Calaguas Islands
No roads. No resorts. Just the kind of beach people used to find by accident.
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Vigan City: The Colonial Streets, the Burnay Pottery, and the Food That Survived
Vigan City survived the Second World War for a reason that is easy to overlook when you are standing on Calle Crisologo taking photographs. General Yamashita withdrew his forces from the city without fighting for it. His decision, whether strategic ...
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The Chocolate Hills of Bohol: The View, the Season, and the Science
The first thing the Chocolate Hills Bohol delivers is a problem of scale. You stand at the top of Viewpoint One in Carmen, and the hills extend in every direction to the horizon. More than a thousand of them. All ...
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Hidden Beaches in Thailand That Most Travelers Never Reach
The fisherman who changed my plan didn’t speak much English. He pointed south, said ‘Koh Kradan,’ and held up three fingers. Three hours by boat from Pak Meng. I had three nights booked in Koh Lanta. I canceled them. That ...
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Hidden Beaches in the Philippines Most Travelers Never Find
The first time I found Cagbalete Island, I wasn’t looking for it. I was on a bus outside Mauban in Quezon Province, talking to a man named Rolando who sold dried fish at the market. He mentioned, almost as an ...
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Visayan Islands Tourism: Six Hidden Beaches in Cebu and Bohol
The last time I crossed from Hagnaya to Bantayan Island, the ferry was full of locals coming back from the market in San Remigio. I was the only foreigner on board. The crossing costs less than fifty pesos and takes ...
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