Malapascua and Dauin, Philippines March/April 2026
Malapascua and Dauin in the Philippines with Scuba Travel in March-April 2026. Diving trip over Easter
Join us to Malapascua and Dauin in the Philippines with Scuba Travel and our ambassador Per Lagerberg on a fantastic diving trip over Easter 2026. The trip takes place over Easter and you will experience two fantastic places where Malapascua offers exciting diving and the opportunity to dive with and see thresher sharks. Dauin is more focused on reef macro and nice relaxation. Two fantastic and popular places that offer wonderful and fun diving filled with experiences..
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Diving in Malapascua and Dauin, Philippines
Malapascua is a little gem in the middle of the Philippines. Here is one of the world's best and most famous places to dive and experience the incredibly beautiful thresher shark. Thresher sharks are basically seen daily out at one of the reefs and the diving is easy, shallow and comfortable. There is an opportunity to have the sharks right up in the mask and to take fantastic pictures.
The former reefs of the thresher sharks have started to attract tiger sharks and we will try to dive there as well to, if possible, experience these bastards as well. In addition to sharks, rays of various kinds are frequently seen here. Other dive sites are, for example, Gato Island, which is done as a day trip and where reef sharks are almost always seen. Apart from sharks, Malapascua is a very nice and relaxing island and there is also very good macro diving here.
Dauin – a diving paradise
Dauin in the central Philippines has become one of the Philippines' most popular destinations for divers in recent years. There is fantastic muck diving here. Large areas of sand and here and there oases with coral and reefs. In addition, fantastic reefs and small coral gardens with lots of marine life, fish and enormous species diversity. There are fish of different sizes, colors and shapes, even reef sharks, turtles, tuna, barracuda and other species are sometimes seen but also stingrays and eagle rays. Even manta rays and whale sharks sometimes pass by but with a lot of luck.
Invertebrates such as squid, nudibranchs, crustaceans and echinoderms dominate together with sponges, sea squirts and various corals or cnidarians. The species richness is fantastic and all dive sites are relatively close so it is rarely a long trip. The diving is varied and different animals thrive more or less well in different places so one day is rarely the same as the next. The marine life is really exciting and you will be able to experience a variety of strange animals that you may not have thought or even knew existed.
Dauin is a true diving paradise and you can actually go here all year round, with March and April being especially good as there are often a lot of frogfish and the weather is normally the best.
For those of you who wish to extend your trip either at the beginning or afterwards, it is entirely possible and we will help you find good solutions for this.
Itinerary day by day
March 26, 2026
You leave Scandinavia and fly to Cebu in the central Philippines
March 27
Arrival in Cebu where you will be met and transferred to your hotel at the airport.
March 28
After breakfast transfer by car and boat to Malapascua
28 March – 02 April
05 nights accommodation in deluxe double room including breakfast
10 dives including tank, weights, boat and guide. Diving in Kimod Shoal where the thresher sharks are found is included.
April 02
Transfer to southern Cebu and ferry to the neighboring island of Negros and Dumaguete where you will be met and
then transfer on to Dauin. This is a transfer day and we will stop somewhere for lunch.
Lunch is not included.
02 – 10 April
08 nights accommodation in a double room including half board.
Diving package with unlimited diving (Up to five dives/day) including tank, weights, boat and guide
April 10
You check out of the resort and here it is either a transfer to the airport and flight to Manila for onward flight home to Scandinavia or for those who extend the trip either a continued stay in the Philippines or perhaps in a major city on the way home. We will of course help you with arrangements here too.
April 11, 2026
For those who choose to fly home after the trip, you are expected to arrive home today
Please note!
Our program is only a preliminary plan that is influenced based on the external conditions that the weather gods reward us with. This means that we may have to move activities and dive sites to other days and also replace planned activities with alternatives if necessary. We ask you to be flexible.
