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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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Excursions in The Philippines: Bohol Interior Tour

Rare Tarsier Monkey found on the island of Bohol

Bohol Interior Tour

Bohol & Panglao Island, The Philippines

After breakfast you will be collected from your hotel and head inland to the stone Church of Baclayon.

This is the oldest church in the Philippines and the original structure dates back to 1595, however much of the facade was built in the 19th Century by the Augustinian Recollects. Here you can visit the ecclesiastical museum if you are interested in religious icons, artefacts and vestments including an impressive collection of Spanish colonial statues of Saints. From here you will drive to the Tarsier Visitors Sanctuary near Corella. (Tuesday - Saturday only). The Tarsier is often referred to as the world's smallest monkey however is actually a prosimian, which is more closely related to lemurs, lorises and bushbabies. They are thought to have evolved 45 million years ago, however are now under severe threat of extinction due to their habitat being destroyed through logging and other development.

The centre is operated by the Philippine based Tarsier Foundation who are dedicated to protecting what is left of the native Tarsier population. A guide will help you try and find these quiet nocturnal creatures tucked away in a forested corner of the centre. Rather than taking to the road again, you will enjoy a leisurely five kilometre walk through paddy fields and coconut groves along the Tarsier Trail that leads to the town of Loboc. Here you can catch a glimpse of the green Loboc River as well as visit the San Pedro Church, built by missionaries in the 18th century.

In Loboc you will break for lunch at a small local eatery before taking to the road to Bilar. Here you will visit a Butterfly Farm that is doing excellent work at breeding many local species of beautiful butterflies. All proceeds are ploughed back into this worthwhile local project and will give you a great chance of capturing great photographs. The day will end with a visit to the iconic sight of Bohol, the Chocolate Hills. There are 1268 conical limestone hills stretched out across a plain whose presence and structure is still not totally explainable by science or mythology. Being covered in grass that turns brown in the dry season, they were christened by an American who likened them to a whole load Hershey's Chocolate Drops having been scattered across the countryside.

Late in the afternoon you will be taken back to your hotel.

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