Our history
Malapascua is not the perfect island: it's not the atoll you can find on a postcard, where doesn't exist the human work or where it was screened from sight; where you can live your “tropical dream” without becoming aware that, to be so beautiful and perfect, this must be a plastic island, where usually the habits of local people are hidden or modified to avoid troubles to the turist that, dropped the stress of his daily nature, needs to believe the existence of this perfection.
No, Malapascua is a true island, where the relationship between who decide to spend here his holidays, or to have a stop over, and the people that was born and live here is an integral part of the stay: the villages welcome turists with the smiles of many children, between flowers that adorn the houses, but also with the smell of dried fish, the noises until late night of the popular fiestas, the night song of the too many roosters that are kept for fights.
Many people arrive in Malapascua attracted by the fantastic scuba dives that allow to meet thresher sharks and manta rays in the “Monad” sanctuary or Mandarin fishery at lighthouse site at sunset and so on; some tourists want only to relax on the white beaches, someone, on the other hand, fall in love with this place and decide to spend here the most remaining part of his life.
About my wife and me, Malapascua was the island where we went to greet two dear friends who opened here an italian restaurant: our good feeling was immediate and after few days spent on Malapascua our aim to come back here was the only reason to stand our terrific rate of work, the free time not very enjoyed due to the great strain built up and the freezing cold wet winter in our italian town Bologna.
Than, at last, the big leap: “We drop everything and we change our life!”.
This is the history of “Tepanee Beach Resort”, the story of our lifelong ambition, of our immense passion for the sea, but also for a country, Philippines, where we travel a lot and where we met remarkable people who, with huge simpleness and always smiling, was able to let us feeling home at anytime.
Andrea