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Mar 2nd – 16th, 2024 14 nights Palau Spawning

We will arrive on March 2nd 2024 in Koror, Palau. We will be picked-up and transfered to our hotel, Palau Central Hotel. We will be a small group of max. 6 people with a private boat charter for 20 dives in total in Palau. Full day tours include two dives and lunch on one of the pristine islands of the Rock Islands. If you haven’t had enough of diving after returning in the late afternoon, you can do another dive at “Sam’s Macro Wall” right in front of the dive center. Here you can meet mandarin fish during the twilight.

We will dive on walls with incredible coral formations, hang out with sharks in reef corners, encounter rays, and schooling fish, and explore channels, sandy bottom sites, tunnels, holes, caves, and caverns during our dive. And we will explore twisted remains of WWII freighters, plane wrecks, and more.

And we will have a double spawning trip with the Blue Lined Sea Bream and the Bumphead Parrotfish. This is a special spawning trip as it is only possible to do this twice a year once in March and once in April. You will get to dive with two of the biggest aggregations of those species discovered on the planet so far, something quite special.

The important thing is to never forget that this is a natural spectacle. And nature is not predictable.

Snorkelling excursion to Jellyfish Lake:
Jellyfish Lake is a marine lake with millions of golden Jellyfish. This lake is part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, mostly uninhabited islands in Palau’s Southern Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu.

Day trip German Lighthouse:
This tour is for nature lovers of all ages and offers outstanding bird watching opportunities, as well as an interesting hike through the jungle where numerous WWII remains are hidden.

Half day tour Peleliu:
After 2 dives in Peleliu we discover the countless artifacts from the Second World War and experience the history of Palau up close.

After 14 exciting days with diving and some land tours, is our departure day and we will fly back home.

Daily Itinerary

Palau Central Hotel

The Palau Central Hotel offers newly renovated Western style rooms in the center of Palau´s downtown only steps away from restaurants, shopping and activities. Palau International Airport is only 15 minutes away and the dive center Sam´s Tours is only 7 minutes away by car.

The hotel offers also a restaurant, a spa area, outdoor swimming pool and a conference center.

Palau

The first thing we’d like to note, which speaks to the character of this island nation, is that the world’s first shark sanctuary was declared in Palau in 2009.  It was only after that action that other nations begans to follow suit.

The Federated States of Micronesia, includes the diving havens of Palau, Truk & Yap, covering roughly 3 million square miles. East of the Philippines & north of Indonesia, the islands are small, rocky & largely uninhabitable, but richly forested, many with dazzling white sand beaches. Palau itself is composed of about 250 mostly-uninhabited islands, which are ringed by a single barrier reef.

Situated where she is in a triangle with Indonesia and the Philippines, it comes as no surprise that splendid corals are one of Palau’s greatest claims to fame – along with tremendous marine diversity. Most dive sites in Palau are world-class, with underwater features like blue holes, drop-offs, caverns, caves and channels. Visibility often seems endless and can go up to 30m on good days.

Palau can be dived year-round and the water temperature is usually warm at a range of 27-30°C. Most of the dive sites are located about 45-60 minutes away by speed boat from the dive center of Sam´s Tours.

Most of the dive sites are recommended for divers with experience because of the strong currents in Palau. A reef hook is critical to have for several dive sites at the outer walls of the barrier reef.

Shipwreck enthusiast will be spoilt for choice in Palau as there are more than 20 Japanese warships and planes from the Second World War to discover, many of them covered with colorful corals.

Sam´s Tours Palau

The friendly, knowledgeable and professional staff at this PADI 5-Star National Geographic Center lead daily trips for divers of all skill levels to Palau’s world-class dive sites and WWII wrecks.

Sam’s Tours dive center is located in Koror, Palau.

You will have complimentary NITROX up to 32% (with proof of certification) and full day or half-day trips and customized private charters, for individuals, families and groups.

For non-diving days, there’s a selection of breath-taking tours – both on and off the water – that include rock island tours, snorkel tours, Jellyfish Lake tours, Palau’s top rated kayak trips, big island sight-seeing tours, waterfall tours, cultural tours and “around the town” shopping shuttles.

At days end, Bottom Time Bar & Grill – home port of the Royal Belau Yacht Club – offers relaxed casual dining and tropical sunset cocktails right on the water at Sam’s Tours overlooking the beautiful rock islands. It’s the best place in town for fresh sashimi and ice cold Red Rooster Beer, Palau’s only micro-brewed beer!