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This article is about Quo Vadis Dive resort and Barefoot White Beach Resort in Moalboal

Quo Vadis Dive Resort

Quo Vadis is Latin for: Where are you going? If the Name of the Quo Vadis Resort was named because of the biblical question between Jesus and Saint Peter or from the Oscar nominated movie from 1951 we still not know.

Quo Vadis Resort in Panagsama - Moalboal is not that old but old enough for being a well-established and most popular dive resort in Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines. It all started 1991 with Ling Ling and her late husband Jürgen that opened a dive center - Visaya Divers. One cottage was added and later one more and so on. It wasn’t until 1995 that two friends from Germany visited and they decided to build Quo Vadis Resort together with Ling Ling and her family.

After a few years of absence in Quo Vadis Resort Ling Ling Rozgoni is now back as CEO and resort manager.

“This is where I grew up and it is here I belong” she says. “As a child I was swimming and picking shells right here and later sold them to tourists. The shells actually financed a part of my school education. Schooling for women wasn’t common practice when I was young and I used my savings to convince my family that I should study.”

After many years of work and perfection the resort now have 31 rooms, two restaurants and a 90 m2 swimming pool. The rooms varies from basic standard with ceiling fan to top of the line rooms such as Premier suite with a fantastic sea view and all amenities that is expected for a luxury suite. For more info click on: www.quovadisresort.com

Quo Vadis became a PADI dive resort in February 2012 and the dive center with two boats have been updates and have now nitrox, air bank, two Bauer mariner compressors and more than 100 tanks.

The diving in this area is known worldwide and National Geographic has recently been documenting the massive school of sardines around the famous Pescador Island. Around Pescador Island it is also common to see thresher sharks and other reef sharks.

Barefoot White Beach Resort

Barefoot Resort in White Beach is one of the most known Resorts in Moalboal. For more than 5 years Barefoot White Beach Resort have been the popular choice for many travelers. Known for its friendliness and it high room standard it makes both local tourist and travelers from abroad to feel welcome. Barefoot website www.barefoot.ph

On the local dialect, Visaya, locals call White Beach Basdaku ( big sands ) It was 1984 when a typhoon swept away all the sand from nearby Panagsama and dropped it off in the more sheltered White Beach approx three kilometers north west of Panagsama on the Moalboal peninsula. Luckily typhoons is very rare in the area and Moalboal have been protected from major storms since.

White Beach is known for its crystal clear water and protected reefs. Snorkeling and Scuba diving is one of the many popular activities. Turtles is a common and welcomed sight and even playing dolphins are being spotted from the beach and dive boats. Moalboal together with Pescador Island is ranked to be in the 20 most visited dives pots in the world

White Beach struggled for long with being without water and electricity. It wasn't until 2002 that White Beach finally got connected to the water system and electricity grid. This made the starting point for a few resorts and Barefoot White Beach resort was one of them.

YouTube is showing a lot of videos of White Beach and here is one of them that will get you started to view more material about White Beach and Barefoot Resort. Barefoot White Beach Resort on YouTube