A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Bacolod guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
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White Beach
About 7 km north of Panagsama you'll find White Beach or Basdako, meaning 'Big Sand', a nice white sandy beach lined with a beautiful coral reef about 30 m out. Pack your mask and snorkel. White Beach is a popular spot …
Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral
A church built in 1565 by the first Spanish missionaries in Cebu, seat of an Archbishop who has subordinate Bishops in many cities of the Visayas. It was mostly destroyed during World War II and had been rebuilt a bit …
San Sebastian Cathedral
Bacolod’s main Catholic church, begun in the late 19th century and completed in 1894. Built of coral stone and later covered with cement, it is one of the city’s key landmarks. The cathedral is also known for its Centennial Bells …
A 2-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Tagbilaran 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 Iloilo City guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the …
Naval Cathedral
The seat of the Diocese of Naval, and a church of the 20th century rather than the Spanish period. Its full name is Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral. The parish began in 1860 under the name Bagasumbul. …
Tagbilaran Cathedral
The seat of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, which covers the western half of Bohol. Jesuit missionaries founded the parish in 1595, one of six in Bohol, and the Augustinian Recollects took it over in 1768. Fire destroyed the first church …
St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral
The seat of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, it is one of the six original churches of Bohol established by the Jesuits in 1595. The current church structure however dates back to the mid-1800s, after the original church burned down.
Kalibo Cathedral
The seat of the Diocese of Kalibo, in the downtown and close to the Aklan River, and the oldest place of worship in the province. It carries two other names: the Cathedral Parish of Saint John the Baptist, and the …
Maasin Cathedral
A baroque Catholic church and the seat of the Diocese of Maasin. It holds a 200-year-old statue of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Maasin, called the Patrona, and its parish is one of the oldest in the country. Jesuit …
Sandugo Festival
A July celebration of the blood compact between Datu Sikatuna and Miguel López de Legazpi in 1565. The two leaders cut their chests, mixed the blood with wine and drank it, and that sealed the friendship between the Spaniards and the Boholanos. Juan Luna painted the scene. The …
A 2-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Moalboal guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
San Carlos Cathedral
A 20th-century Catholic cathedral in the Eclectic style, dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo. It became the seat of the Diocese of San Carlos in 1987, which covers northeastern Negros Occidental and northern Negros Oriental.
National Museum of the Philippines, Bohol Branch
It was the Escuela La Niña, and then becsme the Provincial Library of Bohol. The museum was opened in July 2008 after moving from the Carlos P. Garcia House. The museum has exhibits on the wildlife, traditions and culture of …
Kabankalan Cathedral
The Catholic shrine and parish of Señor Santo Niño, in the city proper. It is the proto-cathedral of the Diocese of Kabankalan, and people commonly call it the Santo Niño Parish-Shrine.
Buglasan Festival
A week of parades and town booths, held in Dumaguete every October. Each town and city in Negros Oriental keeps a booth with its own products and its own sights, and the province calls the week its festival of festivals. A float parade and a street dancing competition …
Iloilo Paraw Regatta
The 53rd regatta. Paraws, the outrigger sailboats of the Visayas, race off Villa Beach: the slalom on 26 February and the main sail on 1 March.
Borongan Cathedral
The cathedral of Borongan, formally the Cathedral Parish of the Nativity of Our Lady, and the seat of the diocese. The round bell tower is the only part of the old church that is left. Father Juan Navarette added it …
Panglao beaches
Alona and the quieter coves, and the dive sites off Balicasag with turtles and a wall. Alona Beach runs for about 1 kilometre at the south-west tip of Panglao, with white sand, rocky cliffs and a line of shops and …
Love Boracay
The island's week of beach sport and music, the successor to LaBoracay. Clean-ups and sustainability run beside the races, the beach games and the sunset sets.
Panaon Island
An island about 30 kilometres long at the south end of Leyte, linked to the main island by the Wawa Bridge. Four towns share it: Liloan, San Francisco, Pintuyan and San Ricardo. Liloan is the largest, and people live from …
Capul Church
A fortress church on Capul Island, also called Fuerza de Capul. The Jesuits set it up as a mission station in 1596 under the name of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and the National Museum of the Philippines has declared it …
Kalibo Mangrove (Bakhawan) Ecotourism Park
One of the most successful mangrove reforestation projects in the country.
Santo Tomas de Villanueva Parish Church
A Roman Catholic parish church in Danao City, Santo Tomas de Villanueva Parish Church serves the city's Catholic community. Danao's history records a Roman Catholic church completed in 1847, built along with the presidencia, the convento and streets such as …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's San Jose de Buenavista guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. …
A 3-day plan built from the See, Do and Eat listings in Wikivoyage's Guiuan guide. The stops are in an order that keeps each day close together. Check the hours …
Taklong Island
An island off the south coast of Guimaras, the main one in the Taklong and Tandog Group of Islands Natural Park. President Corazon Aquino declared the island and the water around it a national marine reserve on 8 February 1990, …
Capitol Park and Lagoon
A lagoon with a park around it, in the middle of the city. Matching sculptures stand at the two ends of the water: a woman beside a water buffalo at the north end, and a man pulling another water buffalo …
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