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Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary
One of the first places Cebu residents will take visiting relatives is the Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary , west of the downtown area. It’s hardly a place you’d expect butterflies to hang around, but hang around they do – from branches and leaves all over the garden of Julian Jumalon’
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Hundred Islands National Park
This small national park off the coast of Alaminos, 35km southeast of Bolinao, actually consists of 123 separate islets (some are just large rocks). Over the centuries the tides have eaten away at the bases of some of these limestone islands, giving them a distinctive mushroomlike
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Mt Guiting
This 15,200-hectare natural park (pronounced gee-TING gee-TING) is a biological treasure, home to an estimated 700 plant species, 130 bird species and a few rare mammals, including the small, nocturnal tube-nosed fruit bat; many of these are endemic. However, there is hardly any in
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Cebu Provincial Detention & Rehabilitation Center
This is where you can catch the inmate dance performances that became an internet sensation on YouTube several years back with a performance to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. The performance was the brainchild of chief warden Byron Garcia, whose love of ‘80s pop inspired him to groo
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Lake Barracuda
This island, only a 20-minute bangka ride from Coron town, has an imposing, mysterious skyline that wouldn’t be out of place in a King Kong film. Flying over Coron, you see that what lies inland, on the other side of the fortresslike jungle-clad rocky escarpments, is only more inac
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Lumiang Burial Cave
Lumiang Burial Cave is a 10- to 15-minute walk south of the main village, towards Ambasing, and its well-signposted along the left-hand fork in the road. Steep steps lead down to an enormous, lichen-furred cave where over 100 coffins are stacked in the entrance, the oldest believed
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Casa Gorordo Museum
Downtown, in a quieter residential area, Casa Gorordo Museum was originally a private home built in the 1850s and purchased by the Gorordos, one of Cebu’s leading families. The lower part of the house has walls of Mactan coral stone and the stunning upper-storey living quarters are
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Tam
Nine traditional Ifugao homes and two Kalinga huts were taken apart then reassembled on the side of a hill at the artist colony Tam-Awan Village. Spending the night in one of these huts (single/double P500/1000) is a rare treat. You can participate in art workshops, learn dream-cat
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Cagsawa Ruins
About 8km northwest of Legazpi, the remains (basically the belfry and tops of walls) of the sunken Cagsawa Church look out over a wiry plain of dusty grass at the sleek curves of Mt Mayon. Twelve hundred people who took refuge here during Mayon’s violent eruption of 1814 were burie
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Julia Campbell Agroforest Memorial Park
In the Pula barangay of Asipulo town, the 48-hectare organic coffee farm, Bantai Civet Coffee, is a WWOOF (www.wwoof.com.ph) project that specialises in a rare and expensive type of coffee derived from the excrement of the coffee-bean-eating civet. The farm is part of the Julia Cam
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Philippine Eagle Center
To view one of the largest eagles in the world (in terms of wing span), head to the Philippine Eagle Research & Nature Center , which is dedicated to conserving these endangered birds. Around 35 Philippine eagles (also known as monkey-eating eagles) are here, 20 of which were b
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Camp John Hay
A Japanese internment camp for Allied prisoners of war, and then a US military rest-and-recreation facility, 246-hectare Camp John Hay has been reinvented as a mountain resort with restaurants, hotels, shops, a fantastic golf course and a handful of scattered sights sprinkled amid
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Museo Sugbo
This terrific museum comprises several galleries in an sturdy old coral-stone building that was Cebus provincial jail from 1870 to 2004. Most interesting are the Spanish-era and American-era galleries. The latter contains an interesting collection of letters and memorabilia from Th
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Marcos Mausoleum
The embalmed body of Ferdinand Marcos (1917–89) is laid out on a mattress and lit by floodlights in an otherwise dark sepulchre at the Marcos Museum & Mausoleum. Full creepiness is achieved by eerie choral music played on a continuous loop. The mausoleum is located in Batac, a
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Coconut Palace
Of all of Imelda’s wacky schemes, this one may be the wackiest. Hearing that Pope John Paul II was planning a visit to his flock in the Philippines, Imelda ordered that a grand palace be built. Huge teams of craftsmen laboured overtime to complete this edifice in time for the ponti
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Mactan Shrine
Mactan is the improbable site of one of the defining moments in the Philippines’ history. It was here, on 27 April 1521, that Ferdinand Magellan was fatally wounded at the hands of Chief Lapu-Lapu. The event is commemorated at the Mactan Shrine on a stone plinth bearing the date th
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Hyop
Pottery dating from 200 BC to AD 900 has been found in this easily accessible limestone cave, set on a quiet hillside above a pretty rural valley. Guides are available at the entrance; experienced Marife Nieva is one of the better ones. Tips are appreciated.Hoyop-Hoyopan is about 2
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Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary
Just 20 minutes from Mactan by public bangka, Olango Island is home to the Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary. Taking in 1030 hectares of sand flats and mangroves on Olango’s southern shores, the sanctuary supports the largest concentration of migratory birds found in the Philippines
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San Agustin Church
The San Agustin Church was the only building left intact after the destruction of Intramuros in WWII. Built between 1587 and 1606, it is the oldest church in the Philippines. The massive facade conceals an ornate interior filled with objects of great historical and cultural merit.
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North Cemetery
If you thought Manilas Chinese Cemetery was different, you clearly havent made it to its abutting North Cemetery. While significant for being the burial place of many notable Filipinos, including numerous presidents and revolutionaries, its on tourists radars more so as a place to
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