Malapascua Island
Malapascua Island
The small island of Malapascua is located about seven kilometers north-east of Cebu and about 25 kilometers west of Leyte, home to a traditional fishing community of around 3500 people. Malapascua Island is surrounded by white sandy beaches, broken up by small rocky outcrops. The island has a handful of resorts and a couple of dive operators and tourism is still new in this paradise. Malapascua Islandis also known as Logon Island, named after Barangay Logon, the main village in the southern part of the island.
Paradise Explored
Malapascua Island is just over 2.5 kilometers long and about one kilometer wide. It takes about 3 hours walk around the island. You will meet friendly fishing villages and lonely, idyllically situated coves. Hospitality of locals are overwhelming, nature of locals are being friendly to all island explorers . The island is also suitable for families and young children. This small paradise is now being compared to Boracay beauty, and because of its size, it is now commonly termed as “Little Boracay”.
A fantastic view can be seen from the lighthouse northwest of the island near Guimbitayan.
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Malapascua is a peaceful heaven from the stress of everyday life! The diving is fantastic, and the locals are the friendliest kindest people in the world. I’m however biased, as I live here, haha! You may want to see my website gotomalapascua.com is you are planning on coming to visit Malapascua – here you can read reviews of the different resorts, find out who to dive with, inform yoursef about do’s and don’ts etc.