Philippines- Puerto Galera Trip Completed 2005
To be Updated

Join us on a FANTASTIC expedition to Puerto Galera. FROM ONLY $00 per diver $ non diver * Plus airport taxes approx $ per person Tour price includes: Return airfare Brisbane/Sydney/Manilla/Sydney/Brisbane flying Philippine Airlines 7 nights Portofino Resort, Puerto Galera – twin rooms 10 dives each Action Divers —inc tanks, weights & airfills Divers only—Free T-shirt, sunset cruise, welcome cocktail party, 1 hr hour kayak hire Airport transfers **Prices and itinerary subject to currency fluctuations and 2005 price changes. Click here to download a flyer Dive in warm clear waters amongst a mass of marine life... Experience colourful corals, hundreds of reef fish and some of the best wall diving the Philippines has to offer! Relax in the Spanish-Mediterranean designed Portofino Resort, located right on the white sandy beach. All rooms are air conditioned with full cooking facilities. Stroll along the beach to visit the many bars and restaurants nearby.

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Puerto Galera

Puerto Galera in Mindoro is known for its exceptionally beautiful little white sand beaches, some fringed with reefs teeming with rich and diverse marine life, and excellent diving spots. It has long been regarded by geologists, botanists, and students of the University of the Philippines as an ideal place to study the ecostructure of plants, animals, and micro-organisms in almost undisturbed natural conditions. In 1934, the Marine Biological station was set up. Forty years later, the United Nations Man & Biosphere Program International declared Puerto Galera a nature center and a marine sanctuary. However, its spectacular beaches were eventually discovered by the outside world and gradually became a favourite tourist destination.
Puerto Galera is accessible by boat from Batangas. There are buses that leave Manila daily for Batangas. An air-con bus leaves the Centerpoint Hotel in Ermita every day. You can get combined bus and boat tickets to Mindoro from the hotel.Today, Puerto Galera is a major destination for low-budget, fun-loving travellers who seek sun, sand and sea. Many come to enjoy its beaches, which are crowded with hotels, restaurants, discos, and rental services for water activities. White Beach and Tamaraw Beach, which have nice cottages, are the best places to go for swimming. The good snorkelling and diving sites are the beaches near Sabang: Coco Beach, Big and Small La Laguna, and nearby Paniquian and Verde Islands. There are dive shops that cater to those who want to enjoy the reefs. However, they enforce a ban on damaging or taking any of the marine life.

Exotic birds reside near a cascading fresh waterfall - swimming pool, where a restaurant patron may enjoy a special rum drink and tostadas, quesodillas, or Huevos Rancheros while overlooking the beauty of a reflected sunset and moon rise over Verde Island across the bay.

Located on the finest white sand beach in Puerto Galera and set in a grove of coconut palms, this condo-hotel is constructed in award winning, Spanish-Mediterranean style architecture.... white wash walls contrast with the red Vigan tile floors and roof. There are fine local woods hewn in a rustic but carefully finished texture complimenting the smooth and rounded plaster finishes.

There are 25 first class, fully furnished, air conditioned residential units (homes) with full cooking facilities in addition to a bar and full service restaurant in the resort.

For information contact Herb or the team

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