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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: Carcar & Argao

The tour takes you down to Carcar, an old Spanish town with colonial style houses and a church that dates back to the 18th century.

Butterfly Farm, Puerto Princesa, Palawan

Carcar & Argao

Cebu, The Philippines
  • Culture & History

The tour takes you down to Carcar, an old Spanish town with colonial style houses and a church that dates back to the 18th century. Stop by a busy flea market and see how crunchy pork cracklings called ‘chicharon’ and local rice crispies called ‘ampao’ are being prepared, then visit cottage industry stalls and stores that are involved in the production of shoes, house and farm implements.

En route back to your hotel, drop by Jumalon’s Butterfly Sanctuary and view the extensive collection of paintings and lepido-mosaics by artist, naturalist and amateur lepidopterist, Julian N. Jumalon.

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