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  • A tree-shaded strip of white sand on Bantayan Island, with outrigger boats moored in the shallow turquoise water

    Bantayan Island

    Remote island paradise with pristine beaches and coral reefs

    • Beach
    • Snorkeling
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  • Roofless coral-stone ruins of the Oslob Cuartel, arched niches along both walls and a paved walkway running between them under open sky

    Oslob Whale Sharks

    Swim alongside gentle whale sharks in their natural habitat

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

    Sirao Flower Garden

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

    • Gardens
    • Photography
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  • A Roman-styled monument built as a memorial, high above the city in Busay

    Temple of Leah

    A Roman-styled monument built as a memorial, high above the city in Busay

    • Architecture
    • Photography
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  • Aguinid Falls

    A climbable multi-tier waterfall in Samboan, ascended rather than viewed

    • Canyoneering
    • Swimming
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  • Basdaku White Beach

    Moalboal's long public white-sand beach, with room to swim and camp

    • Beach
    • Swimming
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  • The basilica's belfry and facade seen across its wide pilgrim plaza, red rope stanchions standing on the patterned pavement

    Basilica Minore del Santo Niño

    Historic Spanish-colonial church and significant religious landmark

    • History
    • Culture
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  • Bukilat Cave

    A wide, open cave on Poro island, daylit through holes in its roof

    • Caving
    • Photography
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  • A painted "I love Caohagan" sign standing on the white sand in front of the island's open-sided eating shelters

    Caohagan Island

    A small inhabited island known for its sandbar, quilts and grilled seafood

    • Beach
    • Snorkeling
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  • Carbon Market

    Cebu's oldest and largest public market — produce, fish and street food

    • Street Food
    • Shopping
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  • The museum's yellow and teal timber upper storey under a red tile roof, set on coral-stone walls, with potted plants ranged along the balcony rail

    Casa Gorordo Museum

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

    • Museums
    • History
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  • The cathedral's carved pale stone facade beside its separate red-domed belfry, seen over the parked cars on Independencia Street

    Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral

    Seat of the Archdiocese of Cebu, rebuilt from its wartime ruins

    • Culture
    • History
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  • Cebu Taoist Temple

    A tiered Chinese temple in Beverly Hills with city views from its terraces

    • Culture
    • Architecture
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  • Colon Street

    The oldest national road in the Philippines, laid out in 1565

    • History
    • Shopping
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  • The coral-stone gateway of Fort San Pedro, visitors walking in under its carved arch

    Fort San Pedro

    The oldest and smallest triangular Spanish fort in the Philippines

    • History
    • Architecture
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  • The monument's crowd of dark bronze figures massed around a stone church facade, a galleon's masts and a towering cross, behind the low fence that rings it

    Heritage of Cebu Monument

    A sprawling bronze and concrete tableau of the events that shaped Cebu

    • History
    • Photography
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  • Hilutungan Island

    A marine sanctuary with a wall that drops away metres from the shallows

    • Snorkeling
    • Diving
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  • Inambakan Falls

    A tall single drop in Ginatilan, falling into a deep green pool

    • Swimming
    • Hiking
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  • Turquoise pools beneath the tiered cascades of Kawasan Falls

    Kawasan Falls

    Turquoise waterfalls perfect for canyoneering and swimming

    • Canyoneering
    • Swimming
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  • The Lake Danao Park entrance sign mounted on a carved log, with the lake and a floating pontoon behind the trees

    Lake Danao

    A large freshwater lake in the middle of Pacijan, paddled rather than swum

    • Kayaking
    • Nature
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  • Lambug Beach

    A long, quiet public white-sand beach a few minutes from Kawasan

    • Beach
    • Swimming
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  • White sand shoreline and shallow turquoise water on Mactan Island

    Mactan Island Beaches

    Beautiful white sand beaches with clear waters for diving

    • Beach
    • Diving
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  • The bronze statue of Lapu-Lapu raised on a pale stone plinth, palms and the Magellan marker behind it

    Mactan Shrine

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

    • History
    • Culture
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  • The dark wooden cross standing beneath the painted ceiling of its kiosk, the mural above it showing the 1521 planting

    Magellan's Cross

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

    • History
    • Culture
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  • A row of tall coloured banners along a white sand beach on Malapascua, with an outrigger boat drawn up on the sand

    Malapascua Island

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

    • Diving
    • Beach
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  • A dense shoal of sardines swirling in open water at Moalboal

    Moalboal Sardine Run

    Witness millions of sardines in a mesmerizing underwater display

    • Snorkeling
    • Diving
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  • Museo Sugbo

    The former provincial jail, now Cebu's main history museum

    • Museums
    • History
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  • Nalusuan Island

    A sandbar island and marine sanctuary reached by a long boardwalk

    • Snorkeling
    • Beach
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  • Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary

    Tidal flats on the East Asian flyway, where tens of thousands of migratory birds stop

    • Birdwatching
    • Nature
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  • Osmeña Peak

    The highest point on Cebu, on a ridge of limestone hills above Dalaguete

    • Hiking
    • Camping
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  • Pescador Island

    A small island off Moalboal with walls, a chimney and dense reef life

    • Diving
    • Snorkeling
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  • A painted "I love Santiago Bay" sign on a clifftop terrace, with the bay's pale beach and wooded headland behind it

    Santiago Bay

    Camotes' main white-sand bay, with a dune ridge behind the beach

    • Beach
    • Swimming
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  • Sulpa Island

    An uninhabited islet off Mactan, the quietest of the day-trip stops

    • Beach
    • Snorkeling
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  • Sumilon Island

    A small sandbar island off the Oslob coast, inside a protected marine sanctuary

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  • Timubo Cave

    A narrow descent to a cold, clear underground pool you can swim in

    • Caving
    • Swimming
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  • Visitors spread across the paved viewing deck after dark, the lights of Metro Cebu below and a lit spiral staircase at the left

    Tops Lookout

    The Busay ridge viewpoint over Metro Cebu, best at dusk

    • Sunset Watching
    • Photography
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  • Wide curtain of water falling into a shallow pool at Tumalog Falls

    Tumalog Falls

    Scenic waterfall with a unique curtain effect you can walk behind

    • Hiking
    • Photography
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  • Virgin Island

    A day-trip island off Bantayan, ringed by sandbars at low water

    • Beach
    • Snorkeling
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  • The house's dark timber upper storey and tiled roof over coral-stone walls, Philippine flags strung along the balcony and clay pots lining the street below

    Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House

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

    • History
    • Architecture
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