Brotherdive 2019 - Part 2 - El Rio Y Mar Resort – Coron

Our review of our BrotherDive 2019 to the Philippines, part 2 the El Rio Y Mar Resort – Coron - Busuanga, Palawan

During the second part of our trip to the Philippines, we stayed in the El Rio Y Mar Resort. This quiet and luxury resort with a private beach is located on Coron Island.
 

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Brotherdive 2019 - Part 1 - Infinity Liveaboard (Tubbataha)

Our review of our BrotherDive 2019 to the Philippines onboard of the Infiniti.

During the first part of our trip to the Philippines, we stayed onboard of the Infiniti. This is a luxurious live aboard vessel that took us to the Tubbataha reefs. We really enjoyed our stay onboard, the ship and the crew are amazing!

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Brotherdive 2018 Nabucco Island – Maratua Atoll (Indonesia)

Our review of our BrotherDive on Nabucco Island.

Nabucco Island, a real piece of paradise located within the Maratua Atoll (Borneo - Indonesia)
The resort and the management are absolutely great! Actually we can’t find anything negative about the resort at all, this is the resort you want to reside during your diving holiday.

The dive operation is executed under the 'Extra Divers' flag.

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Brotherdive 2017 Raja Ampat – West - Papua (Indonesia)

Our review of our BrotherDive in Raja Ampat.
We stayed at the Kri Eco resort which is owned and exploited by the (also Dutch born) Max Ammer.
There are 2 resorts owned by Max on Kri Island; Kri Eco Resort and the more luxurious Sorido Bay resort. Both resorts have their own dive center (Papua Diving). Papua Diving was one of the projects Max started to bring much needed money to the local people by on boarding divers to Raja Ampat.

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In this review we discuss our BrotherDive in Playa del Carmen Mexico. Our accommodation was the Colibri Beach resort, located directly at the beach in Playa del Carmen.

We made all our dives here at the DiveMex diving center which is a small but professional dive center located in the center of Playa del Carmen.
DiveMex is owned by the German Dirk Zimmermann and his Italien partner Anna Paola Colombo. They run the divecenter since 2006.

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Palau, Micronesia our 5th BrotherDive adventure.
During our visit to Palau we stayed in the luxurious Palau Royal resort.

We actually had 2 diving centers on Palau, the first one was Sam’s tours and only for 1 day because we wanted to join them during the ‘unique Snapper Spawning Expedition’ with Paul Collins. The second (and main) dive center was Fish ‘n Fins. This dive center is owned and managed by Tova and Navot Bornovski. Established in 1972, they are the true pioneers of dive operation in Palau.

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In this review we will only discuss the diving center because we both stayed in different resorts.

We were guests at the‘Tauchen unter Freunden’ diving center which is German for ‘Diving among friends'.
This diving center is managed and owned by the German Ute Renung, she started the divecenter in 1997 with a former friend. This dive center is not new to us, especially not for Edwin, he’s been diving and guiding here for many years.

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Our trip to Malaysia was split up in two parts, the first week we stayed at the Borneo Divers resort on Mabul Island. The resort has around 30 very nice tropical themed chalets.

This basic but very good resort is also the home base of the Borneo Divers dive center, since 1983 one of the pioneers in diving in the ‘Sipadan’ area..

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The second week of our trip to Malaysia we visited the Kapalai Resort. This very luxurious resort is built on the shallow sandbanks of the Ligitan Reefs. This a one of the most beautiful locations we ever visited.

The dive center is owned by the resort and is a professional PADI dive center.

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The second part of our North Sulawesi trip we stayed at the Bastianos Resort on Lembeh.
Bastianos Lembeh Diving Resort was opened in November 2006 and is located on the west coast of Lembeh Island.
We stayed in a ‘standard room’ overlooking the strait directly from our room and balcony.

The resorts and with its own (PADI) dive center were by that time very well managed by a German manager.

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Our trip to North Sulawesi was split in two parts, the first part we stayed at the Bastianos Resort on Bunaken. Our accommodation was a so called ‘basic room’ directly on the beach with a great view on ‘Manado Tua’.

The resort owned dive center was by then, operated by a German couple and managed quite well.

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