Enjoy stress-free diving adventures as you island hop between exceptional locations in the Visayas, exploring the vast variety the Philippines has to offer from macro life to pelagics.
This unique exploratory safari of the islands of the Visayas region is operated by one of our preferred dive operators. Dive some of the best sites in the Philippines, with anything and everything from macro life to larger pelagics, coral reefs to immense walls covered in soft and hard corals, and bait balls.
You can mix and match a number of resorts in the Visayas, below is one possible itinerary that's available with tailor made adjustments to fit your personal diving bucket list. Possibilities include Malapascua, Bohol, Dumaguete, Moalboal, Sipalay and Siquijor Island.
Suggested Itinerary
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Days 1-2
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Depart the UK for Cebu
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Days 3-7
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Dive Dumaguete – critter hunting & coral covered Apo Island
This morning you're transferred by road and boat to Dumaguete, ‘City of Gentle People’, for the first stop on your Island Hopping Dive Safari. You stay at the Pura Vida Dive Resort for five nights, with two boat dives here each day (total of eight).
Divers will be amazed by the reef life and the Dauin area is possibly one of the best macro locations around, which is particularly popular amongst photographers. A short boat ride away is Apo Island where you can enjoy a drift dive, schooling pelagics, turtles, enormous grouper, napoleon wrasse, white-tip sharks and pristine hard and soft corals.
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Days 8-11
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Dive Moalboal - walls, caves, reefs & bait balls
Transfer by road and boat to Moalboal for a four night stay, staying at either Kasai Village Beach Resort or Turtle Bay Dive Resort. Enjoy two boat dives here each day (total of six).
Meaning ‘bubbling stream’, Moalboal is a small town on Cebu Island, 89 kilometres south-west of Cebu City. The range of diving is excellent, with vertical walls, a cathedral-like cave, healthy coral reefs and plenty of macro life. Huge bait balls sometimes gather in the waters off Moalboal and whale sharks are seen on occasion. An optional excursion to see resident nearby whale sharks is available on request - contact us to arrange this.
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Days 12-16
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Transfer to beautiful Malapascua Island to search for thresher sharks
Transfer north by road and boat to the idyllic Malapascua island, best known for encounters with threshers and white sand beaches. You stay at the Ocean Vida Dive Resort for five nights, enjoying two boat dives here each day (total of eight).
Alongside threshers it's possible to encounter white-tip, black-tip, bamboo, nurse and cat sharks. The marina reserve of Gato Island is not to be missed, home to banded sea snakes, stingrays, tuna, snappers, nudibranchs, cuttlefish, seahorses and mantis shrimp.
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Day 17:
Depart Cebu
Transfer to Cebu airport and depart on an overnight flight back to the UK.
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Day 18:
Arrive UK
Please note: Choose your locations, length of stay and number of dives creating your very own island hopping adventure. Discuss your options with the Dive team.
