Bali Snorkeling

LAST UPDATED JANUARY 2013. Samui overdone? Neighbourless, good value Jungle Club in the hills behind Chaweng Noi, 2km to the beach (this shot expands). “Please suggest a great island for me”, is a pretty common question. Sometimes that’s it, other times the ask is more specific: “…..laid back island”, “….good snorkelling”, “……great nightlife”, “….fantastic beaches”. Quite often it’s a combo: “…..not touristy but not too dead, with great beaches, fantastic snorkelling off the beach, budget bungalows by the sea with inbuilt spa and Jacuzzi, some nightlife but not over the top and with an international airport no more than 30 minutes away”. Yeah right, know a dozen of these. Anyway I though I’d try to put the islands and beaches I know about into some sort of categorical order. Right at the end of this page in WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY? I'll lay the islands' geographical locations out. There is also a section on ISLAND HOPPING before that. LAID BACK - little Ko Chang Andaman side, K