Koh Ha
This cluster of five (Koh meaning Island and Haa meaning 5 in Thai) small island’s only 30 mins from Phi Phi by speedboat offer excellent diving opportunities and beautiful scenic beaches to relax and pass away the lunch break and surface interval, this all adds up to an excellent day’s dive trip away from Phi Phi.
Though there are dive sites all over the islands, the most popular is Koh Haa Yai, the largest island and the furthest to the west. The dive site offers sloping walls made up of beautiful hard and soft corals covering smooth rocks. Moving into shallower water you will find the dive sites highlights two large caverns whose entrances are 10 meters deep, appearing like cathedral doorways these caverns are huge and safe to enter even without a light as there is plenty of natural light and only one way in and out. The caverns contain huge stalactites set to amaze any admiring diver. |
The marine life on offer is extremely diverse and visibility around the island’s can extend beyond 30 meters on good days, allowing a great chance of seeing bigger fish hunting out in the blue. Around the reef lionfish and scorpion fish are seen with regular occurrence, a visual reminder of good buoyancy and awareness to all levels of divers. Schooling Bannerfish, Moorish idols and Butterfly fish all help to make up an excellent range of colours to compliment the surrounding coral growths.
The sites are more close to Koh Lanta, but are dived with special trips or speedboat trips out of koh Phi Phi
there are three main divesites here
The sites are more close to Koh Lanta, but are dived with special trips or speedboat trips out of koh Phi Phi
there are three main divesites here
Koh Ha Nung (Island #1)
The location of the famous Chimney Cavern system and other systems to explore. You can find banded sea snakes, lionfish, nudibranches, frogfish, harlequin shrimps, many other crustaceans and beautiful cowries.
Koh Ha Yai (Island #5)
A huge cave that can be easily entered using one of two entries. The deepest is at 16 meters and the shallower is found at 5 meters. Once inside the cave opens up to a massive cathedral. Here the diver can surface inside the island and look up to the roof over 30 meters above. Stalactites hang down from the ceiling. Inside the cathedral is not dark and torches are not required. Light filtering through the cave entrances gives of a truly magical light show creating rather strange illusions around the diver.
Koh Ha Lagoon
Koh Haa’s central lagoon area is a must-see for any diver visiting.
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