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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 Boracay, The Philippines

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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Boracay

The Philippines

Reached from Caticlan on the northern tip of Panay, Boracay is the best-known island in the Philippines

Famed for its stunning four-kilometre White Beach, it is a popular destination for weekending visitors from Manila and has a wide choice of hotels, resorts, restaurants and bars.

Activities

Activities on offer include a Mandala spa and a golf course and there are countless diving and snorkelling opportunities, but it is also easy to spend your time here doing nothing very much.

Neighbouring islands

If you fancy a change of scene, you can take a boat across to one of the neighbouring islands, such as Romblon, Carabao or Tablas.

There are also some simple accommodation options on these islands if you really want to escape the crowds for a night or two.

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