Palau Micronesia’s fabled Rock Islands offer some of the most beautiful ocean scenery in the world. Still, the majority of international tourism comes to Palau for one reason, world-class Palau scuba diving. This is not a new discovery; Palau has been known for decades. At this point there is a broad variety of lodgings, dive shops, and live-aboards ready to serve scuba divers of every budget and temperament. The best dive sites, while clustered together in a few regions, are relatively a long boat ride (30-90 minutes) from shore. Thus Palau is a particularly good place to dive from a live-aboard.