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Diving: Destinations & Places

Scuba diving travel guides covering top dive sites, certification destinations, liveaboard reviews, and seasonal visibility data from the Red Sea to the Coral Triangle.

  • Bermuda Aerial View

    Bermuda

    Bermuda is not Caribbean — it’s a British territory with pink sand beaches, 300+ shipwreck dive sites, and judges still wearing powdered wigs.

  • Beautiful white beach in Saint Lucia, Caribbean Islands

    Saint Lucia

    The Pitons look best from the water at dusk — but the real Saint Lucia is a bowl of pepperpot stew in a fishing village.

  • Boracay Beach

    Palawan

    El Nido’s limestone cliffs and lagoons are worth the rough road to get there. Puerto Princesa’s underground river is the bonus.

  • Ruins of Tulum, Mexico and a palm tree overlooking the Caribbean Sea in the Riviera Maya

    Tulum

    The clifftop ruins at Tulum are real — but the cenotes just inland are what keep people rearranging their return flights.

  • Treehouse with the view of Diamond Beach in Nusa Penida Island

    Bali

    Skip Kuta. The Bali worth your time is Ubud at dawn, Tegallalang before the tour buses, and a temple ceremony nobody planned for.

  • Skyline and Little Cayman in Cayman Islands

    Cayman Islands

    Stingray City is the tourist trap that actually delivers. The wall dives off Little Cayman, though — that’s what serious divers fly here for.

  • Bora Bora Sunset Scenery

    Bora Bora

    Mount Otemanu doesn’t just backdrop the lagoon — it reframes every overwater bungalow photo you’ve ever seen as an understatement.

  • Trees and Ocean View

    Fiji

    Most visitors never leave the Mamanucas. That’s their loss — Taveuni’s rainforest and Kadavu’s reef are a completely different Fiji.

  • Prambanan Temple Carvings in Java, Indonesia

    Indonesia

    Bali gets the headlines, but Raja Ampat’s reefs and Komodo’s dragons are why Indonesia keeps pulling people back.

  • Avani Sepang Goldcoast Resort Malaysia

    Malaysia

    Kuala Lumpur is easy. Malaysian Borneo — orangutans, Mulu’s caves, longhouse stays — is where the trip gets interesting.

  • oceania destination image

    Oceania

    New Zealand’s Milford Sound and Fiji’s lagoons are 10,000 miles apart — but Oceania rewards the long-haul flight more than almost any region on earth.

  • Ruins of Tulum, Mexico and a palm tree overlooking the Caribbean Sea in the Riviera Maya

    Riviera Maya

    Skip the resort pool. Riviera Maya’s cenotes are cold, clear, and worth every muddy jungle road it takes to reach them.

  • Great Blue Hole Belize Aerial View

    Belize

    The Great Blue Hole is real and worth it — but Belize’s jungle temples and Garifuna coast are what kept me coming back.

  • View of the Tahiti lagoon from Pointe Tatatua in French Polynesia

    Tahiti

    Teahupo’o draws the surfers, but Papenoo Valley’s ancient marae sites are what most visitors fly past without stopping.

  • Aerial View of Zakynthos Ionian Islands

    Zakynthos

    Navagio Beach looks better in person than in any photo — but most tourists never make it past the cliff viewpoint.

  • Best Islands in French Polynesia

    French Polynesia

    Bora Bora gets the postcards, but Moorea’s jagged peaks and vanilla-scented valleys are what actually stay with you.

  • Bora Bora vs Maldives

    Maldives

    Local islands cost a fraction of resort prices and still put you 10 feet from the same reef. The overwater villa can wait.

  • philippines destination image

    Philippines

    El Nido’s lagoons are worth the chaos of getting there. Palawan alone could fill two weeks — and still leave things undone.

  • Waikoloa, Hawaii Island

    Waikoloa Village

    Waikoloa sits drier and sunnier than the rest of the Big Island — which means beaches when Hilo is rained out and lava fields ten minutes from your hotel.

  • Ancient Egyptian Sphinx sculpture in the Louvre Museum, Paris

    Egypt

    The pyramids are older than you think — and closer to Cairo’s suburbs than anyone warns you.

  • Islands in Ang Thong National Marine Park, Tha in Koh Samui, Thailand

    Thailand

    Bangkok’s street food alone justifies the flight. Add Chiang Mai, Pai, and the Andaman coast and you have a country that rewards slow travel.