After getting picked up from the airport, check into your new accommodations, enjoy your first of many delicious Thai meals, and get to know your guides and fellow travelers!

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 learn how to make a traditional Thai dessert and enjoy some delicious southern Thai cuisine!

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!

If you are already Open Water certified, you can complete your Advanced Open Water certification or another PADI Specialty while the rest of the group completes their Open Water course!

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

During this course, you will practice your buoyancy underwater to make sure you aren’t damaging coral and other marine life, 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 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.

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!

Start the day kayaking through mangrove forests and learning about how critical these ecosystems are to coastal communities and marine life. Along the way, we will collect mangrove seeds and seedlings to transplant at a local mangrove nursery and restoration project that afternoon!

After project work, we will hop in traditional longtail boats and travel back in time to the quiet fishing villages of Koh Klang island. We’ll check in to a homestay for the night and help our lovely hosts prepare a southern Thai feast!