Bucas Grande
Long beaches of fine sand, wide mangrove forest and deep water full of sea life, on a 128 square kilometre island next to Siargao and on the northern side of the province. The island forms the municipality of Socorro, the …
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Long beaches of fine sand, wide mangrove forest and deep water full of sea life, on a 128 square kilometre island next to Siargao and on the northern side of the province. The island forms the municipality of Socorro, the …
The oldest mosque in the Philippines, by local lore: people date the first mosque on this ground to 1380, built in the indigenous sacred Moro pagoda style. Makhdum Karim, an Arab trader and missionary, established it. The building standing now …
A bahay na bato about 200 years old, in Población, Balingasag. Carved wooden figures hold up the overhang of the second floor. They are called otí-ot in Visayan and look like the Greek Atlas or the caryatids. There are three …
A cemetery under the sea off Catarman, which went down when Mount Vulcan erupted on 1 May 1871. The graves belonged to the old settlement of Bonbon. A white concrete cross, put up by the provincial government in 1982, marks …
A vertical rock wall that climbers sleep on, the centrepiece of the Kiokong Tourism Park. It was the site of the first vertical bivouac in the Philippines. With a local outfitter, you climb the face by Single Rope Technique to …
A white water tubing run, with rappelling at some of the steep falls below Mount Hilong-Hilong. People in the city set up the trips themselves. Cabadbaran has a lot of fresh water and is known for it, and cheap inland …