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Me and my wife are finally ready to do our first liveaboard. Trying to find best option for us. We are looking to spend a week or a little more on the boat diving and a week on shore exploring\lying on the beach\doing something else. I would like to keep our budget under $4000 pp for liveaboard + airfare. And can go anytime in 2016. We are mostly interested in pelagics, but certainly don't mind muck diving or some nice lively reefs. Red Sea (lliveaboard+week in Cairo, Luxor etc) and Thailand (going to Similans for diving and than to Cambodia to see temples) seem to fit perfectly, but we lived in Europe before and been diving these places many times, so looking for something different and little more exotic. Plus diving quality is the main factor. Also warm water is a big plus.
Our dream destinations are Galapagos, Palau, Cocos and Truk, but all of them do not fit in our price range and don't really have good land based options. We do not really know much about other liveaboard destinations.
We don't want to go to Australia, but other then that open to everything else. We do not have any restrictions on flight times or anything like that and we are not afraid to go to some remote destination.
For land part we just want something exotic to explore with good beach destination, preferably without having to share the beach with huge AI hotels (thinking places similar to Tulum or Phi Phi Don, or places like Phuket and Bali will do also). We don't mind a 2-3 hour flight from liveabord destination to our land destination (if it is not very expensive). Low cost country for land destination is better, we are not interested in luxury resorts anyway.
What should we research? Indonesia (Raja Ampat? Komodo?), Phillipines, somewhere else?
Our dream destinations are Galapagos, Palau, Cocos and Truk, but all of them do not fit in our price range and don't really have good land based options. We do not really know much about other liveaboard destinations.
We don't want to go to Australia, but other then that open to everything else. We do not have any restrictions on flight times or anything like that and we are not afraid to go to some remote destination.
For land part we just want something exotic to explore with good beach destination, preferably without having to share the beach with huge AI hotels (thinking places similar to Tulum or Phi Phi Don, or places like Phuket and Bali will do also). We don't mind a 2-3 hour flight from liveabord destination to our land destination (if it is not very expensive). Low cost country for land destination is better, we are not interested in luxury resorts anyway.
What should we research? Indonesia (Raja Ampat? Komodo?), Phillipines, somewhere else?