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Karimunjava, Indonesia Who said tropical paradise? Bounty beaches, beautiful sunsets, and front row location where the sand from the bed gets into your bed because you are literary staying on the beach. Karimunjava is a precious little pearl of an island located a couple of hour’s boat ride from Jepara in Java, Indonesia. Karimunjava is an archipelago of 27 islands and while visiting, do yourself the favor and go visit a few. One of my favorite memories of this place was one night at our homestay when a thunderstorm hit the horizon. I and my travel companion were sitting in the oceans lovely warm water and watching as many as five lightings strike the surface of the ocean on the horizon. We spent a few hours sitting in the shallow water drinking tea and being entertained. It was amazing. The Island. This area is a national marine park. The main island(s) are of two small islands tugged together only separated by a small bridge. Karimunjava and Kemujan Islands. The s...

Diving has always been one of my favorite activities when going traveling. It is fun and beautiful and you get to discover such a different world when you are under the sea. A world of treasures and wonders... and so unlike the one above. Below I've gathered 7 of my favorite diving spots in South East Asia and Australia that I would recommend to everyone.  Enjoy 1. Coral Garden, Langkawi The most famous spot for diving around Langkawi is the Pulau Payar Marine Park. Located around an hour ferry ride south of Langkawi leaving the Kuah Jetty. I did two dives here. The main attraction is the Coral Garden. This dive-site is a shallow site with the coral-reef at around 10 meters depth. But don’t feel cheated. The rocks are covered with beautiful soft corals in clear white, blue and purple colors. You will also encounter plenty of the branching tree corals, anemones hiding schools of clownfish and huge sea fans. There is a great variety of plant and animal wildlife with many of t...

The HMAS Adelaide is the most amazing wreck dive I’ve ever done, and I’ve done it three times. Each time exploring new parts of the huge ship. The HMAS Adelaide is an old WW2 battleship measuring 138 meters long. It was sunk in 2011 to create an artificial reef and a wreck diving site. It is an amazing experience to explore this huge ship and with the artificially created holes in the wreck it gives more light inside the wreck and makes penetration of the wreck safe. Does it sound cool? It is cool. The shipwreck is on fairly shallow waters. The deck is located on around 15 m. and the bottom of the ship hits the sand at around 32 m. This gives you quite a good amount of bottom time if you know how to use it well.  When you dive around the ship the visibility is quite good and you can’t help enjoying yourself when you find the captain’s chair where you can sit in his chair pick up the phone and pretend you are cruising around.  In the exploration, you c...

Wow! Need I say more? Pescador Island is  certainly  a place you can enjoy diving. It has such a diversity in a dive spot that it can be recommended for every diver from your first couple of dives to experienced divers like my self.   Diving on the reef is exceptional. The reef consists of a shallow coral plateau that leads to impressive drop-off with a steep wall which is where my dive started. Around 25-30 meters down this steep wall, we entered in to and started exploring some amazing cave formations. The visibility was amazing even at this dept and cave diving is always really cool. It always gives me a bit of chill entering into caves and confined spaces, especially underwater. But starting off with this gave me an extra punch of adrenaline to use for the rest of the dive. . Once out of the caves you slowly move up to more shallow waters. The reef is gorgeous and turns more and more beautiful as the color and light become stronger. The reef is...