Yup... am back from Malapascua already. Here's a summary:
- Dive resort was pretty good, clean and have nice food. Their thin crust pizza is really nice. People are generally very friendly. But one drawback is that they will charge you for anything... water refill, ice cubes, etc etc...
-Dive sites are superb. Managed to see the Thresher Shark... absolutely graceful with it's waving long tail. Lots of macro stuffs too, especially during night dives, where all kinds of crabs will be active... pretty nudibranches, but size wise is pretty small, averaging about 1.5 to 2 inches
- Travelling is a bitch if you don't do direct flight (MAS has, but very expensive). Our Cebu Air flight flies from LCCT to Manila (3 hr+), then transit flight to Cebu (about 1 hr). After that we have to ride a van for 3 hr+ to the jetty. After that a boat ride of 45 mins to reach the dive resort.
- Locals eat very salty food. We stopped by a local food store for lunch (like our mixed rice stall setup), and most of the stuffs are pretty salty (especially the vege). They eat a lot of pork... they have something like our siew yuk (very nice!), char siew (all fats), and other flavors like sweet and sour etc. Another really big thing there is grilled chicken (lechon manok). You can see it everywhere on the street. Didn't managed to try them except for the ones at the dive resort. Flavor is quite good.
Overall, a dive site worth visiting, IF you can endure the long travelling time, OR alternatively you can spend more and fly direct with MAS. ;)
3 comments:
This is my first time to know about Malapascua... seems to be a pretty good experience.
You won't know how well MAS is until you have suffered with other flights. Then after that, you will miss those flights and screw MAS for being so expensive and no thrills in their flights.
Not to mention, blogging material.
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Malapascua!!
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