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Southeast Asia is a very famous travel destination particularly when you’re seeking warmer climate (nearly all the time), blue waters and wonderful landscapes, inexpensive food and accommodation, and nice people and Philippines can simply top on all those facets. With its unspoiled beaches, gracious locals, and breathtaking sceneries, a holiday to the Philippines offers a guarantee of cherished memories. Whether you are considering traveling alone, with the family, or group of friends, you will definitely get a piece of heaven in this Southeast Asian country. The Philippines will never fall short to stun you. The spectacular views above and under the sea, the traditions, the warmth, the food, and obviously, the sociable people are keen to greet tourists wherever and whenever.

Diving in Philippines

With numerous islands to discover, it makes sense that the Philippines is one of the best diving spots in the world. Stunning reefs, whale sharks, mantas and underwater UNESCO World Heritage sites attract divers into the crystal clear waters of the Pacific. While almost any destination will yield wonderful scuba diving, the best diving holidays in the Philippines are found aboard liveaboard diving vessels. These comfy yachts will move you to otherwise remote reefs and let you to dive the best sites across numerous islands in just a short amount of time. One of the most distant diving spots in the Philippines, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is considered a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Diving regions in Philippines (14)

Anilao (Mabini Peninsula)

Anilao, on the Mabini Peninsula in Batangas province, is one of the world's leading destinations for muck diving and macro underwater photography.

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Apo Island

A small volcanic island and protected marine reserve off the southeastern tip of Negros Island, south of Dumaguete, recognized as one of the Philippines' pioneering community-managed marine sanctuaries.

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Camiguin Island

Camiguin is a small volcanic island province in the Bohol Sea off Northern Mindanao, offering uncrowded, biodiverse diving across volcanic reefs, pinnacles and protected marine sanctuaries.

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Coron Bay

Coron Bay in the Calamian Islands of northern Palawan is one of the world's premier wreck diving destinations, holding Japanese World War II shipwrecks sunk in 1944.

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Dakak / Dapitan

Dakak, on the northern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula near Dapitan City, is a known dive area on Mindanao's Sulu Sea coast, offering slopes, coral thickets, vertical walls and caves.

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Davao / Samal Island

Samal Island (Island Garden City of Samal) in the Davao Gulf, less than two kilometers from Davao City, offers an emerging mix of coral reef diving, a giant clam sanctuary and WWII wrecks.

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El Nido

El Nido, on the northern tip of mainland Palawan, is the gateway to the Bacuit archipelago's 45 islands and islets, combining limestone cliffs, coral reefs and beaches within a large protected marine sanctuary.

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Malapascua

A small island off the northern tip of Cebu in the Visayan Sea, a dive destination since the early 1990s and internationally known as one of the few places where thresher sharks can be observed regularly.

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Moalboal

A dive region on the southwestern coast of Cebu Island, Philippines, known for the sardine run near Pescador Island and a string of reef and wall dive sites facing the Tanon Strait.

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Panglao

An island off the southwestern coast of Bohol in the Bohol Sea, together with the neighboring islands of Balicasag, Gak-ang and Pontod, forming one of the Philippines' best-known diving and beach destinations.

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Siquijor

An island province in the Bohol Sea south of Cebu, ringed by coral reefs that make it a well-regarded diving and snorkeling destination in the central Philippines.

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Subic Bay

Subic Bay, on the west coast of Luzon about 100 km northwest of Manila Bay, is a leading Philippine wreck-diving destination with a concentration of Spanish-American War and WWII shipwrecks.

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Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed atoll system in the middle of the Sulu Sea, rated among the world's best dive sites and accessible only by liveaboard.

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Verde Island

Verde Island lies in the current-swept Verde Island Passage between Luzon and Mindoro and is recognized as sitting at the center of the world's marine shorefish biodiversity.

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Dive centers in Philippines (20)

Country info

Capital
Manila
Region
Asia
Subregion
South-Eastern Asia
Population
103.279.800
Area
342.353 km2
Currency
Philippine peso (PHP)
Languages
English
Time zones
UTC+08:00
Dialing code
+63
Demonym
Filipino
Top-Level-Domain
.ph
Staatenbuende
Association of Southeast Asian Nations