Reasons To Visit The Philippines
The Philippines is home to world class diving among dazzling marine life. There are coral gardens, caves, deeply plunging undersea walls and isolated coral seamounts offering wall diving, wreck diving and muck diving. Every form of underwater life can be seen including whale sharks, turtles, manta rays and dugongs.
Festivals in the Philippines are plentiful. Every town has a patron saint, and each of these has its own feast day and there are also bigger week long parties like Ati-Atihan in Kalibo. Easter is also a big event in this predominantly christian country.
With over 7,000 islands there are mile of coastline in the Philippines. Away from the popular beaches of Boracay and Cebu there are a range of quieter spots especially in the Southern Visayas and around Palawan.
There are more than 100 cultural minority groups in the Philippines, and around half of these have unique linguistic cultures. The most well known are the Ifugao, and their culture is alive and well around the rice terraces of Banaue.
Most of the Philippine islands feature volcanic mountains, several of which have been increasingly active since the 1980s. The most accessible are Mount Pinatubo which last erupted in 1991 and Taal volcano one crater of which erupted in 1977.
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The most luxurious resort on the island, Discovery Shores has thought of every luxury to make your stay as perfect as it possibly can be.
This resort is certainly suitable as part of a family trip. They also offer certain services and amenities for young guests including a recreation room, the Sandbox Kiddie Lounge which is supervised and a baby sitting service.
Famed for its stunning four-kilometre White Beach, Boracay is a popular destination for weekending visitors from Manila and has a wide choice of hotels, resorts, restaurants and bars.
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