Destinations

Desert Island Zebras | Rory Spowers | Philippines, Visayas, Palawan

I woke to breath-taking views of the Busuanga Islands, a collection of perfect palm-fringed little splodges, surrounded by bands of dazzling white and electric blue, like giant pulsating jellyfish...

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Out of Africa, into the Philippines | John Borthwick | Philippines, Visayas, Palawan

It sounds like a Genesis Joke. In the beginning, Eden was a Pacific island under martial law. Then the President said, "Let there be zebra” — and there were zebra, plus giraffe, gazelle and impala

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Scuba Diving in Palawan | Brent Hannon | Philippines, Visayas, Palawan

Palawan province, is the best-kept diving secret in Asia… a stunning collection of WWII shipwrecks, and despite coral reefs, wine blue seas, white sand beaches, and waving palm trees, the area remains almost unvisited.

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Palawan: Nest of Dreams | John Borthwick | Philippines, Visayas, Palawan

The islands of El Nido can seem like a chain of dreams. For two days we explore by banca boat and kayak a world where jungle-clad islets jut from the sea crowned by an untamed topiary of witch's hats and mitre caps

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Amanpulo | Cynthia Rosenfeld | Philippines, Visayas, Palawan

A single girl's adventure on the Philippines' most romantic island.

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