CHUUK World's Greatest Wreck Diving
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CHUUK HOTELS Blue Lagoon Resort Runway Inn Tel: 330-2727 Tel: 330-2883 he many islands within this huge atoll E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: Tare crowned with natural beauty. The www.bluelagoondiveresort.com Picnic Islands outer barrier reef is punctuated with idyllic Truk Stop Hotel Pisar Beach Resort sandspits dotted with coconut palms. The Tel:330-4232 TEL:(691)-330-7779 CHUUK E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] high islands in the central lagoon rise into Web: www.trukstop.com World’s Greatest Wreck Diving Falos Resort the blue Micronesian skies. High Tide Hotel tel:(691)330-5376/7315 Federated States Tel: 330-4644 E-mail: [email protected] Chuuk State consists of 290 islands with E-mail: [email protected] 250 islands uninhabited. The islands have of Micronesia Fenomu (Kimiuo Aurora) 5- Hotel E-mail: [email protected] natural beauty and most still display a Tel:330-7048 Web: www.trukoceanservice.com E-mail: [email protected] traditional lifestyle. IssJ LndPla There are many wartime wrecks on land Kurassa Hotel The Blue Lagoon Resort Tel:330-4415 Island Hideaway. and underwater. The huge inner lagoon is E-mail: [email protected] http://www.jeepisland.com/ famously known for the “World’s Greatest DIVE OPERATORS Truk Ocean Service E-mail: Wreck Diving.” Tel: 330-3801 [email protected] E-mail: Web: www.masterliveaboards.com [email protected] / [email protected] Web: www.trukoceansevice.com Truk Lagoon Dive Center Tel: 330-7990 Treasures E-mail: [email protected] CHUUK VISITORS BUREAU Tel: 330-6006 Web: www.dive-truklagoon.com E-mail: [email protected] P.O BOX 1142 [email protected] Odyssey Adventures WENO, CHUUK FSM 96942 Web: www.treasures-chuuk.com Tel: 1-800-757-5396 E-mail: [email protected] TEL: (691) 330-4133/330-4480 Blue Lagoon Dive Shop Web: www.trukodyssey.com Tel: 330-2796 EMAIL: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.truk-lagoon-dive.com Seaward Holidays Micronesia WEBSITE: www.visit-chuuk.com Tel: 330-4253 Trukmaster E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +66 (0) 76 367 444 (Thailand) Web: www.thorfinn.net RESTAURANTS Blue Lagoon Restaurant Rose Garden Restaurant Tel: 330-2727 Tel: 330-7351 Amazing Diving, Beautiful Islands, BS Café Lei-Side Restaurant Friendly People, a Vast Inner Lagoon and a Tel: 330-4191 Tel: 330-6727 Traditional Culture make CHUUK one of Truk Stop Restaurant Oriental Restaurant Micronesia’s most fascinating destinations. Tel: 330-0281 Tel: 330-6565 High Tide Restaurant Café Lauffer Tel: 330-4644 Tel: 330-7048 www.visit-chuuk.com Natural Beauty Chuuk comprises many islands within this huge atoll. Development is minimal on most and they are crowned with natural tropical beauty. Visitors can see the islands and there are many “picnic islands” that are great for day trips and realxing. Some even have facilities to overnight under the stars. The high islands still hold remnants of WWII and history buffs will enjoy hikes and tours to see these sites. Traditional life can be viewed as men pound breadfruit and women weave baskets from coconut palms. Friendly People Chuukese people enjoy meeting and talking Amazing Diving to island visitors. It is customary to offer a guest a drink, which may be in the form of a freshly picked and cut coconut. The Chuukese also The sea floor beneath the Chuuk Lagoon is have a major market in Weno where fruits and steeped in history. Many divers feel it has the other fresh foods may be found and tasted. Say best collection of shipwrecks and WWII era “Ran Anim” (Hello) and enjoy the easy-going airplanes in the world. The hulks have been island lifestyle of the lagoon. transformed into amazing “shipreefs”, holding the very best of the undersea world and maritime history at one site. Incredible corals in a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes fed by warm, clear waters attract divers worldwide. Often overlooked are the outer reefs where a great variety of fish and graceful sharks live on steep, untouched walls and slopes. www.visit-chuuk.com.