Mergui Archipelago

Landscapes this striking are not confined to dreams. Picture white sand beaches, dotted with palm trees and fringed by primary rainforest. Picture the sea stretching out before you, its waves keeping a steady rhythm. Picture a pale sun lighting these remote shores. This waking dream has a name: the Mergui Archipelago.
Located at the southern tip of Myanmar, in the Andaman Sea, the archipelago only opened to foreign tourism in the late 1990s. It comprises more than 800 islets, most of them uninhabited. These pristine islands offer untouched nature at every turn. Here you can meet the mysterious “sea gypsies,” the Moken, who live aboard their boats and move from island to island. You can visit Moken villages, sample local cuisine, buy fresh seafood and watch this community build canoes using techniques dating back tens of thousands of years.
In the archipelago, you will explore unknown terrain on foot across fine sand, encountering exceptional wildlife, with rare monkeys and birds amid a thoroughly lush setting. Add to this gibbons, lizards and eagles watching from a distance, while you relax aboard your sailboat at sunset.