Itinerary

• 08.00 – Transfer from your hotel to the pier
• 08.45 – Check-in and breakfast
• 09:00 – Departure by the speedboat
• 10.30 – Arriving at Ao Muang (Mango Bay, KohTao) for snorkeling and sightseeing on the beautiful beach
• 11.45 – Having lunch at the restaurant on Koh Tao
• 12.30 – Departure from restaurant to Koh Nang Yuan where you can snorkel or climb up to the top of the mountain to see viewpoint (Koh Nang Yuan is a private island: fins (flippers) are not allowed)
• 14.45 – Departure to Koh Samui
• 16.30 – Arrival at Koh Samui, transfer to the hotel

Tour description

This comfort tour by speedboat is designed for people who don’t want to visit Koh Nangyuan crowded with tourists, and wants to enjoy the beautiful snorkeling in the best places for snorkeling around Koh Tao. This is a combined tour for diving and snorkeling. On board a twin-engine boat there will be no more than 12 people, and in the case of a three-engine – 18 person maximum only. This tour is especially suitable for families or groups of friends, where someone wants to dive with scuba-diving (both certified and not-certified divers), and someone just swim with a mask and snorkel. The tour provides a snorkeling guide that can show you around and keep you safe in the water if you feel uncomfortable to go by yourself. Of course, there are always have life jackets on the boats too, just let us know if you think you need one!

“Of course we always choose the best sites for that day, depending on the weather conditions and our customers. Generally, you can see almost everything the divers would see too – tons of colorful reef fish, stunning coral, stingrays, moray eels, and turtles”

Tour description

With this tour, you do not visit Koh Nang Yuan as one of our snorkeling locations, as the island does get very busy as all the larger ferries and tour boats also use this as one of their snorkeling locations and in addition, you are not allowed to take your snorkeling fins onto the islands. The snorkeling at Koh Nang Yuan is very limited and generally, all you see is a mass of orange life jackets floating near the beach.

For the snorkeling, we find alternative snorkeling locations such as Mango Bay, Japanese Gardens, Hin Wong Bay or Aow Leuk Bay – actual snorkeling locations on any given day will be dependent on the time of year and prevailing wind direction.

Please note that the focus of our Koh Tao tour is on the in water activities and the snorkeling – a lot of the snorkeling is done from the boat. This is not beach hopping / relaxing on beaches tour.

Itinerary

• 07.40 – 08.30 Transfer from the hotel to the pier
• 08.45-09.00 Check-in and light breakfast
• 09.00 Departure to Koh Nang Yuan
• 10.30 – 12.30 Swimming, relaxation and visiting of viewpoint on Koh Nang Yuan
• 12.30 Lunch at the restaurant on Koh Nang Yuan
• 13.30 Departure to Koh Tao
• 13.30 – 15.00 Snorkeling and swimming at a bay of Koh Tao (the choice of the bay depends on weather conditions)
• 15.00 Departure to Koh Phangan
• 16.30 Transfer to the hotel

Tour description

Koh Tao – 2 dives at a quiet and easy dive and snorkeling sites, sheltered from wind and waves.

The tour runs on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday

During an hour and a half journey on a comfortable catamaran Mintra, divers will meet their scuba diving instructor for briefing and snorkellers will relax and enjoy wonderful sea views.

Long dives and relaxed snorkeling in quiet bays sheltered from strong currents are typical for this tour. Popular dive and snorkeling sites are Japanese Gardens, Mango Bay, Hin Wong Bay, Lighthouse Bay or Ao Leuk. From the surface, it’s usually easy to see the bottom so descents become an easy thing. The diving on this tour takes place at depths of 12 to 18 meters. If you’re at the beginning of you diving career or if you haven’t been diving for a long while, then this is the best tour to start with. Another advantage of this tour is that along with diving also snorkeling, discover scuba diving and diving courses take place. Koh Tao itself is the ‘pearl’ of the Gulf of Thailand in terms of reef life. Stingrays, seahorses, sea snakes, moray eels, barracudas, nudibranchs, groupers, turtles and a seemingly infinite number of interesting reef fishes are inhabiting these reefs.

Therefore, this tour is perfect for snorkelers, diving students, beginners, discover scuba divers, as well as for experienced divers. A wide range of different dive sites with beautiful, colorful reefs and a large number of lovely fishes and reef creatures make Koh Tao the top diving area in the Gulf of Thailand.