We are excited to offer a special Philippines itinerary that includes 2 very different locations with beautiful coral, spectacular muck diving, octopus, nudibranchs, sea horses, whale shark snorkel, 2 island dive excursions, and land excursions. The Philippines is a nation of 7,000 islands and we will get a taste of it.
 

We fly into Manila and take private air-conditioned vans to our private speedboat that takes us to our first location.

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Atlantis Puerto Galera is our first stop.   We will find abundant schooling reef fish,  jacks, snappers, fairy basslets, trigger fish, groupers, trevally, drummers and barracuda, set the scene against vibrant hard and soft coral reefs. Turtles, moray eels, cephalopods and macro crustaceans are all found in abundance.at varied dive sites, some with no current and some drift diving. Some critters you may not have seen before are stick pipefish, ornate pipefish, striped eel catfish, electric clams, giant clams, giant frogfish, harlequin sweetlips and spot faced moray eels to name a few!  There are large green turtles and hawksbill turtles at both locations. 

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We will be staying at the unique hillside 4 star Atlantis Puerta Galera  with it's superb gourmet restaurant, beautiful pool and high end spa!

After 6 wonderful nights right in the heart of bustling Puerta Galera, we return to Manila with our private transport and then fly south to Dumaguete.

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Atlantis Dumaguete is the second 4 star location, on the beach, in the quiet village of Dauin. It offers spectacular macro-opportunities with its muck diving sites. You are guaranteed to see at least 3 of the 7 types of octopus that inhabit this area and possibly all on one site!