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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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  • Ariara Island
  • Banaue & Northern Luzon
  • Bohol & Panglao Island
  • Boracay
  • Cebu
  • Dumaguete
  • El Nido
  • Manila
  • Palawan
  • Siquijor
  • Southern Luzon
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    • Boracay
    • 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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    • Palawan
    • Palawan is another island group made up of more than 1,700 islands and islets. It has some of the best wreck diving in the world and there are countless good places to either swim or snorkel.
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Popular Places in The Philippines

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{837E27D5-0DF3-4F2E-A4C4-D79CE2078D30}Bohol & Panglao Island

Home to the Tarsier monkey, one of the World's smallest primates

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Famed for its stunning four-kilometre White Beach

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{A76488F8-65EB-4B26-ACB7-DA9A0BC49C52}Manila

Stroll through one of the best-preserved Spanish colonial city centres

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{939AD2B3-3314-4661-BAAC-E9D6476B5922}Palawan

It has some of the best wreck diving in the world

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