Ban­das under­wa­ter world is just unbe­liev­ably stun­ning. The coral is still intact and there are fish every­where. Among other mar­ine life you can see sharks and turtles, great bar­rac­cuda, dog tooth tuna, clown trig­ger­fish, squid and napo­leon wrasses while just snork­ling. The walls, that start just a few meters off the beaches are so deep you can’t see the bot­tom, not even when you have 50 m vis­ib­il­ity and free­d­ive down to 25 m! Diving must be awe­some there!! While I was there the one dive school on the islands was closed due to ramadan. No guides would go in the water, cause obvi­ously you will get little amounts of water into your mouth and that counts as drink­ing! Just one more reason to go back to those charm­ing islands… Con­tinue read­ing →