The Republic of Palau is a home to islands that are scattered across the edge on the west of the Pacific Ocean. These set of islands are a literal meaning to paradise, a place where the tropical sun seems sparkling off the sea providing company to the soft gentle breezes that whisper through coconut fronds and jumping fishes and soaring birds. Palau is more to see to be considered one of the world’s natural wonders. The magic o Palau extends both ways, below and above the water edge. There are colored rock islands and mushroom shaped limestone forms all over.

This new born country Palau, that celebrates its independence on October 1 after 1994 and which is populated with 19,300 residents living all over 586 islands, shows off its number one attraction – the high adrenaline diving. These diving sites are also attractions for snorkelers as these include opportunities to encounter large number of sharks, mantas, wrecks and sheer walls dropping into the abyss. Rock islands here provide great backdrops for snorkeling excursions on daily basis. Diverse variety or corals and fishes inhabiting the lagoons, making its tireless and fascinating for snorkelers to slip into he warm waters. 70 marine lakes, on an approximate, sprinkled across the rock islands, and each of them is quite unique, containing isolated and diverse ecosystems. Seawater keeps seeping in and out of these lakes through the porous rocks. A few lakes contain bizarre numbers of jellyfish with weak stinging cells, unable to penetrate human skin. Latest number of jellyfish in the lake which is most visited was found out to be close to 20 million. A trans-inducing sensation is of swimming among these millions of marine spaceships, most importantly, without being stung!

Adding to the beauty of this marine life, the Palau snorkelers are also lucky to witness the ruins of the riches of WWII wrecks and artifacts. Many shallow water artifacts of the World War II times are now inhabited by corals and other invertebrates which are attract and interest the snorkelers. Luck kisses the foreheads of those snorkelers who get the opportunity to visit and encounter those nicks and corners of the waters of Palau, that have gone unseen and untouched for decades. Palau is so marvelously rich to offer the under ocean stuff, that if one snorkels even for a week or a month, he would still have only scratched the surface of it. Palau boasts, and shall continue to do so, of its requisite coral gardens, drop-offs, reef fish and the sand beaches. The trimmed coconut palms standing against the aqua marine waters of the Philippine sea make Palau, and other islands of there, not less than a heaven.