Sabang beach - Puerto Galera - mainland Mindoro. Heading called cultural encounters, more seediest encounters of the male kind. awful place. nothing to discuss. sex tourism at its worst avoid at all costs....

Blimey, Manila is as dodge as the guidebooks hint. Or as dodgy as you wanna make it. Most gentrified, just another Asian supercity with malls cinemas etc. But theres a nasty undercurrent if you get off the main streets. as usual. I hear helipcopters from my grotty room in a crap guesthouse...im staying in a dorm here.....it all sounds very Vietnam, its really humid and the copters are echoing off the buildings around the city, so im off to have a look. Turn...

Helichopters Directions from a man with a shotgun Dirty, smelly seedy Off to puerto Valera

So whats wreck diving all about then? Well. Exhilarating, frightening, awesome, dangerous etcetc. Firstly diving in the Philippines seems to be much more exciting because they dont appear to take any notice whatsoever about safety, even though they are safe. Our dive shop is very well respected in diving these wrecks and so i threw caution to the wind and went with it. Boats were great, blah so what about the diving? Each wreck is at an average of about 25-...

So whats wreck diving all about then? Well. Exhilarating, frightening, awesome, dangerous etcetc. Firstly diving in the Philippines seems to be much more exciting because they dont appear to take any notice whatsoever about safety, even though they are safe. Our dive shop is very well respected in diving these wrecks and so i threw caution to the wind and went with it. Boats were great, blah so what about the diving? Each wreck is at an average of about 25-...