The Oktoberfest festival in Puerto Galera, celebrating our being named the official Diving Capital of the Philippines, came to a literally all-singing-all-dancing climax on Sunday night at the official LLV after-party
Well after months, and years of saying it about ourselves, and quite rightly so, the town of Puerto Galera and its more than 60 dive operators are celebrating the fact that we have officially been named the Diving Capital of the Philippines!
On the eve of Puerto Galera being officially named the Diving Capital of the Philippines, we sat down tourism expert Noe Lineses to ask: why is this happening and why does Puerto Galera deserve it?
One dive site in Puerto Galera is sure to raise the pulse of anyone who knows about it: The Canyons! This exhilarating drift dive site, discovered in 1981, was rated among the “50 most beautiful dive sites in the world” by CNN in 2012.
Puerto Galera’s inaugural Oktoberfest celebrations, held in honour of the forthcoming announcement that the municipality is to be be named the Diving Capital of the Philippines, have gotten off to a fantastic start
Our beautiful Verde Island Passage waters are home to some very special visitors right now – 14ft long, graceful (and entirely harmless) thresher sharks are being spotted on morning dives almost every day