MV Marco Polo Departs Tap Lamu
Our liveaboard, the "MV Marco Polo", leaves Tap Lamu for this 7-day diving safari to the best dive sites on the Similan Islands, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock.
Your liveaboard tour starts on Friday morning. Together with a maximum of 11 other guests, you board the Marco Polo, receive an initial briefing from your tour leader and move into your cabin to enjoy the first few hours on board. 30 NM later we reach Koh Bon, your first dive site.
More experienced divers will also be given opportunity to dive at Koh Bon Pinnacle, one of the best Manta cleaning stations in Thailand. With a trip up North we will reach the next dive site, Koh Tachai, which is known to be a great place to spot a Manta Ray or even a Whale Shark. We will also do the night dive at this wonderful reef before we go to the world-famous Richelieu Rock the next morning. Awaiting you in the three following dives will be an astounding biodiversity and an impressive underwater scenery. For the night dive we will be back to Koh Tachai, where we will also do the first two dives on the following day.
The third dive on Sunday will take place at the Boonsung Wreck, a fascinating fish magnet, followed bay a stop at Tap Lamu, before our captain will drive you safely to the Similan Islands, about 35km away. On the morning of the forth day of the safari a dreamlike backdrop of the Similan Islands will await you with its crystal clear waters, granite rocks and white sandy beaches.
The first couple days of diving will be in the Similan National Park, including Koh Bon and Koh Tachai, both very good places for large fish encounters.
The northernmost point of the Phuket liveaboard is Richelieu Rock. The boat spends a whole day at this isolated offshore dive site, so there will be plenty of opportunities to marvel at the incredible abundance of fish, the biodiversity in the macro range and, with a bit of luck, a whale shark or manta rays.
On the following days the boat returns south again. On the last day there are two more dives in the Similan National Park before the boat makes its way home to Tap Lamu. For the last dive of the tour we will dive again at the fish magnet Boonsung Wreck.
Your liveaboard tour starts on Friday morning. Together with a maximum of 11 other guests, you board the Marco Polo, receive an initial briefing from your tour leader and move into your cabin to enjoy the first few hours on board.
30 NM later we reach Koh Bon, your first dive site.
More experienced divers will also be given opportunity to dive at Koh Bon Pinnacle, one of the best Manta cleaning stations in Thailand. With a trip up North we will reach the next dive site, Koh Tachai, which is known to be a great place to spot a Manta Ray or even a Whale Shark.
For the night dive on that day, we lie protected in front of the Surin Islands before we go to the world-famous Richelieu Rock the next morning. Awaiting you in the three following dives will be an astounding biodiversity and an impressive underwater scenery.
For the night dive we will be back to Koh Tachai, where we will also do the first two dives on the following day.
The final dive on Sunday will take place at the Boonsung Wreck, a fascinating fish magnet. We will then reach the port of Tap Lamu on Sunday evening at around 5:00 p.m.