273726.html I think we fell into the same trap as everybody else when Paul first asked us if we wanted to make a dive on Boonsung Wreck this being the first time we had heard of it. While the Similans and other surrounding sites are constantly featured in write ups from magazines and reef guides Boonsung has remained something of a mystery except from the local guides who work here and know better. Located http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Similan-Marine-NP/blog-251521.html Wersquod been on dry land for about a week before we started to twiddle our fingers and conjure up imaginative ways for getting one of the local operators to allow us one their free spaces only encouraged by the recent Whale Shark sightings at Richelieu Rock. The Similan and Surin Islands are 70Kmrsquos offshore and a liveaboard or sleepover boat is usually the norm so we knew it wasnrsquo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Similan-Marine-NP/blog-248477.html