Visayas Region
"The heart of the archipelago, and the reason most people fall in love with the Philippines."
Articles
Ocean and Marine Life of Negros Island: Apo Island, Dauin, and the Waters of the Coral Triangle
The waters surrounding Negros Island lie within the Coral Triangle. This is a roughly triangular area of tropical seas bounded by the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It contains more species of reef fish, coral, and marine invertebrates than ...
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The Culture of Negros Island: Two Languages, One Island, and the Festival That Refused to Stop Smiling
I watched the MassKara Festival street dancers for the first time and understood. I learned something about Negros Island that the history books had been circling around. The dancers were not performing happiness. They were insisting on it. The masks, ...
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Cebu Island Diving: What the Sardine Run, the Whale Sharks, and the Threshers Actually Ask of You
The first time I dived in Cebu, I was already in the water. The boat captain had said sardines, and I pictured a school. What I dropped into at Moalboal was not a school. It was a city. Millions of ...
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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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