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DIVE SITE AROUND SIQUIJOR

HOUSEREEF - It is just in front of the Dive Center. It gently slopes from 1 to 2 meters with seagrass and coral blocks then at 12 meters it has a steeper slope with white sand to 35 meters to a large coral block. There you will see lionfish, blue spotted rays, cuttle fish maybe a few harlekin ghost pipefish. An excellent location for scuba diving and open water training in sandy areas.

SANCTUARY - It is just to the east side of the dive center. There, its like large volcanic rock fingers reaching out from the shore. You always want to know what is around the next corner. There you can see a large school of small barracuda, lionfish, nudi branches of many colors, razor fish, clown fish, groupers, and sometimes a sea turtle. All this from 12m to 24m.

LALA-O, SUNKEN ISLAND - This is not even on the charts but you will see lots of fish there. It's 10 min. west of the dive center and it starts at 11 meters and slopes seaward to 16 meters. The depth is beyond 40 meters but if planned well you can make two spirals around it and see everything there. You can see big schools unicorn fish, hunting tunas in the middle of clouds of anchovies, sometimes large barracudas, rays, sea snakes and turtles.

PALITON CAVE - The wall starts at 7 meters and drops down to 35 meters were you will find a cave. Sometimes you will see groupers and copper sweepers there. Along the wall there are eels, nudi branches, lion fish, sea snakes and scorpion fish. Sometimes at the top of the wall you may see large barracudas.

PALITON WALL - On the far west end of Paliton is a spectacular wall of nudi branches, flatworms, eels, scorpion fish, lionfish and large fan corals. You can dive between 20 to 30 meters here and see everything above and below you. Quite often you can find ribbon eels.

SIGHTSEEING ON SIQUIJOR

Visit the old St. Isidore Parish Church built 1884 in Lazi. Have a shower under the Po-ol Waterfall close to Lazi. Go caving in the impressive dripstone cave in Cantabon. Go shopping at the market of Siquijor Siquijor.