Puerto Galera Dive Sites

"Puerto Galera is one of the popular diving destination here in the Philippines and also is known worldwide because of its world class diving and snorkeling. Puerto Galera is located on the northern shore of Mindoro Island just 130 kms South of Manila and 14 nautical miles from Batangas.


Puerto Galera Best SunsetPuerto Galera has numerous beautiful and marvelous dive sites to offer and these diving sites are very accessible. Snorkeling is usually good just offshore. The depth of the diving sites are from 5 meters to 40 meters and the water temperatur is between 26 to 29 degress centigrade. The currents of these diving sites are oftern brisk and unpredictable and this create a challenge to novice divers. Snorkeling is usually good just offshore.

Puerto Galera is rich in marine life and it has many to offer to the divers. Puerto Galera is also a divers paradise because you can see different exotic marine life species. Big fishes like White tip Sharks, Barracudas, Tunas, even Eagle Rays, Turtles can be seen on selected dive sites like the popular Canyons, Shark Caves, Boulders, especially so on a drift dive during big tide exchanges.

Not only that, you will also experience the presence of thriving fish life like batfish, angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses and butterfly fish. Aside from rarely seen exotic fishes like Spanish Dancer, harlequin ghost-pipefish and at least 5 different colors of camouflaged frogfish, fire gobies and blue-ribbon eels.

Puerto Galera has has so much to offer to marine biologists and underwater photographers because of the beautiful and enchanting varied species of soft corals, gorgonians, crinoids, colorful sponges and turnicates, crustaceans, shrimps and the most popular the "NUDRIBRANCHS".

Puerto Galera holds the reputation as the best diving area in the Philippines and Asia because of the great ecological complexity and the abundant of exotic marine life species that experts come here to study the ecostructure of micro-organsims, marine life, animals and plants.

How to get there


2 hour drive to Batangas pier. 2 hours by boat to Puerto Galera

Another Tourists Spot in the Philippines: Puerto Galera

Are you planning to visit Philippines? Are you making a search on where to go during vacation? Do love white beaches, fresh air, clean water? Or are you searching where to stay in the Philippines during vacation? That's not a problem folks. Because visiting Philippines is the right decision and you can assure that you are in the right track.

Philippines offers lot of tourist attractions and enjoyable spot for vacation. Here you can find and choose where to go and stay. The country offers world class tourist destinations, world class beaches and resorts, world class inns and hotels which will serve and comfort the tourists well.

As I have said Philippines offers world class beaches. And fortunately, Puerto Galera is of these. Puerto Galera is located in Northern part of Mindoro islands. It's about 130 kl from Manila and 14 NM from Batangas. Getting there is cheaper than going to Boracay especially for those who are from Manila.

Puerto Galera offers many sports such as, scuba-diving, swimming, snorkeling, boating, sailing, kayaking, surfing and fishing.

Getting to Puerto Galera from Manila you can get a bus to the Port of Batangas about 3-4 hours. From the Port of Batangas, the easiest way to puerto Galera is to take a "banca" ride.

"Another way to get to Puerto Gallera is to catch a bus leaving everyday at the City State Tower Hotel in Ermita, Manila (tel. # 0917 694 6918) the bus takes you to the Port of Batangas where a catamaran “Si-Kat” waits to ferry passengers to Puerto Gallera. There is also a bus leaving Royal Palm Hotel (tel 02/526 2566) in Ermita, Manila at 8 a.m."