I'm planning to go to ko tao ($200 for an open water PADI course & accomidation) and just snorkel/dive for several weeks. It's a really good place to be. Snork

I'm planning to go to ko tao ($200 for an open water PADI course & accomidation) and just snorkel/dive for several weeks. It's a really good place to be. Snorkeling is one of the best kinds of exercise there is. It's not too hard, but you can do it for hours and it's really fun and you feel it when your done. Another option is the perhentain islands, tioman island or siporna archelegpo in malaysia. Malaysia has better infrastructure compared to most of south east asia. You can get unlimited 3G internet for certain ($6.50 a week USD prepaid) with celcom on those islands. (not sure with siporna).