The Mergui Archipelago consists of 800 islands of stunning, tropical beauty that man has scarcely touched, which is located at the south western part of Myanmar.

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Even though they posses quite long coastal area and many hundreds of islands, the ancient Myanmar (Burmese) rather interested to settle on the land than on the island.

The lack of human interference is believed to have left some of the larger islands with the full range of animal life that is no longer found undisturbed on the Asian mainland, including elephants, tigers, deer, wild boar and many others.

Apart from a few "Sea Gypsies"(Morken), there’s not even an indigenous population. Through a few strange quirks of history, most of the Mergui Archipelago has been left to birds, beasts and plant life.

Most of islands are covered with the vivid green of topical rain forest and boundary by plain white sand beaches. Crystal clean water and beautiful coral life make to visitor to say" That is tropical paradise". 

There are many beautiful islands in the archipelago. Among of them Lampi, Clara, Gt.Swinton( Kyun Pi la), Pulau Beda( Nyaung Wee), Lounghborough( Jalan) The sisters( Langan), Macleod ( khat Yin Khwa), Elphinstone and Ross island prominent.

There is a group of banks at the south western part of archipelago, known as Burma bank, which is quite famous dive spot in scuba divers world. Black Rock, Western Rocky, Twin islands and Ok rock are also famous for scuba diving.

Pulau Beda, Lounghborough, Lampi, The sister and Elphinestone are main base islands for sea gypsies, who used to settle on those islands in the rainy season and travel around the islands in the dry season.

Although the town Mergui ( Myeik ) is  the main city of this archipelago, The tourists who would like to travel through out the archipelago used Kawthoung ( Victoria Point ) as a gate way of Mergui archipelago. Tavoy is another big and famous city which located  on the far north of archipelago.