Thursday, November 27, 2008

Saipan – Lost Paradise <9.10.2008>

First – I am sorry I haven’t updated my blog for a long time!
The reason you will see within the next trip reports – I was on the move over the past weekends ;-)

Since my time comes soon to an end here in Japan I want to see the places I only can visit easily from here in Japan.
One of those destinations was always Saipan – part of the Mariana Islands.
To give you an idea here you can find the map:

It is just a 4 hours flight – directly from Tokyo – so really easy to go there. The main attraction definitely is DIVING – I am sure you are now fully surprised ;-)
So please enjoy the next slides about the underwater world there, which includes famous dive spots like: The Grotto (Cave), Ice cream, Lau Lau beach, B52

Famous Grotto:
Impressive Fire Scallop were you can see the current flow!

War & Peace in harmony:

The little ones:




The Free Divers:

If you search for a dive shop in Saipan - I really can recommend you GODIVERS!
It is a great team - really supportive and customizable, very flexible, super friendly ... all in all the first choice!
Here you can find more details: http://godivers.net/
Special thanks at that point to our guides Eva & Sydney!!!

But there is not only the underwater world which is worth visiting this place, beside the beatufil nature - Saipan also has an interesting, but sad history. Mainly about the second World War were you can find many relicts left (Tanks, monition, etc…) or visit places like the Suicide or Banzai Cliff, to remember the thousands of people who committed suicide to escape the US army.



All in all a facet rich island with many things to do & see and real nice people welcoming you with open arms!
And the highlight – one Austrian called Markus … he is as famous as Arnold Schwarzenegger in US ;-)


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