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Tropical waters, a reef, magnificent trees and surrounded by a clash of fish life - so to see the dream of many goals from snorkelers. In the upper Riffregionen, the most intensively flushed from the sun, is the most colorful life: Often snorkelers to get the surface even more to see as a diver, 30 meters below them by the depth to float. Even when it comes to the largest living creatures on our planet is.
One of the best snorkelling spots in the world lies on the doorstep of Barakuda Diving Centers in the Bay Lahami, deep in southern Egypt. In the shallow sea grass and bay marked by the Red Sea live exotics such as the violin-rays, a fossil-looking mixture of shark and rays, from molluscs, crabs and live fish feeding ground.
The stars of the bay, however, are the order of the Manatees belong dugongs, giant tender of about three meters in length and around 400 kilograms of weight, devoted exclusively vegetable diet. In earlier times, they are often confused with mermaids - which despite their cute appearance, but rather by rum-consumption of the viewer should be explainable. "Divers rarely get to face," says the proprietor bases Mahmoud Hady Abd. "The shy animals usually flee before the breath sounds lung machine: Here are snorkeller clear advantage."
More than 60 spots before Curaçao
Snorkelling is no longer as "diving light, with no special attention is: Today, manufacturers of special equipment diving mask, snorkel and fins as Einstiegssets to. Diving centers offer guided snorkeling trips at particularly attractive reefs, and appear regularly in bookstores new titles that deal with the issue. Snorkelling is trendy - and the dive operators have the market for themselves.
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A few thousand miles away, in the southern part of the Caribbean, are Bonaire and Curaçao - two islands that are perfect for snorkeling trips. For both islands around almost consistently attracts an advanced Saumriff. Alone Curaçao has more than 60 spots for snorkelers to offer, from the coast can be reached.
Especially popular is the "Tugboat" in the southeast of the island: a small wreck, which is a few meters away from the shore in only five meters water depth. Seal tightly to grow brain coral and tube sponges into red, green and yellow, between which morays, trumpet fish and perch flags together. An underwater paradise, surrounded by 27 degrees warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.
"Especially in children, or the non-diving part of a pair of parents is great snorkeling in fashion," says Bianca creators of Curaçao Tourist Board. "Such requests take from year to year, snorkelers have become an important tourism factor."
The big three: shark, manta and whale
Sharks and Mantas have for divers and snorkelers on the same footing as lion and rhino for the safari tourists: You must have seen it once! Especially good are the chances that the ultimate island paradise, the Maldives. Specifically, in the Ari Atoll. More specifically: to Angaga, says marketing director Andrea Jasper from Munich dive travel specialists Sub-Aqua: "In the lagoon often cavort baby sharks at the house you will meet up to two meters tall white tip reef sharks. With a little luck, also sees Mantas entlanggleiten majestically on the slope. "
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With sharks in the water - is not that dangerous? "No, no," beckons from Jasper laughingly, "we now hold over 37 years dive travel and had not yet a customer, from a shark attack. From reef sharks sometimes not at all: They have more fear of us as we faced .
Excel can be whole only when it is one of the largest inhabitants of the planet goes into the water: excursions to whales, which are only with mask, snorkel and fins armed cautiously approached. Whether in Mexico, French Polynesia, the Azores or the Dominican Republic: divers stay here mostly out of their breath sounds would be great as well shy mammals often distribute.
Even marine scientists support the "soft Waltourismus": who they once close has seen who understands how sensitive these creatures are impressive.
When the tourists are particularly popular humpback whales, whose fine songs you have heard long before they become a focus of snorkelers come. If a group sighted, the boat goes in the direction provided in the school prefers, and can drive with the engine switched off.
If the whales to maintain the course, carefully slide the snorkelers in the water: As a submarine just peels the whale weighed 30 tonnes from the deep blue, with large pectoral fins, flipper called, slightly tilted downwards. In many encounters you do not know on which page the curiosity is greater - in humans or whales? Anyway: What remains impression that one never forgets.
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For further snorkel trips with guaranteed adrenaline examined the needs that are not in the distance, just as the trip to Switzerland: How a sharp cut V runs in the canton of Ticino, near the village Vogorno, the valley by an enormous mountain range. In the middle: the mountain river Verzasca. Huge stones create rapids, roaring and spray spraying, which alternate with quiet pools - an underwater landscape, such as by a master hand hewn from granite. The crystal clear water shimmers under tabs silvery trout lurk on prey.
"Snorkeling in tropical waters, but this can be any," says the Bonnerin Regine Webling who with her husband Guido every year there. "But here, with the flow and the maximum of ten degrees warmer water, because this is a totally different number." Speaks's and jumps back into the cool water back - always in the stream below.
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