After 3 weeks of travelling we are back home.
First, I would like to thank all the forum members that helped us focusing on what intrest us in this trip.
And now for the trip. Since there is a lot to write I will do it shortly (i hope) and in parts
Getting there
We flew all the way from Israel to Hong Kong and stayed there for 2 days till our flight to Cebu.
The flight to Cebu nearly didn't happen since Cathay told us the company wants to increase profit and therefore performs overbooking. Hence, there is no room for us on the scheduled flight (note that we got confirmation on the flights about 4 months before). After some arguments and long faces there was a miracle and we got onboard.
First destination - Malapacua
From Cebu airport we took a private cab to Maya (2500 peso) that took around 2.5 hours.
From Maya we waiting for some more people to arrive so we can share a boat to Malapacua. After 15 min we managed to be 5 people on the boat (150 peso each) and started the boat ride to the island. The weather was sunny and not that hot.
We stayed at Cocobana Beach Resort (http://www.cocobana.ch/bounty_us.htm) and dived with Thresher Shark Divers (http://www.malapascua-diving.com/).
The Island is beautiful but the shore line looks like a construction site. We were told that there is a salvage zone (some space from the sea line till any building) that the government is enforcing. Hence, many constructions are being taken down. Inspite the fact that it looks terrible, many bussiness are closing down so I don't know if there will be anything left in the next year.
Our first day of diving was to see the Thresher shark. Bad visibility and poor luck came to seing only a glimps of the shark and nothing more. Since the sea was starting to get worse the next dive was done in Bantigi and we saw there some great micro life.
On the next day the weather got worse and there were no dives. Apperantly there was a typhoon in Manila and it affected the whole philippines. We found confort in a good restaurant on the island - La Isla Bonita.
We didn't do any dives on the next day either since the bad weather and we decided to get off the island as soon as possible since there was nothing to do there if you are not diving. In the mean time we got to know some other unhappy people...
On our last day we found a boat that is going to Maya (with extra cash due to bad weather crusing). We found ourselvs wet from the rain and from the ocean.
Conclusion : Can't really tell beacuse we did only 2 dives in 4 days. I can't recommend the dive club from various reasons. Maybe next time we will take the Exotic Divers.
First, I would like to thank all the forum members that helped us focusing on what intrest us in this trip.
And now for the trip. Since there is a lot to write I will do it shortly (i hope) and in parts
Getting there
We flew all the way from Israel to Hong Kong and stayed there for 2 days till our flight to Cebu.
The flight to Cebu nearly didn't happen since Cathay told us the company wants to increase profit and therefore performs overbooking. Hence, there is no room for us on the scheduled flight (note that we got confirmation on the flights about 4 months before). After some arguments and long faces there was a miracle and we got onboard.
First destination - Malapacua
From Cebu airport we took a private cab to Maya (2500 peso) that took around 2.5 hours.
From Maya we waiting for some more people to arrive so we can share a boat to Malapacua. After 15 min we managed to be 5 people on the boat (150 peso each) and started the boat ride to the island. The weather was sunny and not that hot.
We stayed at Cocobana Beach Resort (http://www.cocobana.ch/bounty_us.htm) and dived with Thresher Shark Divers (http://www.malapascua-diving.com/).
The Island is beautiful but the shore line looks like a construction site. We were told that there is a salvage zone (some space from the sea line till any building) that the government is enforcing. Hence, many constructions are being taken down. Inspite the fact that it looks terrible, many bussiness are closing down so I don't know if there will be anything left in the next year.
Our first day of diving was to see the Thresher shark. Bad visibility and poor luck came to seing only a glimps of the shark and nothing more. Since the sea was starting to get worse the next dive was done in Bantigi and we saw there some great micro life.
On the next day the weather got worse and there were no dives. Apperantly there was a typhoon in Manila and it affected the whole philippines. We found confort in a good restaurant on the island - La Isla Bonita.
We didn't do any dives on the next day either since the bad weather and we decided to get off the island as soon as possible since there was nothing to do there if you are not diving. In the mean time we got to know some other unhappy people...
On our last day we found a boat that is going to Maya (with extra cash due to bad weather crusing). We found ourselvs wet from the rain and from the ocean.
Conclusion : Can't really tell beacuse we did only 2 dives in 4 days. I can't recommend the dive club from various reasons. Maybe next time we will take the Exotic Divers.