The Philippines with the Oslofjord Dive Center 04 October

Philippines Malapascua and Dauin Fall 2024.
Together with Oslofjorden Dykkesenter
October 04 - 18, 2024

The Visayas in the central Philippines is known for fantastic diving and a round trip here with visits to several sites is highly appreciated. You start the trip with diving at paradisiacal Malapascua Island, famous for its thresher sharks. Finish in Dauin as with its idyllic location by the sea and a climate that is good all year round and on top of that absolutely fantastic diving where everything is close by so this is a real gem.

Relaxation and vacation, leisurely pace - Come with us to the lovely Visayas in October 2024. A maximum of 18 people can fit on the trip Oslofjord Diving Center. You will visit two completely different places during the trip and have the opportunity to relax between diving and enjoying the sun and swimming. There are reasons why many people fall in love with the Philippines with its lovely resorts, pleasant climate, wonderful diving and fantastic people. Many go here again, again and again. Additional programs with transfers and accommodation with breakfast can of course be arranged.

Your accommodation - on the island of Malapascua offers Evolution resort simple good accommodation directly by the sea and with the diving center right next door. Here you enjoy diving, sun, beautiful beaches and unwind quickly. Here is the exciting thresher shark to experience for those who want to. Early mornings and then nice days on the beach interspersed with a little more diving is a nice start to your trip. 5 nights will be spent on this lovely little island with its lovely beaches and fine diving.

After Malapascua and nice diving, you go to one of the most famous dive sites in the Philippines, classic Dauin. Good comfortable accommodation in lovely Atmosphere resort where you have good diving and relaxation. Here you can enjoy beautiful reefs and lots of exciting marine life. Here you are offered a lot of critter diving that is among the best in the world. Apo Island also offers fabulously beautiful reefs with beautiful walls covered in corals, gorgonians, sponges and here there is a rich marine life with fish and many different invertebrates. Diving to Apo Island is included in the trip and in Dauin marine park fees are also included. Breakfast is offered in the accommodation and in Atmosphere there is also a restaurant, bar, massage, a pool and of course diving. You will stay here for 8 nights.

Who's going on the trip? - Along for the ride is Oslofjord Diving Center which takes you on a wonderful adventure to some of the best places in the Philippines. 

 

Diving at Malapascua

The diving center is located directly adjacent to the Evolution resort. The dive center has three comfortable dive boats that will take you to all dive sites in the area around Malapascua. They have very good guides when it's time to dive. Malapascua is mainly known for having very good shark diving and if you want to see thresher sharks this is an excellent place to dive. In the deep waters around the Monad Shoal and Kemod Shoal reefs, these sharks live and hunt. If you like macro photography, you are guaranteed to see various nudibranchs, but also frogfish, seahorses and different kinds of squid are common here. 

Diving in Dauin

Dauin just south of the city of Dumaguete on the island of Negros in central Visayas has become, and rightfully so, one of the Philippines' most popular destinations for divers in recent years. Here is the world-famous island of Apo Island and also the whale sharks In Oslob just north of southern Cebu that have made the region famous. However, what is most famous here is the fantastic macro diving. Large areas of sand and mud and interspersed here and there oases with corals and reefs and also some artificial reefs to increase the amount of fish and species richness. Here you can find fish of all imaginable sizes, colors and shapes. Also hammerhead sharks and thresher sharks and reef sharks are sometimes seen with a lot of luck out at Apo Island, but also stingrays, eagle rays, manta rays and other things are sometimes seen there. Turtles are very common out at Apo Island

The invertebrates, cephalopods, nudibranchs, crustaceans and echinoderms dominate together with sponges, sea urchins and various corals or sea urchins. The species richness is fantastic and all dive sites are relatively close so there are rarely long trips except to Apo Island in particular. The diving is varied and different animals thrive more or less well in different places, which is why one day is rarely the same as the next, even if at first glance it may seem like "Help, what am I doing here". But with the help of experienced guides with familiar eyes and knowledge of marine life, you will be able to experience a lot of fun and excitement with a variety of strange animals that you might not even have thought existed. 

Dauin is a real diving paradise and you can go here all year round as the weather is relatively stable and the area is very calm and peaceful. For those of you who want to extend the journey either at the beginning or after Dauin, it is entirely possible and we will help you find good solutions for this.

Itinerary day by day

Day 1
You leave Scandinavia and go to Cebu in the central Philippines and the region known as the Visayas. 

Day 2
Arrival in Cebu and from here you have a transfer to an airport hotel with accommodation in Cebu the first night.

Day 3
After breakfast there will be a transfer by car and boat to Malapascua and Evolution Resort.

Day 3 - 8
05 nights accommodation part in a double room including breakfast.
8 dives pre-booked including tank, nitrox, weights, boat and guide.

Day 8
You check out from the resort and here there is a transfer by boat and car to the ferry terminal in southern Cebu and on to Dumaguete die further transfer to Dauin and Atmosphere resort where you check in.

Day 8 - 16
08 nights accommodation part in deluxe double room including breakfast.
Dive package with 11 dives pre-booked. Tank and weights as well as marine park fees are included here.
Including diving at Apo Island with boat and guide. Nitrox is included during the week for those who are nitrox certified.

Day 16
Check-out and late transfer by ferry and car to Cebu. Fly back to Scandinavia in the evening or, for those who extend the trip, either a continued stay in the Philippines or perhaps in a big city on the way home. We will of course help you with arrangements here as well. For those of you who wish to extend and accompany Magnus for additional days to Anilao, there is a ready proposal for that in our PDF here on the page under complete travel information.

Day 17
Back in Scandinavia.

Please note!
Our program is only a preliminary plan that is influenced based on the external conditions that the weather gods reward us with. This means that we may have to move activities and dive sites to other days and also replace planned activities with alternatives if necessary. We ask you to be flexible.