Papua New Guinea

A WWII jungle trail still counted as one of the toughest treks on Earth, reef diving in some of the most biodiverse water on the planet, and an active volcano that once buried its own nearest town in ash.

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Diving · West New Britain

Diving, Kimbe Bay

ADVANCEDRisk: MODERATEUSD 2-tank dive US$100–150

A single bay holding roughly half of all known coral species on Earth — a genuinely staggering concentration of reef biodiversity packed into a compact, liveaboard- or resort-accessible area rather than spread across a whole archipelago.

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Diving · Milne Bay Province

Muck diving, Milne Bay

ADVANCEDRisk: MODERATEUSD Liveaboard 7-night US$3…

Widely regarded by specialists as one of the best "muck diving" destinations on Earth — rather than reef walls, divers hunt volcanic-sand seafloor for an extraordinary density of rare and bizarre small marine life, in water that sees a fraction of the dive traffic of Southeast Asia's better-known sites.

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