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Cebu Philippines’ 5 Best Beaches to Visit

Cebu showcases the best of the best tourist attractions. While staying in the province, you can also add on your itinerary a water adventure. Water Adventure? Yes, Cebu is not only a home of oldest churches or historical places but it also has beautiful beaches that you will enjoy!

After showing the Cebu's historical places you may visit, it’s time to relax and enjoy the nature.

Just like the other provinces of Philippines, Cebu has its unique identities that everyone for sure to enjoy. Packed your things from your hotel in Cebu and let’s explore the most exciting part of your trip. Below is the list of the beaches you may visit.

      1. Malaspascua Island

      The island is located on the northernmost tip of the province. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes away from the Cebu City. The island will meet your enthusiasm if you want to experience scuba diving, skim boarding, snorkelling and meeting a thresher shark.

      The island is surrounded by white sands and clear crystal water.

      2. Camotes Islands

      It is just 2 hours from the capital of Cebu. Camotes offers the best experience of island life. The Island is come up with four islands Pacijan, Poro, Ponson and Tulang. For the best hotel accommodations and beaches, you should choose Pacijan Island.

      While in the Island you may also enter the woods and do exciting adventure island hiking and discover the purple heron or the Philippine wild duck.

      3. Moalboal

      It is located on the southwest of the province and just an hour from the mainland of Cebu. The place of Saavedra is the most visited in Moalboal because of the beautiful resort, the Bas Daku White Beach.

      You can enjoy snorkeling in this place.

      4. Oslob

      Oslob is located in the southern Cebu. It takes an hour to arrive here. The place is famous for its beautiful beaches and underwater nature. One of the attractions here is the whale shark or Butanding, a largest mammal on the sea. See and meet face to face this harmless and large mammal.

      Oslob is also famous as a scuba diving destination because of its extraordinary underwater world.

    See: Best Diving Places in the Philippines.

      5. Bantayan Island

      Bantayan Island takes 2 hours to 3 hours to arrive from Cebu City. The island is surrounded by white sands and blue-green water. It can be the best beach in the country but it is not discovered by many tourists. It may be the paradise you are looking for, not yet crowded like other beaches.

      Experience the sugar-fine sand at Sugar Beach, one of the beaches on the Island.

Cebu Philippines, Let’s explore the Province.

Cebu, Cebu City, what are the things comes out in your mind when you were here the City of Cebu? For me, it is the battle between Lapu-lapu and Magellan and the Magellan’s Cross. Those names are what I learned from my Sibika class when I was in grade school.

Cebu is the oldest city in the Philippines and home of old churches. Cebu is full of histories that are interesting to discover. Did you know that before the Spaniards come, the city of Cebu is known as fishing and trading village trades with other countries in Asia? And how Magellan introduces Christianity to the Cebuanos?

Getting interested? Get your laptop and find a ticket and Cebu's hotel because this will be fun. For now, let’s explore the historical places in the province.

1. Basilica del Santo Nino
The Basilica Del Santo Nino or Minor Basilica of the Holy Child is considered as the oldest Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. The church was built on the spot when the image of Santo Nino de Cebu was found by a Spanish explorer Miguel Lopez de Legazpi.
The church was damaged when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Visayas on October 2013.

2. Magellan’s Cross
The cross is a Christian cross planted by Ferdinand Magellan, who introduces Roman Catholic when he arrived in Cebu while exploring the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean. The Magellan’s Cross is located next to the Basilica del Santo Nino.

3. Lapu-lapu Shrine
The monument was built to honor Lapu-lapu, for defeating the Spaniards in the battle of Mactan. Lapu-lapu is the could be the first native Filipino hero. The statue was said to be in the exact spot where he fought and killed Magellan.

4. Fort San Pedro
The Fort San Pedro was built by the Spaniards and indigenous Cebuano laborers under the command of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, a Spanish conquistador, to stop the Muslim raiders. It is the smallest and oldest tri-bastion fort in the Philippines. The fort is located at the Plaza Indepedencia in the pier area of Cebu.

5. Colon Street
The colon street is the shortest and oldest street in the country. It witnesses many events during Spaniards time. Miguel Lopez de Legazpi the one who design the town structure.
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