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Mermaid Resort, Sabang

Philippines Oriental Mindoro Sabang

Mermaid Resort, Sabang
Photo: Andrea Albini, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A dive resort with 34 rooms and suites on the beach at Sabang, Puerto Galera, on the north coast of Mindoro. The resort has its own PADI dive centre, a restaurant and a pool, and it is a good base for some of the best diving in the Philippines: the Verde Island Passage, just offshore, has some of the richest marine life in the world.


Getting there from Manila takes about 3 hours by road to Batangas port, then an hour by boat to Sabang.

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