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  Journey Throughout the Mergui archipelago

Mergui Archipelago consists of 800 islands of stunning, tropical beauty that man has scarcely touched, which is located at the south western part of Myanmar. Even though they posses quite long coastal area and many hundreds of islands, the ancient Myanmar ( Burmese ) rather interested to settled on the island.

The lack of human interference is believed to have left some of the larger islands with boar and many others. Apart from a few “Sea Gypsies (Morken), there’s not even and indigenous population.

Few strange quirks of history, most of the Mergui Archipelago has been left to birds, beasts and plants life. Most of islands are covered with the vivid green of topical rain forest and boundary by plain white sand beaches. Crystal clean water and beautiful coral life make to visitor to say “ That is tropical paradise.”

There are many beautiful islands in the archipelago. Among of them lampi, Clara, Gt.Swinton(Kyun Pi la), Pulau Beda(Nyaung Wee), Loungh borough(Jalan). The sisters (langan), Macleod (Khat Yin Khwa). Elphinstone and Ross island prominent.

There is a group of banks at the south western part of archipelago, known as Burma bank is quite famous dive spot in scuba divers world. Black Rock, Western rocky, Twin islands and OK rock are also famous for scuba diving. Pulau Beda. Lounghborough, Lampi. The sister and Elphinestone are main base islands for sea gypsies, who used to settle on those islands in the rainy season and travel around the islands in dry season. Although the town Mergui(Myeik) is the main city of this archiperago. The tourists who would like to travel through out the archipelago used Kawthoung(Victoria Point) as a gate way of Mergui archipelago. Tavoy is another big and famous city which located on the far north of archipelago.

 
 
 
 Other Diving Sites (Mergui Archipelago)
» Black Rock
» Shark Cave (OK Rock)
» Twins Island
» High Rock
» Western Rocky
» Burma Banks
» Little Torres Islands
» Tower Rock
 
     
 
 Diving Tour Programs
» Dive Trip MPST 001
» Dive Trip MPST 002
» Dive Trip MPST 003
"Journey Throughout the Mergui archipelago"
 
     
 
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Kawthoung
Kawthoung is the gate way of Mergui archipelago located at the southern edge of Myanmar. The town was build by British and named Victoria Point. There is a river name Perchan separate Kawthoung and Ranong of Thiland. Most of tourists come from Ranong to Kawthaung by crossing to the river with small long tail boat to enter to Myanmar’s virgin archipelago and some are come directly from Thailand’s most famous topical paradise city Phuket with liveabord boats and sailing boats.

The colorful people are living on that small town, among of them Burmese, Thai, Malay, Indian and Chinese are prominent. Nowadays, foreign people can use their passport to enter Kawthoung through Ranong. It’s a one of the gate at Phuket use for their visa extension. Local Thai people can use their local border pass book to visit Kawthoung. People with passport can go to Myeik and Dawei.
 
     
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