Kenr
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I'm wavering back and forth. I have a trip planned to the phil in late April into June for almost 4 weeks. I start out in the San Jose, Mindoro area visiting friends and will catch a day dive out to Apo reef. After that I'm off to Anilao for 10 days, I'm with a group and we will do 36 dives. My delima is where do I go after. My girl friend will meet me in Manila and off we go somewhere. She is a new OW diver, only a half a dozen dives under her belt. She is still nervous so I don't want to start taking her out for 3 dives a day, everyday. I'm not sure I will be up for that myself after doing 40 dives over 10 dive days. Maybe just 6 or 10 leisurely dives over 7 days. With that in mind nightlife and other day activities will be important to us. She got her OW in Alona Beach. I wouldn't mind taking her back, but the beach isn't for walking or swimming and night life is so so. Last year we spent sometime at El Nido, I don't think I want to go back that soon. We have been to PG, great for diving but the beach isn't for swimming and the night life is a little too wild for a filipina. Mactan would be ok but we were there last year, too soon to repeat. Boracay is always an option. I know this group here isn't crazy about Boracay. We were there a year ago, we stayed up north by Diniwid so it was quiet at night. I thought the beaches were nice, clean and not too crowded (before the Xmas crowd). So far its a toss up between Alona/Dumaguette or Boracay wth a slight edge to the latter.
Where else am I missing?
Where else am I missing?
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