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Holy Rosary Minor Seminary Museum
If you can’t make the Peñafranica festival, this little museum may be the next best thing. Located in the city-dominating St John Cathedral, the exhibits here consist of pictures and glass displays of religious pageantry and some entertaining dioramas of the main procession.
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Tamaraw Falls
This waterfall drops from a forested ravine into man-made splash pools off the main Puerto Galera–Calapan road, 13km out of town. It gets busy at weekends, but otherwise you’ll be just about the only person here. Jeepneys headed for Calapan will drop you here (P25, 30 minutes).
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Ifugao Museum
Across the lawn from the War Memorial Shrine is the Ifugao Museum, which houses an absorbing collection of Ifugao artefacts, from household utensils and headhunting bolos (machetes) to intricately carved pakko (wooden spoons). The centrepiece is a huddle of bulol (rice guardians).
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President Gloria Macapagal
Directly in front of Timoga Springs, along the main highway, this is only really interesting to political buffs. Perhaps most curious are the family photos of Macapagal-Arroyo from child to sultry adult (she’s lying down on her side wearing a slinky gown in one large painting).
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Tuwasan Falls
This previously unspoiled and beautiful spot has been disfigured by the construction of a paved road up and over the falls (part of a future all-asphalt cross-island road), which once thundered below into a canyon of boulders. There’s a cold-water pool in Bura on the way here.
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Open
The long-running Concert at the Park takes place at the open-air auditorium; it’s free and starts at around 5.30pm on Sundays. At dawn, youll find various groups gathered to practise t’ai chi or the local martial art of arnis, or arnis de mano, a pre-Hispanic style of stick-fightin
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Negros Museum
Houses an eclectic collection, from a room dedicated to the sugar industry to one containing toys from around the world. Dont miss the fake cannons used to scare the Spanish, including coconut cannonballs. It also has a small art gallery, a gift shop and a popular outdoor cafe.
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Silliman University Anthropology Museum
Set in an unmissable American stick building salvaged from a New York theater, this very nice anthropology/ethnobotany collection on the university campus includes artefacts from the indigenous Negritos and the Islamic period, including a massive ceremonial kris (sword) 10ft long.
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Sampao Rice Terraces
About 4km north of Naval is the turnoff to the Sampao rice terraces. While they can’t compare in scale to the Banaue terraces, they’re very photogenic with the peaks of Biliran as a backdrop. The villages of Iyusan and Salangi also have rice terraces; each are about 5km off the mai
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Olang Art Park
This retreat for Filipino artists is set over 3 hectares. Theres usually a resident artist or two hanging about, plus a performing arts stage, a modest collection of modern art, a gallery of antiques and memorabilia, and a wall of nude photos by the late American lensman Marlon Des
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Museum of the Philippines Political History
Just next to the Kalaw Ave entry to Rizal Park, this small museum gives a punchy overview of the Philippines socio-political history from pre-Hispanic, occupation under the Americans and Japanese, to People Power under the Marcos regime. Check out the former presidents cars parked
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Naga City Museum
This small museum, located on the 3rd floor of the campus of the University of Nueva Caceras, is ethnographic in focus, filled with crafts, tools and other artefacts of pre-colonial Bicol and covering the history of the Philippines as a whole. Get the enthusiastic curator to show y
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Kabigan Falls
Kabigan Falls, located in the interior jungle, is 120m of crashing white water and a cool, clear pool to swim in, accessible via group tours by all hotels or private tricyle hire (around P700 return). Its a 30-minute walk from the highway turn-off if you dont want to be driven all
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Embarcadero
This glitzy waterfront complex just east of Legazpi City, connected by electronic jeepneys to public transport stops, consists of a huge mall, palm-tree-lined seafront walk, a Skywalk for Mt Mayon admirers and a bungee trampoline, a zipline and a go-karting track for more active vi
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Arquis Viewing Deck
On the road out of San Francisco town towards San Isidro, take the first right-hand turn up a dirt track to the Arquis Viewing Deck at the summit of a large hill. From here you can take in Lake Danao, Leyte and Cebu all at once. There is often a telescope set up to give you a close
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Nagtabon Beach
This beach, on the northern side of the isthmus, has several hundred metres of white sand and shallow water good for swimming. Jeepneys from San Jose terminal (they leave around noon) arent a convenient option so best to go by motorbike or rental car or van. The road is rough once
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Centrop
Opposite the hospital is this small zoo and research centre housing 16 species of indigenous mammals, reptiles and birds, including the critically endangered Negros bleeding-heart pigeon, Philippine spotted deer and the Visayan warty pig. Donations are appreciated, and needed, as c
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Balay Negrense Museum
Also known as the Victor Gaston Ancestral Home (1898), this hardwood home has the most photogenic exterior of any house in Silay. The house has been painstakingly restored and furnished with period pieces donated by locals. The bevelled-glass windows and Chinese carved lattice work
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Palawan Wildlife Rescue & Conservation Center
This wildlife reserve is a complex of concrete buildings and outdoor pens that house hundreds of crocs, from newly hatched to scary behemoths. Guided tours leave every 30 minutes. Towards the back, in a densely forested area, other animals and birds eke out an existence in neglecte
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Mt Bandila
Siquijors highest peak, Mt Bandila-an (557m), is near Cantabon. Concrete steps lead 10 minutes up to the peak from two clearly marked points on the road between Bandila-an Nature Centre and Bandila-an Mountain View Park. Theres a viewing platform at the peak from where the whole of
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