Diving · San Andrés
Requires a medical questionnaire, and a doctor’s clearance if you answer yes to anything on it. DO NOT FLY FOR AT LEAST 18 HOURS after your final dives — build at least a full day into your schedule before your flight home. You must be able to swim 200 m unaided and float for 10 minutes.
Qualify as a diver, for life, on one of the best reefs in the Caribbean. Theory, confined-water skills and four open-water dives across three days, ending with a certification recognised worldwide.
Private instruction, which typically finishes the course faster and with far more water time.
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A coral islet of coconut palms and blinding white sand fifteen minutes offshore, ringed by water in three separate shades of turquoise. It is the postcard, it is busy, and it is still worth it.
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$20–$50
per person
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A natural aquarium in a shallow lagoon where you can literally walk from one cay to the other through waist-deep water, with fish and rays around your legs the whole way.
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$14–$45
per person
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A full day working round the island by boat — the cays, the mangroves, a stingray stop and two snorkel sites — with lunch aboard and a skipper who picks the stops by the day’s conditions rather than a fixed list.
From
$30–$80
per person
