Airai View Hotel And Spa Koror

... spread north to south over 100 miles form the atoll of Kayangel to the island of Angaur plus five tiny islands, known as the southwest islands. Palau's profuse, unspoiled reefs offer a wealth of marine life, coral formations and wrecks. Dives begin in knee deep water and plunge straight down to depths of 1000 feet and more. Blue holes, huge caverns and an immense variety of rare and exotic marine species are easily accessible in clear water with visibility exceeding 200 feet. Vast ...

... be nice. We are paying an extra night here And an extra night in Guam but we spend the night on a plane. Hmmm.   The flight is as ****** as feared. We are at the airport way too early. American style check in: no fluids. We wait in a full hall for 2,5 hours in  the middle of the night. You cannot even buy a bottle of water. Every 10 minutes a loud voices announces our flight: 'Once again, ladies and gentlemen...'. Being tired and thirsty, it makes me ...

... back home. Hubby is still asleep, so I need to take action. We skip diving today and go for a ... helicopter ride! Poor Tomcat has to dismantle all equipment on board. Bob was so nice to offer us his camera, if we wanted to go on the helicopter ride. Unfortunately, there is often a difference between what people say and what they do. Not with Bob. He gives us his expensive Nikon and goes diving. We go back home, I call the helicopter company and ...

... to our diner for dinner: http://www.gecpalau.com/ Diving today. This is our dive shop: http://fishnfins.com/About%20us.html Dive site is Peleliu Express, the nr 45 on our list. Our dive master says: IF divers do not come back from a dive in Palau, it is from here. The Pacific Ocean meet de Philippine Sea: the currents are unpredictable and change all the ...

... we lost our camera. This time for good. It is at the bottom of the sea. What started off as a nice day, turns bad. Sun is shining in the morning, not anymore when we reach our dive site: it is raining cats and dogs. Sea is rough. I roll in and am meeeeters from the boat in seconds. Alain shouts: grab the line. Which line? I cannot see anything. Rain is piercing my face and my eyes. I float further and further away from the boat. 'The line' Alain ...

Oops, the local Beata screwed up again: pick up is not at 7h30 but at 8h. 5 minutes drive later, we arrive at our dive shop: Fish 'n Fins: it is the best oiled dive shop I have ever seen. They sell about everything a diver might want, all with the name of their shop printed on. Elise gives us our gear and the Tomcat carries it to the boat. Two guys from Guam join us. Our dive master is Alain, of Philippine origin. We are going to the Blue Corner: the number 2 in the world ...

Now I am in Palau which is a small country made up of many islands just west of Micronesia. Many of the islands look like the one in the first picture. This area is called the milky way because of the color of the water. These islands are made of limestone and look sort of mushroom shaped--bigger on the top and skinnier where ...

... stays suspended in the water. It is also the kind of sand that is used at spas to treat your skin so I had my own free spa treatment here! One jump in the water and I was instantly cleaned off! I spent a day driving around the main island here called Babeldaob seeing the sights. I did a hike to a waterfall and on the way saw these abandoned wartime Japanese railroad tracks. The waterfall is called Ngardmau ...

Great Dive group-(left to right) My friend Greg Wade, Duvall WA, Craig Kuse from HI, Phil, and John Rodriguez, (Greg's BIL from Dallas TX)- this pic is taken in Chandler Caves close to the Island were we stayed, popular dive location for Palau. This is a group of caves with around 4 air chambers; the name comes from the hanging rock formations that look like Chandlers. Our dive guide Stephen from Switzerland (in shorty wetsuit) I'm here in ...

... rock islands. We found our bus to get to the hotel. We had to take a ferry but it was very slow. We finally arrived though in the lobby we had some pineapple juice. We had a lovely view from our room. Ardie and I went swimming. We lounged around, ate dinner, then went to bed.