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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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Visit Bohol & Panglao Island, The Philippines

Bohol is famous for its 1,268 cone-shaped hills which turn from green to brown as they dry. Panglao has fine beaches and excellent diving, but is also home to the Tarsier monkey, one of the World's smallest primates.

Rare Tarsier Monkey, Bohol
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Bohol & Panglao Island

The Philippines

Immortalised on countless Filipino postcards, the Chocolate Hills of Bohol are an unforgettable sight.

In all there are 1,268 perfectly cone-shaped hills, green for most of the year but turning brown as they dry.

Tarsier monkey

An unusual resident is the Tarsier monkey, one of the most endangered and at 10cm in length certainly one of the smallest primates in the world. They can be seen in a couple of private reserves, or in their natural habitat on Panglao Island.

Beaches and diving

Panglao is also known for its fine beaches and excellent diving amongst black coral forests, shoals of hammerhead sharks and an occasional visiting dolphin.

Local festivals

The wet season runs from June to October and is enough to deter most travellers - it is best to visit from March to May, when festivals erupt in the small towns and villages.

The island can be reached by ferry from Cebu or a short flight from Manila.

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