Here at Dive Safari Asia we always try to keep our fingers on the pulse, this generally involves spending as much time as possible on the look out for the finest dive sites and locations on the planet. Whilst it’s possible to read reviews, scour the internet for articles written by mildly famous diving celebrities or spend all day on You Tube looking for some HD footage of a particular dive site ‘we’ve heard is good’, we prefer the DIY approach – that is Do it Yourself.

Not to blow our own trumpet too much but over the last 12 months we’ve clocked up over 300 dives in Wakatobi, Bunaken, Lembeh, Sumatra, Raja Ampat, Maluku, Bali, Malaysia, Apo, Dumaguete, Malapascua, Moal Boal and more. This is off the back of over 10 years in SE Asia diving throughout the region.

In short you’re in good hands, our first hand knowledge not only ensures you receive accurate information about your destination of choice, we’re also able to tailor your experience to suit.

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With the new year well and truly upon us we thought we’d take just a few moments to review our three favourite dive holidays for 2012. If you’re still stuck for choice we’ve got plenty of alternatives, from far reaching liveaboards to finely crafted resorts and adventurous safaris. For the low down on all this and more pick up the phone and speak to us on 0800 955 0180.

The Best of Indonesia  Join us on the ultimate adventure this November..a chance to dive the very best of Indonesia’s dive sites in one complete tour. The two week trip includes wall diving in North Sulawesi, muck and macro in Lembeh Straits and the chance to dive the richest reefs in the world in Raja Ampat (plus get up close with giant Manta Rays).  16th November – 1st December 2012 / From – £2,850 plus flights

Wild & Remote Looking to get away from it all? Comine some of the world’s finest diving with simplistic luxury at the Misool Eco Resort. Whilst the views from your private cottage will be spectacular the sights you’ll see beneath the surface will no doubt dazzle and amaze. Perhaps the world’s most remote dive resort it makes for the ideal escape, leaving you inspired and invirgorated.A 7 night stay costs £1,920 per person includes full board, local transfers & 10 dives.

Bali & Komodo We love Bali. Not only is there some great diving to be had (Liberty Wreck, Mantas in Nusa Penida and muck diving around the north shore to name a few) there’s also plenty to see and do topside – from wondering through stunning rice padies to cultural markets and deserted beaches. To spice up your trip talk to us about venturing off to Komodo. Our liveaboards leave from the east coast and safari through dramatic islands, home to mythical dragons and pristine diving.Packages start from £110 per person per day including accomodation, diving and full board.

Earlier this Autumn we were lucky to escape the office for a whirlwind trip around the Philippines. The focus was largely the surrounding dive sites of Cebu, one of the larger islands that make up the Visayas group. There’s plenty on offer here and it’s very easy to get around. These photos were taken from Atlantis Dive Resort just outside of Dumaguete, a short boat ride from South Cebu.

We’ve been lucky to dive many of Indonesia’s and the Philippines finest house reefs and this surely is up there with our all time favourites. We spent many afternoons hovering over the sea grass and black sand slopes in search of all manor of weird and wonderful life, typical suspects included flamboyant cuttlefish, frogfish and mimic octopus.

Just 30 minutes boat ride is Apo Island which offers superb reef diving. We were lucky to get a sighting of a 2m blue marlin although no photographs as Sarah was busy focusing on a frog fish – whoops. Still, Jess our guide told us that in 12 years of diving here he’s never seen one – guess it was just our (my) day!

You can dive Apo and the surrounding shores of Dumaguete from Atlantis Dive Resort.  A 7 night stay costs £1,050 per person in a deluxe room including 4 dives per day over 6 days. For photos of the resort and details of travel etc. click here.

For something different in the Raja Ampat I can certainly recommend ‘The Passage’, usually made as a day trip away from the technicolour reefscapes that the region is perhaps better known for. The journey itself is worth making, we passed through a stunning network of jungle entrenched islands of the wider known Waigeo area to get to this channel of water that combines eerie mangrove shores with shallow water corals and fans.

We waited on the banks for the right time to enter, get it right and The Passage actually becomes more of a river which makes for an exhilarating drift for the final part of the dive. As the leaves started to move around us we entered to find a gentle manageable current, sticking close to the banks meant we had plenty of time to take some photos, looking up at gorgonian fans backdropped by hanging forest is quite brilliant.

Towards the end of the dive the general procedure is to stick nice and close to your buddy and move to a more central area of The Passage to make the most of the current. By now it had picked up and we were pushed along quite rapidly whilst finding cover behind the big boulders  – a great dive and altogether something completely different. The photos only give a vague idea of how unique this wonderful habitat is.

You can dive this region of Raja Ampat from the Sorido Bay Resort.