My wife and I are both experienced divers and are planning on backpacking 6-12 months in Southeast Asia in just over a years time. However we are not certain on what to do gear wise.
Our plan is to backpack starting in Bangkok through the north of Thailand followed by Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. This section will have very minimal diving and probably last 2-3 months. After that the bulk of our time will be spent from the south of Thailand and the many islands of Malaysia/Indonesia and the Phillippines where we will be diving a lot. We are also both dive professionals currently working P/T in Canada (She is a DM and I am an instructor) and have tossed around he idea of guiding/teaching in SE Asia whilst we travel as well.
My main question is how viable do you think it'll be to carry around our full dive setups throughout Asia. Do shops in this region usually include gear rentals for free in their price and do shops always require a full personal kit to work PT for them??
Here at home I dive primarily SM as well and hope to do some more advanced tec divers/wreck penetrations whilst traveling as well. How easy is it to rent this type of gear in the more wreck heavy locations? (coron Bay for example)
Thanks for any feedback!
