Day 1: 

Trip Commencement: After a warm welcome from your guides as you arrive at the airport, check into your accommodations, enjoy a welcome dinner, and get to know your fellow travelers!

Day 2: 

Orientation & Rock Climbing: After an opening orientation from your guides, we’ll rope up for a Mindful Movement Rock Climbing Course! Whether you’re an absolute beginner or a seasoned climber, we’ve got routes available for all ability-levels. Our bungalows are tucked beneath some of the best limestone climbing walls in the region, so you can keep practicing throughout the trip. In the afternoon, we’ll get our hands dirty volunteering on permaculture, natural building and zero waste projects.

Days 3-5 (5 Dives)

PADI Open Water Certification (or Advanced or Nitrox training if already OW certified): Begin your PADI Open Water Course with a day in the pool learning fundamental skills and how to use your equipment under the direct supervision of a PADI Instructor. Spend the next two days honing your skills and knowledge while diving with your instructor and fellow students off the Aonang Coast. After five dives, you will officially be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver for life! 

Note: you will be required to complete the Open Water Theory portion of your course via the PADI eLearning portal prior to your trip. We will send you those details prior to your trip. 

Day 6

Reef First Aid and Monitoring Course: During this course, you will learn the techniques to correctly identify and fix the most common types of coral damage encountered while SCUBA diving, how to correctly remove discarded fishing equipment from the reefs without damaging the existing organisms, and various methods to conduct reef health surveys. You will then go on two SCUBA dives to put these skills into practice and conduct reef health surveys! All data collected will be sent to our partners to support scientific research.

Day 7

Shark Conservation & Monitoring: After learning about shark evolution, biology and conservation initiatives from shark researchers, we’ll snorkel the vibrant reefs of the Phi Phi islands while observing sharks and other marine life in their natural habitat. As citizen scientists, we will record our observations in a global database that supports shark research and conservation around the world!

Day 8

Hop in a longtail boat and travel back in time to the quiet fishing villages of Koh Klang island. Here we’ll immerse ourselves in traditional southern Thai culture and support local families and businesses practicing community-based ecotourism. We’ll make our way around the island in rickshaw taxis to try our luck at fishing, bee-keeping, clam-digging, batik painting, and other traditional practices that help to preserve this unique way of life.