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The Similan Guide
The Similan Guide - Diving at the Similan islands, Similan National Park, Khao Lak
Description
Extracted from the Web site: The Similan Guide - Information about scuba diving and skin diving at the Similan islands and all kind of accommodation in Khao Lak.
A brief story of the beginning of the Similan Guide
The Similan Guide is the accumulated diving know how of several years of diving around the Similan islands.
It was always handy to have some good dive site maps ready to explain your costumers the dive sites in the briefing just before the dive. Well, the only thing was, at the time I started diving at the Similans, there was not that many good dive site maps available, especially good ones were very rare and kept quite confidential.
So, I started to draw my own ones. I compared my maps to the ones of my college dive guides and so they become more accurate and also better over time. It took my quit a while until I got my maps of each dive site together.
From time to time some costumers or younger dive guides asked me about my maps. They wanted some copies for their own use or just for their memories at home.
The Similan Guide is my way to provide the divers, skin divers and dive guides with some helpful maps and information about diving at the Similan islands.
Additional Informations
The Similan islands are for sure one of the top ten dive sites in the world. Whether you travel with a live aboard to the Similan islands or on a day trip boat, you will enjoy these islands in the Andaman Sea.
The dive sites are just great and marine life is abundant and most colorful…
In Khao Lak you will find the Dive Center of your choice. There are many different day trip as well as live aboard tour operators available.
Of course there are some nice and good guesthouses in Khao Lak and the surrounding villages available.
The Similan Guide presents: The Similan islands
The Similan Marine National Park was founded in 1982 as the 43rd National Park of Thailand. The park area is about 140 sq km. The islands and rocks itself are just about 16 sq km.
The islands consist of massive boulders and rocks most of them are completely covered with threes and plants.
Just a few kilometers north of Khao Lak there is the lovely Bangsak beach right at the cost of the Andaman Sea. Approximately 60 km in the west from here are the Similan islands – Thailand’s ultimate divers paradise.
Information about Khao Lak
Khao (mountain) Lak is not just the name of a small village but also of a 25 km long area at the cost of the Andaman Sea in the province of Phang Nga. Khao Lak is situated approximately 100 km north of Phuket.
The Similan islands are very close and on days with a good visibility you may even see Ko Similan - island # 8 and Ko Bon.
Have you ever thought about an elephant trek through the jungle and beautiful backyard of Khao Lak. Yes. Well then you should visit the Asia Safari camp. There you can get in touch with the mahouts and their elephants…
--Marcalb 01:13, 2 June 2007 (PDT)
Discussion
Featured Page Nomination
SimilanGuide.com/English was selected to be a featured wiki page, after having been nominated by the article's creator or some other AboutUs community member. Below is the discussion that led to it's being featured.
- Originally nominated last week, it was removed from nomination since we are currently only featuring sites in English. That said, they information was replaced with English information and I'm re-nominating it. Because the page has so much information, we've set up separate German and English pages. This featured nomination should be treated as being for both pages since one is essentially a translation of the other. -- TakKendrick 17:34, 12 June 2007 (PDT)
- There's some really good information here especially considering the multi-lingual nature of the WikiPage, I'd say it's a pretty strong featured candidate. -- TakKendrick
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Featured Text -- While it seems like the majority of the WikiPages in AboutUs are in English, AboutUs is a multilingual website. While it's often hard for us to feature pages in languages other than English, we love to feature ones that are multilingual. Well, a few weeks ago someone nominated the page for SimilanGuide.com, a German website. We left a note suggesting that they add an English translation to the page to make it easier to feature for our readers. Instead, the text was replaced in English. Obviously, that wasn't our intent, so we reinstated the German version AND created an English page so that readers in either language can find out more this great website. SimilanGuide.com provides information and guides to scuba and skin diving the Similan Islands. If the pictures of the clear blue waters shown on the SimilanGuide.com WikiPage are any indication, claims that the Similan Islands are among the top ten dive site in the world can't be false. Water-lovers or people looking for a sunny vacation spot should definitely check out SimilanGuide.com.
Thank you very much for featuring my site! Thank you for your support! SimilanGuide.com, --Marcalb 08:48, 25 June 2007 (PDT)
