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| Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort, Dauin - Dumaguete |
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Pura Vida Beach Resort is located on on an unspoiled 3
kilometres beach in Dauin, Dumaguete, the second largest city on Negros island, is 15km north. The resort, built by and for divers and is managed by
Chris, a Swiss PADI staff instructor. |
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| Pura Vida Beach Resort There are ten spacious, deluxe rooms
located beach and poolside, with air-con, ceiling fan, cable-TV and hot shower. There are also ten airy, native bamboo bungalows located in the back part of the resort with ceiling fans and bathroom with hot shower. |
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The Beach Restaurant is located above the dive
centre and offers a great view of the sea and pool area. A variety of Asian and international dishes are available.
Enjoy your evening at the Pool Bar with a tropical drink or
a cold San Miguel beer.
PURA VIDA SPA offers a blending of traditional therapeutic and Asian exotic massage techniques to help you relax and balance your body and mind. |
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Getting there:
The fast ferry from Cebu City will bring you to Dumaguete in about 3 1/2 hours. We will meet you at the Pier and in 20
minutes, you are at Pura Vida. There are also direct flights from Manila to Dumaguete. The best, easiest and most comfortable way to reach the Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort is to let the Sea Explorers Head Office in Cebu organize the transport. |
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| Sea Explorers at Pura Vida Resort, Dauin |
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Sea Explorers Gold Palm 5 Star Dive Centre is on the beach and is managed by Herve Jain from France. He is also a PADI instructor and along with Lee from Germany and Rolf from
Switzerland, are able to teach PADI dive courses in many different languages.
Local dive masters: Jesse, Rico, Carlos, and Chito do an excellent job of guiding their many repeating customers.
The facility has ample gear storage and rinse areas and welcomes all divers back from their dives with fresh fruits.
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| PADI Career Development
Centre
- Our own PADI Course Director Chris Heim from Switzerland leading 4 Instructor courses a year at this location.
- Large a/c classroom with all the latest teaching aids
- We have taught classes in Swiss, German, Japanese, Philippino, Dutch, English, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish and French
- "Train and Teach with a Smile"
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DIVE BOATS
- "Gypsy": Native outrigger boat for safaris, transfers and day trips. Capacity: max. 12 divers
- "Spirit": Native outrigger boat for transfers and day trips. Capacity: max. 8 divers
- "Island Explorer": Native outrigger boat for safaris, transfers and day trips. Capacity: max 12 divers
- Speedboat for short trips. Capacity: max. 6 divers
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OUR PROFESSIONAL SCUBA DIVING SERVICE OFFERS
- FUN DIVES in small groups (max. four divers) with personal service.
- ORIENTATION DIVES- if have not had a dive in a long time or just to make you feel more comfortable in tropical waters.
- Full range of PADI COURSES including:
- Bubble maker and Seal Team for children
- Discover Scuba Diving
- Scuba Diver
- Open Water Diver up to Dive
master
- Different Specialty-Courses (e. g. NITROX, Night, Naturalist, Drift, Deep, Photo)
- Assistant Instructor
- Instructor Development course (IDC)
- DIVE TRIPS around the Visayas.
- ISLAND HOPPING available!!
- DIVE SAFARIS with our own safari boat.
- Modern and well-maintained RENTAL EQUIPMENT and absolutely PURE AIR.
- Underwater CAMERA and FLASHLIGHTS for rent.
- Oxygen, first aid and communications on the dive boats and in the dive
centre.
- Meditation Dive Experience-Get up very early, walk loosen up, listen and then submerge yourself in a weightless atmosphere. Be at one with nature while balancing your mind, body and spirit.
- Only available on request with our own "Dive Zen Master" Chris.
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INFORMATION ABOUT SANCTUARY FEES:
We are very fortunate to be able to dive in several marine sanctuaries in our area. For divers it means that we get to dive where others are not able. Also it means that we have to pay some fees of 3-10 US $ per day to dive in them. These fees go toward the preservation of these sanctuaries. Of the total fees collected at Apo island, 75% is returned directly to the island people and is put toward water, electricity, schooling and medical services.
There are some simple, straight forward rules we have to be aware of. Gloves, touching or destruction of corals, taking of fish or shells, disturbance of sea creatures are not permitted.
In some marine sanctuaries there is an additional charge of about 1 US$ / day for use of underwater camera.
These sanctuary fees are not included in the diving rates and packages. |
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| Dive Sites around Dumaguete |
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PURA VIDA HOUSEREEF
The house reef is located just in front of the resort, ideal for shore dives. The sandy bottom slopes down from one to twenty meters and there is also a 12m long steel boat wreck. There is a large variety of rare species on the reef. An ideal place for training, excellent fun for night-dives and macro photography. |
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MASAPLOD
A beautiful marine sanctuary which can be reached by our boat in ten minutes. You can see big fish schools, huge snappers and sweetlips, stingrays and different kind of
scorpion fishes. Usually you will also meet a huge turtle. |
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DAUIN
Just around the corner we have a spot for something special! Seahorses, ghost pipe fishes, frog fishes, different kind of lion and scorpion fishes and nudi branches are very common. And the place we call eel garden is also unique. Excellent place for training and night dives. |
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APO ISLAND
We can reach this highlight of the Visayas in half an hour by boat. Spectacular and
colourful drift dives with big fish schools, turtles, sea snakes and barracudas. Beautiful coral gardens with a large variety of coral fishes. We are sure that one of the ten first class dive spot will soon become your
favourite. |
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| CLOWN FISH CITY
The famous Clown Fish City is located in the Sanctuary of Apo Island . In the shallow part of this
dive site there are some coral blocks covered with sea anemones and hundreds of clown fishes. If you are lucky you will meet also Napoleon fishes and a school of jack fishes. |
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| These are only some of the most important
dive sites - there are many more very interesting dive
spots around Dumaguete. Come and see for yourself! |
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| Sightseeing around Dumaguete |
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- Only on Wednesday -the market in Malatapay.
Local inhabitants barter and trade large assortments of fish, fruits. vegetables and animals.
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- A 45 minute hike through a Jurassic jungle brings you to 120 ft CASARORO waterfall.
- The water is coolish but worth a dip.
- Watch for the monkeys and bats.
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- Visit the Twin lakes of Balinsasayo and Danao . Virgin forests abundant in fauna and flora .
- Golfing: There is a small course 30 min away in
Dumaguete and a professional course with spectacular views about 1 hr away.
- Rent a motorbike and explore the island.
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- Whale and Dolphin Watching in Bais. Experience the "entertainers of the ocean"
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- Tour Dumaguete, "the city of gentle people" Easy to get to and easy to find your way around . The home to Silliman University which houses the Philippines top Marine Biology institute.
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