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