Waterfalls Negros Oriental, Atmosphere Resorts, DauinExplore

The thundering waterfalls of Negros Oriental, Philippines

Casaroro Waterfalls Who doesn't love a waterfall? Negros Oriental, where Atmosphere is situated, is an island with a lot of volcanic history and you'll find on your arrival in Atmosphere that the sand is brown lava sand and that the resort is shadowed by a large mountain that once used to be a volcano. The perfect environment for thundering waterfalls, lakes and streams. Casaroro Waterfalls, the most photographed body of…
Atmosphere Resorts
10th May 2016
MarinelifeUnderwater Sightings

SMURFs on the Atmosphere House Reef

SMURFs are actually mesh baskets used to research baby fish From April until June, the Atmosphere Resort house reef will be used as a research site to study baby fish. This research project is run by marine biologists from Curtin University in Perth (Australia). To study baby fish, we are using “SMURFs”. SMURFs stand for “Standard Monitoring Unit for Recruitment of Fishes”. They are mesh-baskets filled with pebbles, sand or…
Atmosphere Resorts
1st May 2016
Dedicated underwater fathers - Pygmy seahorse, jawfish, cardinalfish and pipefish, all with eggs in Dauin, Dumaguete, Philippines. Photos by Daniel Geary at Atmosphere Resort.MarinelifeUnderwater Sightings

Dedicated Underwater Fathers

When it comes to reproduction in the ocean, things can get a little weird. There are animals that can change sexes (ghost pipefish) as well as animals that are both sexes (nudibranch), and even animals that can jettison an arm to grow a new animal (starfish). There are many fish that have role reversals where the fathers take care of the eggs until they hatch. The most well-known example is…
Daniel Geary
26th April 2016
The ladies of Lumago in Dumaguete Philippines showcase their own upcycled paper jewlerySoup kitchen

Lumago Designs is helping to bead the change

During your stay with Atmosphere you might choose to visit ASK - Atmosphere's Soup Kitchen. It is based in one of the most impoverished communities of Dumaguete City next to the dumpsite and is run by the mothers of the around 80 local school children it feeds every day. A separate social enterprise that sprung from Atmosphere’s partnership with the community, Lumago Designs works with these same mothers. Lumago Designs gives these…
Atmosphere Resorts
15th April 2016
Circuit Training and fitness at Atmosphere in the PhilippinesNews

Train harder! Circuit Training at Atmosphere

Fitness is becoming more popular at Atmosphere. Adding to our yoga and diving, we now offer circuit training at Atmosphere several times per week, with our certified Personal Trainer Joel Teves Silot. Classes are held on the treetop platform overlooking the sea and with a nice breeze to cool you off. Everyone is welcome – classes are good for all levels, and intensity will be based upon fitness and experience.…
Ulrika Kroon
30th March 2016