Burma liveaboard trips with Mermaid1 leave from Phuket on Thailand's west coast for a fantastic 9 day safari. Travelling overnight on the first night to dive the Similan islands in Thailand before heading north into Burma to begin your Burma diving experience. Discover the best of both countries on this superb Burma liveaboard trip.
Mermaid2 is also available for full charters to Burma - please visit the links above for more details.
Burma liveaboard
safaris with Mermaid leave from Phuket on Thailand's west coast. Travelling north to the
border crossing into Burma we spend a couple of days diving the Similan islands along the way to the Kawthong immigration checkpoint for Mynamar. Burma liveaboards are not as problematic as some may think. The main ad
vantage is you travel there by boat, no flying into Yangoon. Mermaid's
Burma liveaboard safari leaves for the diving from Phuket, Thailand and arrives
at Kawthong, the Burma immigration point for this trip. The immigration offcials come on to
the boat, you pay for your visa (US$230) and in about one hour, after some shopping around the town, you leave to begin your Burma liveaboard experience.
Burma is an amazing place. The Mergui Archipelago contains over 800 islands and is sparsley populated by Mokken, Burmese sea gypsies, that stay for months at a time on their boats fishing and living amongst the islands and Mangrove swamps.
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The special thing about scuba diving in Burma is that you really feel like you are out there doing something unusual and not following the tourist trail. You rarely see another dive boat and the sites are many, varied and spread over a large area. Hundreds of islands hide new dive spots that are found each year, dolphins and whales are not uncommon sights and the mangroves present other treasures such as dugongs, kingfishers, wild pigs and monkeys, there's even reports of tigers and elephants hiding in there, a possibility not as far fetched as it sounds as both were once common here. Please note the Thai Immigration laws at the Ranong border have changed. When guests re-enter Thailand after a cruise to Burma they will be given only a 15 DAY visa for Thailand.