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Tinongchol Burial Rock
About 3km northwest of Kabayan, near barangay Kabayan Barrio, is the Tinongchol Burial Rock, where several coffins have been leveraged into cut holes in a boulder. Its a one-hour walk along a footpath that starts behind Kabayans national museum through stunning mountain scenery. Af
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Aguinaldo House
The real reason for coming here is to visit Aguinaldo House in the village of Kawit, 23km south of Manila. Here the revolutionary army of General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed Philippine Independence on 12 June 1898 – a triumph soon quashed by the Americans. The house is now a shrine
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Balangay Shrine Museum
Towards the airport, at barangay Libertad, is the Balangay Shrine Museum, home to the remains of a balangay (seagoing outrigger boat) dating from 321, one of the oldest-known artefacts in the Philippines. (The word ‘barangay’ in fact derives from balangay, as the boats were big eno
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San Joseph Parish Church
This attractive church is home to the famous bamboo organ, built between the years of 1816 and 1821. A particularly lean period, the Spanish priest Padre Diego Cera, instructed bamboo to be used instead of the more expensive metal for the majority of the organ pipes. The horizontal
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Weather Station
During WWII, the US military transformed the area into a launching pad for attacks on Japan, and it was once the largest PT (patrol boat) base in the world, with as many as 300 boats and 150,000 troops stationed here, including a young future-President Kennedy. You can walk up to t
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Lamanok Island
This island 7km north of Anda proper has several anthropologically important cave paintings – made with bare hands – that date back tens of thousands of years. Travel 15 minutes by habal-habal or tricycle to the jumping-off point, where small boats bring you out to the island. On t
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Cagsawa Church
A couple of kilometres beyond Daraga, you find the most classic of Bicols panoramas: the stand-alone greenery-topped belfry of the sunken Cagsawa Church against the backdrop of Mt Mayon. Twelve hundred people took refuge here from divine wrath in the form of 1814’s violent eruption
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Padre José Burgos National Museum
Built in 1788, the Padre José Burgos National Museum is in the ancestral home of Father José Burgos, one of the three martyr priests executed by the Spanish in 1872. It houses an extensive collection of Ilocano artefacts, including a series of 14 paintings by the locally famed pain
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Magellan’s Cross
Ferdinand’s Catholic legacy, a large wooden cross, is housed in a stone rotunda (built in 1841) across from Cebu City Hall. The crucifix on show here apparently contains remnants from a cross Magellan planted on the shores of Cebu in 1521. A painting on the ceiling of the rotunda s
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St Paul Cathedral
This church was built in ‘earthquake baroque’ style (ie thick-walled and massive) after an earlier incarnation was damaged by two quakes in 1619 and 1627. The construction of the original wooden, thatched church is believed to have been supervised by Salcedo himself in 1574. The br
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Bituon Beach
Fourteen kilomtres south of Matsbate Town, and down a rough dirt road is the attractive crescent Bituon Beach, hugely popular with local families on weekends. If youre not staying at the rather odd-looking Bituon Beach Resort (www.bituonbeach.com) – a collection of thatched huts an
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Crisologo Museum
The Crisologos, Vigan’s most prominent political dynasty, have converted their ancestral home into this strangely compelling family shrine. In addition to the mildly interesting family photos, personal effects, period furniture and impressive collection of indigenous Filipino headg
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Calabidongan Cave
Located around 3km from Hyop-Hyopan Cave, the more challenging Calabidongan Cave (literally, Cave of the Bats) is for more adventurous, confident spelunkers as its partially flooded interior requires you to swim a short distance within the cave. It can only be accessed when water l
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Tops Lookout
Make your way to JY Square Mall in Lahug, where habal-habal (motorcyle taxis) depart for the thrilling 20-minute ride (return P300) up a winding road to the Tops lookout point, 600m above Cebu. To get to JY Square take any jeepney labeled JY Mall heading north on Pres Osmeña Blvd o
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University of San Carlos Museum
This well-put-together museum is best known for its anthropological and archaeological exhibits, including displays depicting the 16th-century practise of artificial skull deformation on infants for aesthetic reasons. We’ll let you be the judge of that. There are ancient boat coffi
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Binangawan Falls
This, the shortest of the falls on Camiguin, at 15m or so, is one of the most difficult to reach and only advisable with a guide arranged through your accommodation or the tourism office (P1500). The turn-off is just past the village of Sagay; from here it’s another 7km or so up un
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Cataja Falls
This three-tiered waterfall cascading into a refreshing swimming hole makes for a great half-day excursion. Walk (or ride) east out of Magdiwang past the basketball court (leaving it on your right) and continue about 1km to a fork in the road. Take the right fork, then another quic
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Baguio Buddhist Temple
This tough-to-find Buddhist temple is near the campus of St Louis University, and is located off Assumption Rd. There’s a 6m sitting Buddha and interesting views of the city-market area. The temple tends to attract Filipino students and New Age types with an interest in Buddhism, a
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Manila Cathedral
First built in 1581 (and rebuilt seven times since, most recently in 1951 following its destruction in WWII) Manila Cathedrals present edifice looks suitably ancient with its weathered Romanesque facade and graceful cupola. Inside are a gilded altar, a 4500-pipe organ and rosette w
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Cultural Center of the Philippines
The centrepiece of the CCP Complex is this bombastic building designed by noted Filipino architect Leandro Locsin. Inside features a mix of modern art galleries such as the quality Bulwagang Juan Luna gallery with its changing exhibits covering modernist and contemporary painters,
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