
Bantayan Island
Remote island paradise with pristine beaches and coral reefs
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Remote island paradise with pristine beaches and coral reefs

Swim alongside gentle whale sharks in their natural habitat

Terraced beds of celosia in the highlands, known as Cebu's Little Amsterdam

A Roman-styled monument built as a memorial, high above the city in Busay
A climbable multi-tier waterfall in Samboan, ascended rather than viewed
Moalboal's long public white-sand beach, with room to swim and camp

Historic Spanish-colonial church and significant religious landmark
A wide, open cave on Poro island, daylit through holes in its roof

A small inhabited island known for its sandbar, quilts and grilled seafood
Cebu's oldest and largest public market — produce, fish and street food

A 19th-century Parian house museum showing how a Cebuano family lived

Seat of the Archdiocese of Cebu, rebuilt from its wartime ruins
A tiered Chinese temple in Beverly Hills with city views from its terraces
The oldest national road in the Philippines, laid out in 1565

The oldest and smallest triangular Spanish fort in the Philippines

A sprawling bronze and concrete tableau of the events that shaped Cebu
A marine sanctuary with a wall that drops away metres from the shallows
A tall single drop in Ginatilan, falling into a deep green pool

Turquoise waterfalls perfect for canyoneering and swimming

A large freshwater lake in the middle of Pacijan, paddled rather than swum
A long, quiet public white-sand beach a few minutes from Kawasan

Beautiful white sand beaches with clear waters for diving

Where Lapu-Lapu's men defeated Magellan in 1521, marked from both sides

The cross planted in 1521 that marks the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines

The one reliable place in the world to dive with thresher sharks at dawn

Witness millions of sardines in a mesmerizing underwater display
The former provincial jail, now Cebu's main history museum
A sandbar island and marine sanctuary reached by a long boardwalk

Pre-colonial and Visayan collections inside the restored Aduana building
Tidal flats on the East Asian flyway, where tens of thousands of migratory birds stop
The highest point on Cebu, on a ridge of limestone hills above Dalaguete
A small island off Moalboal with walls, a chimney and dense reef life

Camotes' main white-sand bay, with a dune ridge behind the beach
An uninhabited islet off Mactan, the quietest of the day-trip stops
A small sandbar island off the Oslob coast, inside a protected marine sanctuary
A narrow descent to a cold, clear underground pool you can swim in

The Busay ridge viewpoint over Metro Cebu, best at dusk

Scenic waterfall with a unique curtain effect you can walk behind
A day-trip island off Bantayan, ringed by sandbars at low water

A Chinese-Filipino merchant's home from the 1600s, still furnished and lived in