LUSH travel | April 2018
Beauties of Mergui Archipelago
words by snow
ပင္လယ္ကမ္းေျခကို ဘာေၾကာင့္လူၾကိဳက္မ်ားၾကတာလဲ စဥ္းစားေနမိရင္း စာဖတ္သူတို႕အတြက္ ဒီလ Myeik Arcgupelago လို႕ကမာၻကသိျပီးအမည္ၾကီးတဲ့ျမန္မာ့အလွဆံုးကၽြန္းစုကမ္းေျခမ်ားအေၾကာင္းကိုျပိုင္စံရွားေရေအာက္အလွတရားေတြ တည္ရွိတဲ့ေနရာအျဖစ္ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ပူအိုက္တဲ့ရာသီမွာအေကာင္းဆံုးအပန္းေျဖျခင္းကေတာ့ခရီးသြားျခင္းပါပဲ။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးနဲ႕ ခရီးသြားတတ္ၾကတဲ့လူေတြအတြက္အပန္းလည္းေျဖရင္းဗဟုသုတလည္း ေလ့လာရွာေဖြစူးစမ္းရင္း ဘဝမွာ အနည္းဆံုးတစ္ခါေလာက္ျမင္ေတြ႕သင့္တဲ့ေနရာေတြ ကိုေရြးခ်ယ္သြားမယ္ဆိုျမိတ္ကၽြန္းစုကိုသြားတာအ ေကာင္းဆံုးပါပဲ။ ျမိတ္ကၽြန္းစုကိုအလည္အပတ္သြားဖို႔ခရီးစဥ္ေတြကေတာ့ ၁ညအိပ္ ၂ရက္မွ ၆ညအိပ္၇ရက္အထိရွိျပီး Travel & Tour ကုမၸဏီေတြကေနၾကိဳက္ႏွစ္သက္ရာေစ်းႏႈန္းနဲ႔ခရီးစဥ္ေတြ ကိုေရြးခ်ယ္လို႔ရပါတယ္။
ပူအိုက္စိုစြတ္တဲ့ရာသီဥတုရွိျပီးဧရိယာစုစုေပါင္း (၃၂,၀၀၀ km²) က်ယ္ဝန္းျပီးကၽြန္းေပါင္း၈၀၀ေက်ာ္ တည္ရွိတဲ့ျမိတ္ကၽြန္းစုကေတာ့ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံေတာင္ဖက္စြန္းမွာတည္ရွိပါတယ္။ Andaman Sea နဲ႕ထိစပ္ေနျပီးထိုင္းနိုင္ငံနဲ႔လည္းထိစပ္ေနလို႔ ကြဲျပားမႈတစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ေတြ႕ျမင္ရပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အျမဲစိမ္းသစ္ေတာေတြ၊ ဆီအုန္းစိုက္ခင္းေတြ၊ ရာဘာစိုက္ခင္းေတြကိုလမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ေတြ႔ရ မွာျဖစ္္ျပီးမိုဂမ္ေခၚဆလံုလူမ်ဳိးနဲ႔တစ္ျခားတိုင္းရင္းသားေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ထုိင္းျမန္မာ၊ မေလးအခ်ဳိ႕နဲ႕ ကရင္၊ ရွမ္းလူမ်ဳိးအခ်ဳိ႕ တုိ႕ရဲ႕ကြဲျပားတဲ့ဘဝေနထိုင္ မႈပံုစံေတြျမင္ေတြ႕ရမယ္။ ျမိတ္ကၽြန္းးစုခရီးစဥ္မွာေတာ့ အမ်ားဆံုး သင္လုပ္လို႔ရနိုင္တာေတြက Snorkeling, swimming, diving တို႔႔ပဲျဖစ္ျပီးအလွပအထင္ရွားဆံုးကၽြန္းနဲ႕ ဘာေတြေတြ႔ရလဲဆိုတာဆက္လက္ေလ့လာနိုင္ပါတယ္။
ပထမဦးဆံုးျမန္မာနိုင္ငံရဲ႕တစ္ခုတည္းေသာ Marine National Park ေခၚ ASEAN Heritage Park ျဖစ္တဲ့လန္ပိကၽြန္း အေၾကာင္းေဖာ္ျပပါရေစ။ လန္ပိကၽြန္းမွာေတာ့လွပတဲ့သႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းေတြျမင္နိုင္ ျပီးအျမဲစိမ္းေတာ၊ ဒီေရေတာ၊ လမုေတာနဲ႕ပင္လယ္ေရေမွာ္ပင္ေတြရႈေမာဖြယ္ျမင္ေတြ႕ရမွာပါ။ ငွက္မ်ဳိးစိတ္ေတြနဲ႕သမင္စတဲ့ေတာရို္င္းတိရစာၦန္ေတြရွိျပီး ကမာၻဦးအစကိုျပန္ေရာက္သြားသလိုခံစားမိေစမယ့္ ဆလံုတိုင္းရင္းသားတို႕ရဲ႕လူေနမႈဘဝပံုစံကိုလဲ ျမင္နိုင္ပါတယ္။ လႈိဏ္ဂူကၽြန္းကေတာ့ဂူေတြရွိျပီးကၽြန္းအဆုံးသတ္မွာေလွငယ္ေလးေတြနဲ႕တစ္ကိုယ္စာသြားလာနိုင္တဲ့ ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္ ထိခါနီးဂူနံရံေတြရွိပါတယ္။အေနာက္ဖက္ကမ္းေျခမွာေတာ့ေရတံခြန္ေတြ႔နိုင္ျပီးကၽြန္းထိပ္ အထိေရာက္ေအာင္တက္ သြားျပီး တျခားကၽြန္းေတြရဲ႕အလွအပေတြကိုအေပၚစီးျကည့္ျမင္ခံစားနိုင္ပါတယ္။ ေရေျမႊေတြေတာ့သတိထားေပးရပါမယ္။
ဒီကၽြန္းကေတာ့ ဆလံုတိုင္းရင္းသားေတြအတြက္ေရခ်ဳိအေထာက္အပံ့ရတဲ့ကၽြန္းျဖစ္ျပီး ငါးဖမ္းသမားအခ်ဳိ႕လည္းဝမ္းစာ အတြက္ငါးဖမ္းၾကပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္းပတ္လည္ေရအနက္ကေပ၁၀၀ေက်ာ္ရွိျပီးလႈိင္းလံုးၾကီးေတြလည္းရို္က္ခတ္အားေကာင္းမႈေျကာင့္ ဒီကၽြန္းကိုလည္ပတ္ရင္ေတာ့အျမဲသတိရွိဖို႕လိုပါတယ္။
ျမင္းခြာကၽြန္းမွွာေတာ့ဆလံုကၽြန္းစုထဲပါျပီးျမင္းခြာပံုစံသဘာဝအတိုင္းတည္ရွိေနလို႔လူေတြေတာ္ေတာ္လည္ပတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ေန႕ျခင္းျပန္သြားလို႕ရျပီးထံုးေက်ာက္ေဆာင္ၾကီးမ်ား၊ဂူမ်ား၊ သႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းမ်ား၊ငါးအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး၊ငွက္အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး၊သစ္ေတာေတြ ကမ္းေျခေတြနဲ႔လင္းပိုင္ေတြျမင္ေတြ႔နိုင္ပါတယ္။ သူုရဲေကာင္းကၽြန္းစုကေတာ့ျမန္မာ့သမိုင္းနဲ႕ဆက္စပ္ေနတဲ့ကၽြန္းစုၾကီးျဖစ္သလိုငေထြးရူး၊ေညာင္ဦးျဖီး၊ငလံုးလဖယ္၊ငခင္ညိဳကၽြန္းေတြစုျပီးတည္ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီဧရိယာကေတာ့အလွဆံုးမို႕ ခရီးသြားမ်ားၾကားအလည္ သြားသင့္ဆံုးေနရာလို႕သတ္မွတ္ၾကပါတယ္။၅၀မီတာအနက္ရွိျပီးေရၾကည္လို႕scuba diving အတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုးေနရာတစ္ခုပါ။
ငါးမန္းေတြၾကည့္ခ်င္ရင္ေတာ့ ငမန္းဂူကၽြန္းကိုသြားနိုင္ျပီးမီးခိုးေရာင္ကိုယ္ထည္နဲ႕ဆူးေတာင္ရွည္ ငါးမန္းေတြကိုလွပတဲ့ သက္တမ္းရင့္ သႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းေတြအၾကားျမင္နိုင္ပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္းဖီလာက လည္းအမည္တြင္ေနတဲ့ကၽြန္းျဖစ္ျပီး သန္႕ရွင္းတဲ့သဲေသာင္ျပင္ေဖြးေဖြးေပၚမွာေအးေဆးလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ရင္းပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကၽြန္းအလွေတြခံစားကာ snorkeling နဲ႕ scuba divingအတြက္အေကာင္းဆံုး ေနရာအျဖစ္တည္ရွိေနပါတယ္။ကၽြန္းဖီလာမွာေတာ့ေရေနသတၱဝါ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးကိုေတြ႔နို္င္ျပီးလင္းပိုင္၊ငါးမန္းနဲ႔ လိပ္တို႕ကိုပါေတြ႔ေစရမွာပါ။
ဆလံုကၽြန္းကေတာ့Yachtsေတြနဲ႔ tourist ေတြအလာမ်ားတဲ့ကၽြန္းျဖစ္ျပီးဆလံုလူမ်ဳိးေတြျဖတ္သန္းရ ေသာဘဝေတြကိုျမင္နိုင္မွာပါ။ ေႏြနဲ႕ေဆာင္းမွာေရေပၚကေလွအိမ္ထဲမွာေနထိုင္ရင္းမိုးရာသီမွာကုန္း ေပၚမွာေနထိုင္တတ္တဲ့သူတို႕ အေနနဲ႔ ဒီေန႕ေခတ္ရဲ႕စီးပြားေရးလူမႈေရးေတြမွာပါဝင္လႈပ္ရွားျခင္းမရွိပဲ တသီးတသန္႔ပုလဲရွာပင္လယ္ေရထြက္ပစၥည္းရွာေဖြရင္း ငါးဖမ္းရင္းနဲ႕သာသူတို႔ဘဝကိုျဖတ္သန္းၾကပါတယ္။ ဘာသာေရးပြဲေတာ္ကိုေတာ့ေဖေဖာ္ရီလမွာဘဲေသြး၊ ပင္လယ္လိပ္၊ ေတာဝက္၊ အရက္မ်ားနဲ႔ရိုးရာတူရိယာမ်ားနဲ႕တီးမႈတ္ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖကာသီးသန္႔ဆင္ႏႊဲၾကပံုမ်ားကိုေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလမွေတြ႔နိုင္ပါတယ္။ Salone Marina and Resort Company Limited “SMR”ကေနထိုကၽြန္းအတြက္ခရီးစဥ္ေတြေလ့လာနိုင္ပါတယ္။
ေကာ့ကြန္းကၽြမ္းကေတာ့အသည္းပံုကၽြန္းလို႕လူသိမ်ားျပီးေကာ့ေသာင္းကေနေလးနာရီၾကာေလွနဲ႕သြားရတဲ့ကၽြန္းပါ။ Snorkeling Tour အတြက္သင့္ေတာ္ျပီးအသဲပံုကမ္းေျခပံုစံကိုေဘးမွေတာင္ေတြပတ္လည္ဝိုင္းထားတဲ့ရႈခင္းကိုလည္းျမင္ရမွာပါ။ အေရာင္အေသြးစံုတဲ့သႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းေတြနဲ႔ပင္လယ္ငါးမ်ဳိးစံုကိုျမင္ေတြ႔နိုင္မွာပါ။ လမ္ပိကၽြန္းေတာင္ဖက္မွာရွိတဲ့ဘိုခ်ဳိကၽြန္းကလည္းအလွဆံုးကၽြန္းစုေတြထဲကအလွဆံုးကၽြန္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆလံုလူမ်ဳိးေတြရဲ႕ေနထိုင္မႈဘဝပံုရိပ္ေတြကိုအဓိကျမင္ေတြ႕ရမွပါ။ ဒီလိုကၽြန္းစုေတြရွိတဲ့ပင္လယ္ခရီးေတြမွာscuba diving နဲ႔ Snorkeling လုပ္တဲ့အခါမွာတစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ေနရာကသႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းေတြပ်က္စီးေနတာကိုေတြ႔ရမွာပါ။ ငါးဖမ္းမႈလြန္ကဲျခင္းနဲ႔ေရေအာက္ေျမျပင္ အနည္ထိုင္ျခင္းေတြ၊တစ္ျခားညစ္ညမ္းမႈေတြေၾကာင့္အႏွစ္ႏွစ္အလလကစျဖစ္တည္လာတဲ့သႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းေတြပ်က္စီးျပီးငါးမ်ဳိးစိတ္ေပါင္းအေရအတြက္ေတြလည္းေလ်ာ့နဲလာပါျပီ။ Snorkeling, diving လုပ္ရင္းျမင္ေတြ႔ရမယ့္ ပင္လယ္ေရသတၱဝါမ်ဳိးစံုနဲ႔ သႏၱာေက်ာက္တန္းေတြအတြက္အပန္းေျဖခရီးသြားေတြအေနနဲ႔သဘာဝပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကိုၾကည့္ရႈခံစားရင္းမိမိေၾကာင့္ပ်က္စီးျခင္းမျဖစ္ေအာင္သတိမူျပီးလည္ပတ္သင့္ပါတယ္။ ခရီးလည္းသြားရင္းပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကိုလည္းေလ့လာထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းကလည္းအေရးၾကီးတဲ့အခ်က္တစ္ခ်က္ပါပဲ။ ခရီးသြားရင္း Plastic အမႈိက္စြန္႔ပစ္ျခင္းမ်ားကိုေရွာင္က်ဥ္ျပီးျပီးျပည့္စံုတဲ့အားလပ္ရက္ကိုသဘာဝပင္လယ္ေရေအာက္အလွေတြၾကားျဖတ္သန္းၾကရေအာင္။
(English version)
While I was contemplating why people like the beaches, I decided to present a world famous cluster of Myanmar island beaches know as Myeik Archipelago which is full of unique underwater beauties. The best thing to do in summer time is traveling. For the people who travel for relaxation and various intentions, Myeik Archipelago should be visited at least once in a lifetime.
Myeik islands, with tropical weather and total area of 36,000km square, included over 800 islands, are situated in the southern part of Myanmar. You will see some of the difference because it was abutted between Andaman Sea and Thailand. Together with the lifestyles of Myanmar tribes such as Thai-Myanmar, Malays, and Kayin, Shan also included Moegun tribes (also known as Salon), you will see ever green forest, oil-palm and rubber plantations along the way. And you can mostly do snorkeling, swimming and diving during Myeik trip. Do continue reading on what are the most beautiful and popular islands continuously.
Let me describe Myanmar’s first and only Marine National Park which is also known as ASEAN Heritage Park; Lampi Island. It conserves a variety of habitats such as evergreen forest, mangrove, beach and dune forest, coral reefs, sea grass bed and a rich diversity of marine fauna. You can feel as if you are back to the beginning of the world, while you can also see the living style of Salone tribes and varieties of bird and other wild animals.
Hlaing Gu Island (Cavern Island) is aptly named as several large caverns or caves on the waterline lay on the southern end of the island. Indeed one of which is only large enough for a small vessel to get through. Waterfalls can be found the western part of the beach. There is a way to climb to the top of island where you can view so many islands and lovely scenes from the top. The wild animals such water snakes can be seen on it. There is also fresh water stream ashore. This stream is used by the local fisherman and Mokens (Sea Gypsies) to replenish their fresh water supplies.
Horse Shoe Island (Myin Khwar as it is locally known) is included in the Salone Islands Group and the visitors can go for the day trip. The visitors could enjoy the lime stone rock, cave, corals, fishes, lagoon, beaches, forest, and birds around the Horse Shoe Island.Thuye Kaung Kyunsu is made up of a group of islets with the names of Myanmar ancient heroes. This area consist of Nga Htway Rue, Nyaung Oo Phee, Nge Lon lett Phei, Nga Khin Nyo Island and other small islets. This big area is well known as one of the best places for scuba diving, due to its depth of 20 to 50 Meters and crystal clear water.
Another of the top Mergui Archipelago diving sites, Shark Cave is known for its resident docile nurse sharks. Often found guarding the entrance are several grey reef sharks, long- fin and a beautiful hard coral reef.The Kyun Philar is known as Great Swintons Island of Myanmar (Burma); the beaches on the Philar are un-inhabited, with very white clean sands. It is very close to many famous scuba diving and snorkeling sites. And you will also see various kinds of Marine lives such as dolphins, sharks and turtles.
The Salone Island is the Tourist spot which you can travel with motorized yachts directly. Living on the water only on summer time and winter, they live on islands during raining season and they don’t participated in any other business and social interaction with the outside world. They depend on finding pearls and other aquatic treasures for survival. Religious festival is held during February with the devotional offerings at the ceremony such as popcorns, wild boar, alcoholic drinks, honey, betel and flesh and blood of ducks, chickens and turtles. Music is also played with the traditional music instruments during the ceremony. You can get trip information from Salone Marina and Resort Company Limited “SMR”.
Kaw Kun Island, known as Heart shape Island, is also popular and takes 4 hours from Kaw thaung to visit there. Appropriate for Snorkeling Tours, the heart shaped beach was surrounded by rocks and full of colourful coral reefs and different fishes. Bo Cho island, which is situated in the southern path of Lampi Island, is also one of the most beautiful one. Mainly you will see lifestyles of Salone tribes there.
You may see damaged coral reefs when you do scuba diving and snorkeling in such kind of island trips. Because of overfishing, sedimentation and other pollutions, fish species are also lesser than ever, and so are coral reefs. Therefore, you need to be mindful that the nature of marine lives and coral reefs should not be damaged while we are snorkeling and diving. It is also important point that we need to study and maintain our environment while travelling. By not discarding plastic and rubbish while travelling, let’s create perfect holidays among beauties of Marine Lives.
References : http://mergui.org/index.php/en/; wikipedia
