Apo Island is located about 5 km off the southeast coast of Negros Island and south of Dumaguete City. You can reach Apo Island by boat from Silliman Beach, on the North side of Dumaguete.Visit our resort near Apo Island, the Bahura Resort and Spa. it is one of the best scuba diving sites in thePhilippines.

CHAPEL POINT (15m)
Location: The buoy off Apo Island Diving
Attraction:good coral heads and the fish life is profilic
It's a drift dive under the buoy. You can see good coral heads, soft corals, sea stars, several sources of nudibranchs, gorgonian sea fans, whip corals and basket sponges. Fish life such as tuna, barracuda, black and white snappers, Vlaming's Unicornfish, trumphetfish can also be seen in this site.

ROCK POINT (10m)
Location: by banca from Apo Island Diving
Attraction: good fish life
This site is normally gets some heavy weather, but it has a good fish life.The dive begins with a gentle slope made up of rocks and coral heads, green Tubastrea corals, Dendrophthya soft tree corals. Variety of fishes can also be seen such as Picasso Triggerfish, Black and White Snappers,moray eels, Blacktip and Whitetip
Sharks and large Bumphead Wrasse.

MARINE SANCTUARY (10m)
Location: The buoy off the marine sanctuary to the east of Rock Point
Attraction: Giant Clams, turtles and manta rays
Marine Sanctuary has a mixture of walls, slopes and sandy patches with black corals. The western side of the sanctuary was seeded by giant clams, nudibranchs, sea star, feather stars and clownfish. The fish life includes the Vlaming's Unicornfish, shoals of jacks, turtles, Mlack and White snappers and Manta Rays are common.

MAMSA POINT (15m)
Location: Off Mamsa Point
Attraction: Black and Whitetip Reef Sharks
Mamsa Point is named for its schools of jacks. There are some nice gorgonians on the wall and other pelagic species, groupers, scorpionfish, lionfish and Black and Whitetip Reef Sharks.

COCONUT POINT (25m)
Location: West Centre of the north side of the island
Attraction:Sarcophyton soft corals, Dendrophylia soft tree corals,sweetips, Vlaming Unicornfish and White Reef Sharks Coconut Point has a usual strong current. It attracts fish such as barrracuda, sweetips, jacks, tuna,Vlaming unicornfish, Whitetip Reef Sharks. The slope has a variety of soft corals.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Although Apo Island is a primarily a diving destination, there are some other interesting activities that you could do in the island. One of these is trekking to the lighthouse, visiting the lover's beach or going to Malatapay Market during Wednesday to shop for all sort of goodies from bolos, native handbags and ukay-ukay products (second hand clothing) and other native activities such as live animal auction.

TRAVEL BRIEF:
There are daily PAL and Air Philippines flight going to Dumaguete. The flight from Manila takes about an hour. Dumaguete is also accessible throught Cebu by taking a Supercat Ferry. From Dumaguete, you can take a two and a half pumpboat going to Apo Island.

RESORT:

Bahura Resort and Spa- www.bahura.com