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The Philippines

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Reasons To
Visit The Philippines

  • Diving

    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.

    Diving

  • Fiestas

    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.

    Fiestas

  • Secluded beaches

    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.

    Secluded beaches

  • Tribal Villages

    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.

    Tribal Villages

  • Volcanoes

    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.

    Volcanoes

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Accommodation in The Philippines: Pulchra

Located 43 kilometres south of Cebu airport, Pulchra has 15 comfortable pool lagoon suites and seven luxurious garden pool villas. The resort also has a good spa.

Activities, Sports & Relaxation

The luxurious spa and gym offer a range of pampering treatments and up to date equipment as well as tai-chi and yoga classes.

The resort also has an onsite dive centre and can arrange diving, snorkelling and island hopping trips along the Cebu coastline or across the water to the neighbouring island of Bohol. Both offer some of the Philippines' best dive sites and the marine life is spectacular.

Tours of nearby Carcar can also be arranged to experience a traditional Filipino rural town. It exhibits a traditional market place, old churches, Spanish architecture and the local townsfolk are equipped with talents such as leather belt and shoe making, basket weaving and cooking local delicacies and brewing coconut wine which can be tasted.

There is also the chance to ride a tricycle, the more common method of transport for the locals, or even a carabao (native water buffalo) and cart!

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