Palau consists of more than 300 islands scattered around and inside a huge lagoon. It is roughly located in the western part of Micronesia, 600 miles east of the Philippines. The official languages are English and Palaun with Japanese also widely spoken. The official currency is the US dollar.

Palau is a tropical island paradise with dense tropical forests, mangroves, rivers, waterfalls, and long white sandy beaches. This tropical island destination provides an excellent location for any holiday. You can Kayak the mangroves to see crocodiles in the shallows, visit ancient ruins and quiet villages, hike through diiferent forest types, or lounge around in hammocks as the sun goes down.

For the diver, Palau has everything to offer, including 1500 species of fish and 700 varieties of coral, as well as wrecks, caves, walls all offering fabulous diving. Also Palau's Ngemelis wall was nomiated as the best wall dive in the world by Jacques Cousteau.

Koror is the main diving base and is joined to the largest island Babeldaob by a causeway. Most dives are done as drift dives and some dives are reasonably deep. Several world war II wrecks are available for diving on, and are located in the main commercial port. Those dive sites worth a visit include :-

• The exhilarating drift dive of blue corner is located along the Ngemelis wall
• New Drop off at the southern end of Ngemelis island
• The sheer wall at the souther tip of Palaus Lagoon falls hundreds of feet and includes the dive sites, Peleliu Cut, Peleliu express, West Wall, Orange Beach and Yellow Beach.

Palau is also known for its Jelly Fish Lake on Eil Malk Island (30 minute boat ride from Koror) which has hundreds of thousands of jelly fish (no stingers). A truely beautiful site where you can snorkel but not scuba.