Malapascua Island is just off the northern tip of Cebu. About 2km by 0.5km, you can walk around it in 1-2 hours. It has a population of around 4000, most of whom live off tourism, fishing or boat building.

The name Malapascua means “Bad Christmas”, so named by the Spanish who first landed here one stormy Christmas Day in the 1500′s. Today, Malapascua is a beautiful, sleepy island, as yet unspoiled by tourism with white sandy beaches, lush green palm trees and surrounded by clear blue waters.

Famed for its thriving community of mandarin fishes and being one of the best places in the world for spotting the elusive Thresher Shark, Malapascua offers an excellent variety of diving – from the lush coral gardens, to the amazing muck sites and wall dives, the island has something for everyone.

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A typical week-long trip to Malapascua would look like this:

Day 01 – Touch down at Cebu and a land/sea transfer to the resort, followed by 2 dives.

Day 02 till 06 – 3 dives, full board meal plan

Day 07 – Breakfast, followed by transfer to the airport for the flight home.

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4 Days 3 Nights Dive Package – USD 600

5 Days 4 Nights Dive Package – USD 800

6 Days 5 Nights Dive Package – USD 1000

7 Days 6 Nights Dive Package – USD 1200

Dive Package Extension – USD 200 per day/diver
Additional Dive – USD 35 per dive/diver

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INCLUSIONS:
- Land transfers to/from resort
- Resort accommodation
- Twin-sharing A/C rooms with hot showers
- 3 guided boat dives per day
- Scuba tanks, weight belts and weights

EXCLUSIONS
- Return airfare to/from Cebu
- All airport taxes (PHP550 per person)
- Philippines Visa, where applicable
- Meals
- Dive equipment rental
- Insurance
- Personal expenditure like phone/Internet, laundry, etc.

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BOOKINGS & ENQUIRIES

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Silkair flies daily to Cebu.

Cebu Pacific flies daily from various cities in the region, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Manila.

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Diving is possible year round but its recommended to schedule trips during the dry season (January–July), or from October–December (after the rainy season), so as to avoid the incovenience of flight or boat trip cancellations owing to bad weather.

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Monad Shoal – An underwater island on the edge of a 200m drop off, and is famous as the only place in the world where thresher sharks can be seen everyday. Manta rays have become a common sight over the last year. The shoal also attracts other pelagics such as devil rays and eagle rays. Manta rays and hammerheads are seasonal.

Whitetip Alley – You are 95% guaranteed to find whitetip sharks sleeping under rocks, and if you are lucky you will see them circling. Other life here includes banded boxer shrimp, crinoid cuttlefish, seahorses and scorpion fish.

The Guardhouse – Drop down to 24m to find the extremely rare pygmy seahorse, both pink and yellow. Then work your way back along a wall where you can find lionfish and many nudibranchs, including the beautiful spanish dancers, up to 30cm long. A painted frogfish is currently in residence.

Lighthouse – Mating mandarinfishes in their full glory! In the late afternoon we dive Lighthouse, where the rare and psychedelic mandarin fish are virtually guaranteed. As day turns into night you should start to catch some interesting nudibranchs and a variety of cephalopods – reef squid, bobtail squid, starry night octopus, the occasional blue-ringed octopus and cuttlefish. Also near this sight is a World War II wreck.
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