Avoiding the crowds - Where to go???

[diversteve]

I understand Timor has yet to attract crowds.

DILI, East Timor - East Timor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after attacks on the country's top leaders in a failed coup left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds East Timor declares state of emergency - Yahoo! News

 

[Luko]

With the same "non touristy" requirements but with more money in my wallet, I'd put high on my list these two :
Uepi in the Solomon islands,
Kri island in West Papua... (although it seems a place more for coral life than really big pelagics)

If you don't mind to rough it a bit, I would go for :
Alor Divers in Indonesia, where everythng can happen.
This other one in Selayar is supposed to be a shark mecca but the usual dives can get really deep down like 50m.

The last really non touristy place I went was northern Mozambique, in a place called fim do mundo (end of the world... and it is...). I could recommend it without any reservations (be warned : rustic!) but it's mostly for small critters buffs, although april and may is Mola Mola time and from August to november, whale watching period.

 

[Frog-fish]

Can recommend New Caledonia for what you are looking for, but an expensive place to get to and stay.....

 

[caringbah]

Try Niue and maybe combine it with the Solomons or Kiribati or PNG

 

[DennisS]

ofu somoa

 

[Travelnsj]

I go to remote place like Fakarava, Christmas Island (Kiribati), East Timor and Papua..... pristine reefs, no crowds, lots and lots of sea life and the finest diving on this planet.....although I still like Palau!

 

[Travelnsj]

DILI, East Timor - East Timor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after attacks on the country's top leaders in a failed coup left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds East Timor declares state of emergency - Yahoo! News

I was there in 2006 4 months after the 30 or so police officers were killed.....I felt safer there than I would in 90% of Los Angeles. With all the Aussie troops in Timor now it would be one of the safest places to go.

 

[frogfish]

You can try Alor - We spent a week with Alor Divers and were the only guests at the resort and the only divers on all dive sites we visited...
Great diving and great hosts...

 

[Stransky]

Walindi Plantation scuba resort - Papua New Guinea
MV Febrina
Solomon's>Uepi

my 2 cents,.