Dive sites at the Similan Islands in Thailand

Nine small granite islands and their surrounding reefs form the Similan Islands. Generally speaking, this is the best place in Thailand to go diving, with water temperatures between 27 and 29 degrees, lot's of aquatic life and many different types of dives suiting all level of divers. The East coast with its hard coral reefs and many fish is quite different than the West coast. There you will find boulders, caves, swimthroughs and huge fans, all formed because of its strong currents which have removed all the sand surrounding these rock formations.

From out of Thailand, Phuket and Kho Lak, a limited amount of live-aboard trips and overnight trips can be booked. In general they run from October through May, but the best months are November through April, when visibility tend to be between 20 and 40 meter.

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1. Batfish Bend : Batfish Bend is a dive site which is patrolled by a group of more than fifty longfin batfish.
2. Boulder City : Boulder City is a large dive site where you dive at huge rocks, pinnacles and coral heads.
3. Christmas Point : Christmas Point is a maze of swimthroughs, arches and rocky terrain surrounded with fish and covered in the best colours.
4. Deep Six : Deep Six is a ridge featuring a huge boulder surrounded with smaller rocks creating excellent swimmthroughs.
5. Donald Duck Bay : Donald Duck Bay is a gem for snorkellers named after a rock that resembles the cartoon character.
6. East Of Eden : East of Eden has one of the largest single coral bommies with a size of more than ten meters high.
7. Elephant's Head Rock : Elephants Head or Hin Pusar is a submerged boulder just reaching the surface just south of Ko Similan.
8. Fantasea Reef : At Fantasy Reef you can see many hugged boulders separated by valleys full of coral and marine life.
9. Rocky Point : Rocky Points, one of the southern most dive sites in the Similans, is a ridge formed out of rock formations swarmed with fish life.
10. Shark Fin Reef : Shark Fin Reef is an amazing dive spotting many reef and leopard sharks while drift diving along a narrow ridge.
11. Snapper Alley : Snapper Alley is an area with many boulders famous for the many snappers that hover around.
12. Stonehenge : Stonehenge has become famous because of its boulder formations resembling the famous stones in England.

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