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Anilao, Batangas

Location: Anilao, Batangas (Philippines)

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Top Dive Sites (make sure you dive these!)
1	Kirby's Rock	With 3 votes(s).
2	Twin Rocks and Pulang Buli	With 2 votes(s).
3	Mainit Point	With 1 votes(s).

Marine Sightings:

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Beauforts Crocodilefish

Bluespotted Ray

Bottlenose Dolphin

Clown Anemonefish

Dugong

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Great Barracuda

Great Hammerhead

Green Sea Turtle

Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Marbled Ray

Potato Grouper

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Spotted Eagle Ray

Trumpetfish

Whitetip Reef Shark

Reviews:

Here are the last 10 reviews for Anilao, Batangas. Show all of them.

Visited	Comments
June 2010	Spent a week at Anilao staying at Bambu Villa. Comfortable accommodation but some issues with consistent electricity. Bit overpriced for what it was but a work in progress. Staff were excellent! 41 active dive sites of which I only dived 13. Generally excellent diving with lots to look at. Dive sites very easily accessible with a good variety of depth and difficulty. Dived with Ronnie Corpuz from Rob Ryan Divers who was excellent. While it is not one of the Philippines most spectacular sites it is easily accessible from Manila and provides lots of easy dives and photographic opportunities. A fascinating new muck dive at Secret Bay was a photographers' paradise with most unusual critters like black walking frogfish, flying gurnards, thorny seahorses and left-eye flounder. Hot springs rise up from various parts of the bay. Definitely worth a look. Date posted: 08-Jul-2010 10:12 by: khasell
October 2006	By far one of the best macro-muck dive I've been on. A site known as the dump had a huge variety of 'special fish' such as helmet ganard, ornate ghost pipe shish, dwarf cuddlefish, gypsy sea moth...Everything that you have on your rare fish must see list can be found in 20' of water around sunset at the dump. Eagle Point Resort was an awsome place to stay and it included a fullsize saltwater pool sharks included. Date posted: 15-Sep-2008 11:47 by: Pikapepper
June 2006	Mainit is known to the local divers to have some fierce currents. This weekend, while diving with a group, we experience some down current. There was some damage from the recent typhoon to some coral especially leaf corals which are fragile. Overall, it was a good dive and our french guests loved the drift dive. They saw 2 blacktip sharks too. Date posted: 15-Jun-2006 05:50 by: solanabezo
May 2006	There are 35 dive resorts in the area which you should be listing. There is also trekking that can be done in the area. Date posted: 01-Jun-2006 11:34 by: Joel
February 2006	i want some more, i want to try again! because i didnt saw what i want to saw because of the jelly fish it so ichy! but snorkling didnt waste my money... more power.. god bless! it touch my hear when they tell the history abput the beach... Date posted: 11-Feb-2006 15:36 by: catherine
February 2004	I go to Anilao almost every weekend. A lot of its sites were declared sanctuaries and active education of the locals for the past 25 years rehabilitated the area. The corals are again vibrant. Anilao is known for a lot of color in its dive sites. A lot of colorful soft coral and colorful fish life make it distinct from the other sites in the country. Twin Rocks is the epitome of an Anilao site: shallow, sheltered, but teeming with diverse rich reef life: a lot of diverse coral, diverse critters, a lot of reef fish it blocks your view of the sun as you look upward, and occasional pelagics drop in and say hi. Pulang Buli is something similar, but it's a deeper site. Which gives you a higher chance of shark, ray and turtle sightings. There are many many other nice sites in Anilao. There are gentle sheltered and colorful areas, these are popular with new divers, or even very experienced divers with cameras; there are extreme currents in extreme places, where you are guaranteed sharks, barracuda, tuna. There are frequent interactions with curious octopus and cuttlefish and squids. Anilao also has great night diving. Date posted: 06-Sep-2005 08:14 by: Pinky

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