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Cebu: Scuba Diving in Pescador Island and Sardine Snorkeling

1. Cebu: Scuba Diving in Pescador Island and Sardine Snorkeling

Explore Pescador Island's rich biodiversity on this thrilling island-hopping tour. Throughout this amazing day trip, embark on a journey to dive into the blue waters and enjoy snorkeling among the gorgeous underwater life found on the island. You will begin the day with a convenient hotel pickup. Your one-on-one diving instructor will take you to Pescador Island, where you get to get to discover the rich marine sanctuary of the area, where you'll dive alongside a huge school of fish, and could potentially have the chance to encounter sea turtles. There will be the chance to spot jumping dolphins, as you take in the stunning island views whilst approach Pescador Island.

Cebu: Moalboal Island Hopper Cruise with Kawasan Falls Visit

2. Cebu: Moalboal Island Hopper Cruise with Kawasan Falls Visit

Visit the famous thousand sardines in Moalboal and take a chance to swim with the turtles in Panagsama. Explore Pescador Island's rich biodiversity on this thrilling island hopping and snorkeling tour. Your tour will start once you are picked up from your hotel within Cebu City, Mandaue, Mactan, or Lapu-lapu or direct from Mactan-Cebu International Airport. You will be dropped off at the dock where you will meet your local guide and board a motorized boat. You will be provided with swimming goggles for snorkeling, as well as life jackets. The boat will take you to a snorkeling and swimming spot off the shores of Moalboal, where you can get an unobstructed view of the world-famous sardine run. The phenomenon happens year-round, so you don't need much luck to witness millions of sardines swim together for a breathtaking sight. You can snorkel to watch sea turtles gently swim in their natural habitat. Make sure to keep a safe distance from them as well to avoid disturbing and hurting them. You can also bring or rent a waterproof camera to capture your time with these gentle sea creatures. After island-hopping in Moalboal, you will be taken to Badian where you will meet your canyoneering guide. Enjoy the complimentary lunch before setting out to Kawasan Fall. Make your way to Kawasan Falls by trekking, rappelling, and swimming through the beautiful river canyons of Badian. Savor the adrenaline rush and take your canyoneering adventure to new heights by jumping from cliffs as high as 30 feet. Spend the rest of the day swimming and diving in the cool waters of Kawasan Falls. *Effective June 2, 2023, the provincial government of Cebu has issued a temporary closure of Kawasan Falls in Badian to facilitate essential cleanup efforts. We will do the canyoneering Tour in Kabutongan Falls and you can still anticipate an exhilarating experience with jumps, treks, and refreshing swimming.

Cebu: Bantayan Island and Virgin Island Hopping Day Tour

3. Cebu: Bantayan Island and Virgin Island Hopping Day Tour

Start your tour with an early pick up at your hotel at 4:00 am. Eat your breakfast along the way and board a ferry bound for Bantayan Island. After arriving at the island, you’ll start your tricycle tour. Your first stop is Omagieca Obo-ob Mangrove Garden. You can learn more about the importance of mangroves on your visit. It can also provide you with a stunning backdrop to your travel photos. In fact, it is one of the locations where the movie Camp Sawi was filmed. Your next stop is Paradise Beach. True to its name, this white-sand beach is bordered by pristine waters and beautiful rock formations.  You’ll then experience cliff-diving in Bantayan in the German Ruins. The ruins themselves are actually part of an unfinished house that locals say was built by a German. Apart from being a good cliff-diving spot, the German Ruins also offer visitors stunning views of the sky and the sea. Next, you’ll visit Kota Beach, which is famous for its powdery sand and sandbar. Your last stop for this tour is Virgin Island and enjoy the powdery white sand and the shimmering azure water.

Cebu: Moalboal Swimming with Sardines & Dolphin Watching

4. Cebu: Moalboal Swimming with Sardines & Dolphin Watching

Explore Pescador Island's rich biodiversity on this thrilling island hopping and snorkeling tour. Throughout this amazing day trip, embark on a journey to dive into the blue waters and enjoy snorkeling among the gorgeous underwater life found on the island. Start the day with a convenient hotel pick-up then meet your friendly guide at Moalboal to hop on your pump boat. Spot jumping dolphins, and take in the stunning island views as you approach Panagsama Beach. Next, gear up with your snorkel, mask, and fins. Stop at a world-class diving and snorkeling location where you can see protected coral, and examine the native marine species. The marine sanctuary will allow you to swim among the fish, and even feed them. You might even get a glimpse of sea turtles or Cebu's famous sardine run - one adventure that you can't miss as you find yourself surrounded by huge schools of swimming sardines. After this, take the chance to swim with sea turtles at Talisay Point. Then take an amazing boat ride that'll get you glimpsing dolphins playing in the sea. This journey will conveniently take you to and from your hotel, allowing you to focus on creating priceless underwater memories.

Malapascua: Advance Divers Shark Dive & Optional Transfer

5. Malapascua: Advance Divers Shark Dive & Optional Transfer

With their big eyes and long tails, thresher sharks are some of the planet’s most attractive sharks — and Malapascua Island is the only place where you can see them every day. Choose this shark dive to watch these spectacular creatures at Monad or Kimud Shoal. There has never been a better time to come for thresher sharks. Sightings have been amazing, the best in our 20 years here! Thresher sharks have always historically been seen at nearby Monad Shoal and in recent years in great numbers almost every day. But recently they are not as reliable at Monad, we think it may be because there are now tigers sharks and bull sharks at Monad which we do occasionally see! It seems the thresher sharks have "moved' to Kimud Shoal, a site similar to Monad, but shallower and further away. So we often schedule our shark dives here, P500 fuel surcharge applies. And they are almost always incredible sightings! Kimud used to be known for hammerhead sharks, and they are still around, but only very occasionally spotted. We do still dive Monad and there we do a "swimming" dive in an area away from most of the other divers. Most divers stay in one particular spot kneeling, waiting for sharks to come along. We generally swim around various cleaning stations, looking for them. We have spectacular, often close-up sightings almost every day, in a much more private setting. It is also more interesting as you're moving and have the chance to see many other creatures like seahorses, frogfish and ghost pipefish as well as other pelagics like rays and other sharks! Threshers always used to be most common at dawn, but we are now getting sightings throughout the morning. So we usually offer double shark dives, and our new three-shark-dive trips are proving very popular. We also offer 3-dive day trips for sharks followed by a double dive at Gato, our best-known dive site other than the sharks. We finalise the exact schedule for the shark dive a day in advance, so we cannot tell you for any particular day in the future what schedule will be diving. So just be aware if you're coming for a short time that there are several options for this dive. We may also offer more than one option on some days. it will usually be a 2 or 3 dive trip, maybe including some other sites. Both Monad Shoal and Kimud are more challenging dive sites. It's possible to go if you are an Open Water diver, but for your safety and comfort, you need to do it with an Instructor for an extra fee. After meeting at the dive centre, hop on a spacious banca boat out to the dive site. Once there, dive to depths of between 16–30 meters (52.5–98.4 feet) at Monad, or to 12 meters at Kimud. An experienced PADI Divemaster will take you to spot thresher sharks. Enjoy the chance to also see other exotic marine life, such as whitetip reef sharks, grey sharks, devil rays, blue-ringed octopus, ornate ghost pipefish, frogfish, and a huge variety of nudibranchs and shrimps. You will return to the dive shop after the dive(s). Please note that diving equipment is an add-on.

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What people are saying about Cebu

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Magical experience. It’s great that proceeds go to the community which lacks other means of income. Sad that tourist like me polute the waters but it does save the turtles and sardines. Also tourism helps build schools, hospitals and roads.