Travel Guide: Moalboal

What seems to be a sleepy town in western Cebu is booming with active coastal life. Moalboal, a two hours drive from Cebu City is a gateway to some of the best diving spots not only in Cebu but in the entire Philippines. Home to around 28,00 inhabitants, this provincial town is a well known tourist and diving paradise due to its unspoiled fine white sand beaches and diverse marine life. Divers and snorkelers will enjoy the rich and colorful underwater life of its numerous dive... Read More

Moalboal Revisited: The Sardine Run, Sea Hawks and Remoras, Pipefish Colony and Underwater Macro Paradise

Millions of sardines cloud above us   “This is the southern tip of Pescador Island. Below is a wall, we will drift northward around the wall. We expect to see the school of  sardines, of course; nudis; fusiliers; barracudas; tunas; and if we are lucky, the threshers”, our dive master told us in all smile, before we descended in Pescador Island. It took us twenty months to be back in Moalboal. The urge to revisit the place was unstoppable. The stories of... Read More

Tourist Friendly Cebu

Maayong pag-abot sa Sugbu! My Cebuano sounds good huh! Well, my mom hails from Palompon, a Cebuano speaking town in Leyte. Though I was born and raised in Manila, the visayan blood runs in my veins, and I have been exposed to the dialect not only because it is widely spoken at home but due to the fact the I have traveled in many Bisaya (as what others would call it) speaking places in the central and southern Philippines. I also have a lot of friends and colleagues who speak Cebuano... Read More