Exploring the beautiful underwater world through diving


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Countless wrecks, like this F-4 Phantom jet in the Philippines’ Subic Bay, can be reached from coasts across South-East Asia. — F. SCHNEIDER/imagebroker/dpa

Shopping in Singapore, looking down from the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, taking in the massive ancient temples in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and Indonesia’s Borobudur: Tropical South-East Asia is hardly short of things to do for tourists or places to go.

Some of the region’s best attractions are not on land or even above the sea-level, however. Diving is another reason South-East Asia is popular with tourists, and East Timor, Raja Ampat in Indonesia, Thailand’s Similan Islands and Sipadan in Sabah, Malaysia are among the world’s best-regarded locations.

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