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Above: View in Dakak

Not just another stretch of a powdery white sand beach. It has its share of beauty in common with the other amazing beaches in the Philippines, but it has its own beauty to unravel as well. Dakak Beach in Mindanao. The tremendous diving sites of garden coral reefs with perfect blue waters encircling this place.

It is a place of a tropical island ranging 15 hectares wide, instilled in green land and a 750 meter of a secluded white sand beach. Surrounded by mountains on the east side where the shore of Dakak is facing the Sulu Sea, thus being surrounded by other islands to avoid the typhoon belt making the beach of Dakak ideal for a vacation the whole year round.

Found in Zamboanga del Norte, Dakak Beach is a natural attraction, it is very popular in the place where you can see the beautifully shaped cove from afar.

From Manila, one would take a 2 hour flight to Dipolog.

Dakak has clean blue waters where you can dive to your hearts content, and the place is surrounded by flowers and coconut palms making a very rustic tropical island paradise.

The area of Coral Reefs that is famous in Dakak would be in the “Liuay Rock” where soft corals live and the indifferent nudibranchs and unusual kinds of starfish resides in.

The other places would be the caves 60 degrees deep and the with sandy bottoms that are occupied with water where soldier fish, sea plumes and puffer fishes live in. Black coral also reside in these caves.

Ceasar’s Reef

A small reef area with coral covers. The place is rich with big fishes that live in the place of marine life that usually comes in bright colors. Parrot fishes also live in this place. This place is advised for experienced divers only who can handle a couple of indifferent and big fishes in the undertaking.

Above: The Apo Island Beach Resort

You will see the scene where a rocky cliff is topped with woods. Of where the shore beside it is with white sand. A beach isolated in an island. A place of solitude, relief, relaxation, your place of peace and quiet. A paradise for divers who seek beautiful and fabulous coral reef or simply just for the nature lovers out there.

The island cove is surprisingly accessible in a narrow passage through the cliff on the beach. Though the resort has only eight cottages, this was made for the main purpose of privacy. You have the choice in having a cottage by the beach front where you can smell the sea first hand and hear the breeze resounding against the cottage’s bamboos or you can opt to be in a cottage at a higher level, where it can give you a beautiful view of the sea, where you can watch the sun go down and birds fly across the horizon. The Cottages are basically made of bamboo, nipa and wooden floors and furnished with wicker furniture.

Below: View in Apo Island Beach Resort

The largest cottage in the area is known as The Residence, where it is perched high amongst the cottages situated on a cliff. Its windows open directly to the trees and overlooking the sea. Furnished with an interior of native antique furniture. Wooden bench, tables and sideboard, armchair, with decorations of sculpted assorted objects.

Lounge chairs arranged across the shore in a row under a nipa parasol each. It is a place where you would probably keep secret from the waving commercial grounds of beach goers.

To reach the island one would need to travel by air and land. It’s a 75 minute flight from Manila to Dumaguete, and by land would take around 30 minutes from Dumaguete airport to Malatapay and finally to Apo Island.