6 Days - Remote Wa Ale Island - A Luxurious Adventure Trip

After breakfast at our Yangon hotel, we drive to the airport for our flight to Kawthaung, in the far south of Myanmar. Soon Wa Ale Island Resort will have a Welcome Center just 15 min drive from the airport and a 5 minutes drive from the jetty where we can relax while using the free WiFi and being served soft drinks, beer, wine, coffee, tea and lights snacks before we  board the Wa Ale Island Resort’s luxury yacht. The journey will take between two to three hours to Wa Ale Island. We will pass many beautiful jungle-covered islands of the Mergui Archipelago and you will soon realize that this is paradise! Upon checking in at the Resort, you can rest in your luxurious villa, or immediately start to enjoy Turtle Beach in front of the villas where you will notice the protected turtle nests. Enjoy a drink of your choice at the main pavilion where your hosts will brief you on what is to come for the next few days. You will be amazed! Once all the facilities are completed, you will have a choice to relax at the open-air beach restaurant & bar, the river cafe & bar, the dive & activities center, a spa, an exercise facility, and even a game & recreation center. Remember the Resort is full-board, where every meal is skillfully crafted by the award-winning British chef and his local team, using mostly produce from their local organic gardens and seafood carefully selected from the local fisherman who follow the rules of sustainable fishing.

Your hosts at the Resort will discuss with you all the options available. Most activities are included in the tour fee (except for scuba diving which is an extra charge) and are tailor-made and personalized based on guests’ requirements. Among the activities you can choose from are boat trips to remote islands to meet the Moken people (also referred to as the Sea Gypsies), snorkeling the brilliant untouched coral reefs, swimming and body surfing at the long beaches right in front of the Resort. Kayaking and paddle boarding offer great opportunities to slowly move across the shallows that skirt the enchanted mangrove forests and up the small rivers to get a glimpse into the lives of the many small critters that live in these shallow protected waters. Once trails have been laid out we can go hiking in the dense jungles for bird and wildlife spotting. You may come across the cute spectacled leaf monkeys, gibbons, the Sunda pangolin, pythons, monitor lizards, oriental small-clawed otters, lesser mouse-deers, monitor lizards, civets, chevrotains, gibbons, and many more. Watch out for the scampering crab-eating macaques foraging for crabs on the islands’ rocky shores. Among the most unique birds are the plain-pouched hornbill, Wallace’s hawk-eagle, white-bellied sea eagles, crested partridge, red-throated sunbird, brown-winged kingfisher, Pacific reef herons, emerald doves, and more. However, remember that wildlife does not come and present themselves to the tourists so it may take some effort to see them and with luck, we will get awarded. Bring along your best camera and lenses. If at any time you prefer to just laze around your lovely tented villa, or spend the day aimlessly wandering around the endless beaches where your footsteps may be the only ones on the beach, then just do that. Turtle Beach is right in front of the villas but feel free to take a 20 to 30 minute stroll over to the kilometer-long Honeymoon Beach or ask for a short boat ride if the walk is too much exercise.

While you are in paradise, don’t forget to drop by the bar for a refreshing drink and try never to miss one of the three sumptuous meals served wherever you want it to be served!

Get up at sunrise and go walk for the last time on the long sandy beaches in front of the Resort. Today is your last day in paradise. After another sumptuous breakfast, we check out and make our way to the yacht for the trip back to Kawthaung. Have another frosty drink as we sail past the many forested islands. Have a last laugh with the friendly staff of the Wa Ale Island Resort. As you say your goodbyes at the Kawthaung jetty, you will look back at the Wa Ale Island yacht and with a tear in your eye proclaim this as one of your best trips ever to one of the most unspoiled parts of the world. Money well spent indeed. Pro Niti Travel and the Wa Ale Island Resort truly created travel memories never to be forgotten. I bet you will return to Wa Ale!  We will overnight in Yangon, and maybe for the last time stroll the interesting streets of this amazing city.