Supreme Day Trip.

M/V Manta Queen III

A day trip to the Similans is a great choice for both divers and snorkelers. If you don’t have the time to do a live-aboard trip, or simply don’t wish to stay on the reef, you may wish to book a day trip to the Similans with Khao Lak Scuba Adventures or a day trip to the dive sites around Khao Lak.

For the certified diver, we offer dive guides. If you are not a certified diver you may want to just snorkel or try an introductory scuba dive. Discover Scuba Diving program offers you the opportunity to explore the underwater world with a scuba dive instructor. The program is very easy and requires no previous experience.

Most day trip boats are slow big boat, they take about 3 hours from Tublamu pier to the Similans. Khao Lak Scuba adventures offer 2 boats for a day trip, the speed boat with 4 engines will transfer you to the Similans within 1hr 20 minutes and our M/V Manta Queen III is permanently waiting somewhere in a beautiful bay at the Similans.

Most day boats usually depart from Tublamu pier at 8am – 9pm, Khao Lak Scuba Adventures’ boat leave at approximately 9am. We start the pick up at 7am. As soon as you are on M/V Manta Queen III at the Similans, we will serve you some snacks and drinks. After the boat briefing and dive briefing the snorkelers will get back on the speedboat to go to a shallow reef or the beach. The big boat will take divers to dive.

After the dive, divers and snorkelers will meet up at the big boat to have lunch and relax. After lunch, the snorkelers will go to a different place for snorkeling and the divers will go diving at a different dive site.

Everybody gets back to the big boat again after the 2^nd dive and have some fruits, snacks and drinks before heading back to Tublamu by speedboat. You will arrive in Khao Lak at about 6pm with a big smile and the experience of your life.

Khaolak Scuba Adventures run the day trip to the Similans National Park from the 15 October to 15 May every year.

A shrine of the household god.

Our shrines for the household god.

A shrine of the household god can commonly be found in front of Thai houses. This shrine is usually a small structure or a setup of a small house or small temple on a stake and has-figurines dedicated to a spirit or god that is part of the official religion, to ancestors or to a localized household spirit or god. Brahmin is the person who tell the owner of the house where the best place to put the shrine is, most of the time in front of the house facing east or north.

Small household shrines are very common among the Thai. Usually some flowers and small offerings are put daily by the shrine. On the Buddhist day of worship the Thai will put food , flowers and drink on the shrine to worship a spirit or god.

A household spirit or god is the one that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. Many Thais believe that the shrine will bring luck, success in bussiness and make people in the house happy. It has been a common belief in folklore across many parts of the world to be true.

Khao Lak Scuba Adventures will make a ceremony by a Brahmin to set up the shrine of household god on the 13 of June 2011. The pictures will be follow on our Facebook Khao Lak Scuba Adventures.

What can do in Khao Lak from June to September?

Sunset at Khao Lak Beach.

Khao Lak's high season from October to May is when The Similans National Marine Park is open. The Marine Park attracts many tourist who come to Khao Lak to start their scuba diving trip to The Similans. It can sometime make Khao Lak crowded and more expensive, especially over the Christmas and New Year holiday periods. During the low season from June to October The Similans National Park is closed, the hotel prices are down, and Khao Lak become peaceful again. Tourists sometime wonder what can they do when there're in Khao Lak if the Similans are closed?

Khao Lak Scuba Adventures offers a day trip to Phuket, or Khao Sok Lake from June until September. Very few travel agencies offer any day trips to places around Khao Lak and Phang Nga. You can visit the lake at Khao Sok which has a very nice view, Phang Nga bay, Elephant tracking, surfing, tracking to the waterfalls or view point, or have the beach for yourself.

The weather is not too hot in the low season. It rains often, but isn't recommend for anyone to visit Khao Lak during this time unless you love rain!

If you want to escape from the crowds and chaos during low season, Khao Lak is the best place to come!

What is a Live-aboard diving trip?

Dive!

If you are planning your next dive holiday and you’re not sure where to go or what to do, then consider going on a Live-aboard diving trip. It doesn’t matter if you have 10 or 500 dives under your weight belt, anyone that loves to dive and relax will absolutely love to relax on board of a Dive vessel.

Live-aboard diving trips are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways of comfortably experiencing diving in locations around the world. Live-aboard vessels are exactly that, live on board and you’re eating and breathing diving. Everything is focused on diving. You eat, sleep, dive whenever your computer says, “GO”, and you’ll travel from dive site to dive site, seeing the most beautiful places in the world. Live-aboard can offer dive sites usually hard to reach by daily diving boats, making it interesting to visit remote islands or reefs.

Eat!

Live-aboard dive vessels give you a wider range of destinations than day trips. Live-aboard vessels typically range from 18m/60ft to 40m/120 ft in length or larger and offer the ability to cover a wide and extended diving range as opposed to a day charter, which returns to dock each night. If you’re into large crowds or you like solitude and tranquility, you don’t have to worry. There is a vessel for everyone’s needs.

Trip lengths of live-a board vacations typically range from three to ten or more days. Most vessels depart the dock in the afternoon or evening, as the distances involved usually require overnight travel. When you awake in the morning, you’re on that breathtaking location and diving commences.

Sleep!

Most live- aboard vacations are designed to serve all of your diving needs, as well to provide you a high level of comfort while on board. Live-aboard vacations cater to their customers by providing excellent, gourmet meals and snacks, clean and comfortable sleeping quarters, TVs and DVD/VCR players for an evening of movie watching, plenty of hot water showers, photo/video stations for equipment and editing, tanks with air or Nitrox and weights for every dive, plenty of professional crew members to guarantee your comfort. Live-aboard diving trips are about diving and there is no shortage of that. Typically, depending on where you’re diving, you can get up to 5 dives a day if you’re up to it. The average is 3-4 dives per day. Liveaboard dive trips are about relaxing as well. Many vessels have lounging decks to work on your suntan, read, or simply catch up on your sleep if you are escaping a stressful job. Whether you want to make only two dives per day, eat heartily, and relax, or make six or more dives a day and pass out in your cabin from exhaustion and get up the next day and do it again, Liveaboard trips can accommodate.

Khao Lak Scuba Adventures offers 4-day/4-night live-aboard trips to the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock between October 15 and May 15 every year. Our fleet consists of the M/V Manta Queen I, M/V Manta Queen II and M/V Manta Queen III. To see the various features of each and decide which is right for you please see our web site or send email to bee@khaolakscubaadventures.com
                                                                           Story by: Simine Reymenants
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