Intramuros
The walled Spanish city of 1571, with Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church and a walk along the ramparts. The district covers 0.67 square kilometres and is enclosed on every side by its fortifications. It was the seat of the Spanish …
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Mount Pulag
The highest peak in Luzon at 2,926 metres, famous for a sea of clouds at dawn above the dwarf bamboo. Permits and a guide are required. It is the third highest mountain in the country and the second most prominent, …
Hanging coffins of Echo Valley
Coffins fixed to the cliff face, an Igorot burial practice still used occasionally. Visited with a local guide. People have been buried this way around Sagada for more than 2,000 years. The old carve their own coffin out of a …
Batad Rice Terraces
An amphitheatre of stone-walled terraces, part of the UNESCO listing, reached by a hike from the saddle. Batad and Bangaan are the two clusters in Banaue that the World Heritage inscription covers. People here call the Ifugao terraces the Eighth …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Puerto Princesa guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Basco guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Sabtang guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Quezon Memorial Circle
The main park of the city, laid out inside the large roundabout of Elliptical Road. At its centre is a mausoleum 66 metres tall that holds the remains of Manuel L. Quezon, the second president of the Philippines, and of …
Burnham Park
The city's central park: a boating lagoon, a bike loop and a skating rink, laid out by Daniel Burnham in the American period. Burnham was the American architect who drew the city plan for Baguio, and the park, officially the …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Sagada guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Banaue Rice Terraces viewpoints
Four roadside decks above the town looking over the terraces, with Ifugao elders in traditional dress. The fields below were cut into the mountains by the ancestors of the Igorot people, by hand and with little equipment, about 1,500 metres …
Big Lagoon
A shallow turquoise channel walled by cliffs, paddled by kayak on Tour A. It sits in the Bacuit archipelago, which the town is the entry point for. El Nido is a managed resource protected area, known for its limestone cliffs, …
Calle Crisologo
The cobbled street of ancestral houses, closed to cars, best walked early in the morning or after dark. It runs through the Mestizo District and is the best known part of the old town: sett paving, and houses with brick …
Tubbataha Reef
Two coral atolls and a smaller reef in the middle of the Sulu Sea, 150 kilometres southeast of Puerto Princesa. The park covers 97,030 hectares, and UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage Site in 1993. One wall of coral …
Panagbenga Festival
The 30th Panagbenga, under the theme Blooming Without End. The grand street dance parade ran on 28 February and the grand float parade down Session Road on 1 March. Fireworks closed the festival on 8 March.
Mayon Volcano
The most active volcano in the country, a stratovolcano with a symmetric cone. Philippine mythology holds it sacred. The volcano and the land around it became the first national park in the nation on July 20, 1938, and were reclassified …
Kayangan Lake
Often called the cleanest lake in the country, reached by a short climb over a ridge from the boat. The water is brackish, part fresh and part salt, and clear enough to show the rock formations and the fish from …
Rizal Park
The park around the monument to José Rizal, where he was executed in 1896. It covers 58 hectares in Ermita, next to Intramuros and facing the eastern shore of Manila Bay. Rizal's remains lie in the stone base of the …
Cagsawa Ruins
The bell tower left standing after the 1814 eruption buried the church, and the classic view of Mayon behind it. The Franciscans built the first church here in 1587, in the town of Cagsawa. Dutch pirates burned it in 1636, …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Vigan guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Small Lagoon
Reached through a gap in the rock, quieter and best early before the boats arrive.
Taal Volcano
A large caldera filled by Taal Lake, and the second most active volcano in the country, with 39 confirmed historical eruptions. The eruptions centre on Volcano Island, near the middle of the lake. The caldera itself formed between about 670,000 …
Twin Lagoon
Two lagoons joined by a gap under the rock, where cold fresh water meets warm salt water.
Banaue in 3 days
₱100A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Banaue guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Hundred Islands National Park
A group of islands in Lingayen Gulf off the coast of Barangay Lucap: 124 of them at low tide, and 123 when the tide is in. It was the first national park declared in the country and it covers 16.76 …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Baguio guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Feast of the Black Nazarene
The Traslacion carried the Black Nazarene from Intramuros to Quiapo Church. 9.6 million people joined, and the procession took 30 hours and 50 minutes, the longest on record.
Mayon Planetarium and Science Park
A planetarium and geology museum in barangay Buang, 854 metres above sea level at the foot of Mayon and inside the volcano's permanent danger zone of 6 kilometres. The single-storey building holds a library, a virtual room, a mini-museum and …
Binondo
The oldest Chinatown in the world, best walked at lunchtime for dumplings, noodles and hopia. The Spaniards laid it out in 1594 across the Pasig River from Intramuros, as a settlement for Catholic Chinese that the colonial government could keep …
Moriones Festival
A Holy Week parade of people dressed as Moryons, known locally as the Moryonan, held from March to April. They walk the main road that links Santa Cruz, Gasan, Boac and Mogpog, the four towns that keep it. In the evening Boac and Santa Cruz act out the …
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