Tours and activities

Tubbataha Reefs

Philippines Palawan

Tubbataha Reefs
Photo: Simon Hefti, Schweiz (de:User:Nikswieweg), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two remote coral atolls in the Sulu Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with some of the best diving in the world: walls, sharks, manta rays and turtles.


It can only be reached by liveaboard dive boats from Puerto Princesa, during a short season from mid-March to mid-June. Book well ahead.

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