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The island Layang Layang in the
South Chinese Sea is not only a military base but also a tourist island.
The resort offers a beautiful pool, a restaurant where you can eat outside and
inside, a bar and the accommodation. The rooms are all equipped with television,
refrigerator and air condition - what is really luxurious. Less luxurious is
that the rooms are poorly soundproofed what means that you know exactly what
your neighbours are talking about.
You will never be hungry on Layang Layang as there is always offered something
to eat between the dives. All meals are served as buffet - unfortunately not
very varied food but you will get used to that soon.
Spectacular is a walk on the landing strip - an acoustic warning signal sounds
as soon as an airplane wants to start or land.
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The dive center offers
a lot of space and the malaysian guides are very friendly and helpful. The dive
sites can be reached within 5 - 20 minutes by boat. The boats start three times
a day. All dives are drift dives with visibilities from 30 meters plus.
Layang Layang is an excellent dive area. Very much impressive is the intact
and healthy underwater world. Besides the beautiful soft and hard corals you
can see a lot of big life as grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, hammerheads,
pygmy devil rays, eagle rays, shoals of bumphead parrotfish, shoals of barracudas,
napoleon wrasse and turtles. But not to forget the smaller creatures as leaffish,
ghost pipefish or cleaner shrimps.
Unique are the dolphin encounters during the safety stops - with a little luck
of course.
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