Welcome to Hippocampus Beach and Dive Resort / Malapascua Island
The resort is located directly on Malapascua Island’s white Bounty Beach and the turquoise blue water of the Visayan Sea. It is surrounded by a colourful garden with orchids, flowering trees and many coconut palms.
The shallow water in front of the resort is gradually getting deeper, so swimming possibilities are excellent. A few meters off the beach a coral garden including blue staghorn corals can be found, which is home to numerous colourful reef fish and offers good snorkeling possibilities. An in house SeaQuest dive shop offers easy and convenient access to worldclass dive spots with daily sightings of manta rays and threshersharks as well as all the critter, southeast asia is famous for.
Hippocampus Beach Resort is named after the Latin genus name of the worldwide threatened seahorse family, out of which various species can be commonly found in the coral reefs around the island.
