We have 150+ dives in the Caribbean, mostly Bonaire.. Want to experience something different, liveaboard would be difficult as I do get very seasick. We have 2 weeks, a 15k budget, and August 2014 date. Any advice would be greatly appreciated...
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You should certainly go somewhere in the Pacific zone of the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Palau... Lots of land-based options. Do you want wrecks, sharks, nudibranchs, weird critters in the muck, drift dives with current...? Are you heavy into photography, or not? Staying in full luxury with lots of service, or keen on seeing more of the way the locals live by being at a place in a village? What's your tolerance for multiple flights and car/boat transfers to arrive at your destination? Spend 12 days at one place, or 6+5 with a day of transfer?
With that time and that budget you have lots of fantastic options.
Do you want wrecks, sharks, nudibranchs, weird critters in the muck, drift dives with current...?
What's your tolerance for multiple flights and car/boat transfers to arrive at your destination?
The only tricky part will be that we do need the ability to call home as our parents are both aging so the ability to check the Homefront is a must. Thank you again for all of your advice.
... We did a drift dive that had the speed of a carousel on LSD...we're still laughing about that.