Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
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- Best time to go
- November–March
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A sheer coral wall drops 100 m into the blue at Tubbataha, the reef park in the middle of the Sulu Sea. Covering 96,828 hectares around the North and South Atolls and Jessie Beazley Reef, it packs an extraordinary density of marine species; seabirds and turtles nest on its islets, and divers rate the walls among the world's finest. Reachable only by liveaboard boat in season, Tubbataha was inscribed by UNESCO in 1993.
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