Binondo's dumpling houses, Visayan lechon, heirloom rice in the Cordillera: the country tastes better with a guide.
Filipino food is regional, generous and badly underrated abroad. Manila alone runs from Binondo, the world's oldest Chinatown, to a new generation of chefs cooking with Philippine ingredients. In Cebu, lechon is a serious subject. In the Cordillera, rice terraces built by hand grow varieties you will not find anywhere else.
We add food and culture to most journeys rather than treating it as a separate trip: a market walk on your first morning, a family-run carinderia over a resort buffet, an afternoon with a weaver or a church that survived three centuries of earthquakes. Guides are chosen because they know the subject, not because they speak the script.
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A huge, hectic capital with a walled Spanish city at its heart, the world's oldest Chinatown, serious museums and the country's best food scene.
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The country's oldest city and the busiest hub in the Visayas, with the best lechon in the Philippines and waterfalls, whale sharks and reefs a few hours south.
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A big island of sugar country, heritage towns and grilled chicken in the north, and quiet beaches, marine reserves and Dumaguete's easy pace in the south.
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The Ifugao rice terraces, carved into the Cordillera mountains by hand over many generations and still farmed by the same communities today.
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A relaxed university town on Negros with a seafront promenade, very good diving at Apo Island and Dauin, and ferries to Siquijor.
16 days · Essential / Boutique / Premium
Manila • Dumaguete • Siquijor • Bohol • Siargao
Fewer stops, longer stays. Siquijor's waterfalls and healers, Bohol's countryside, then four unhurried days in Siargao. For people who would rather know one place well than see six.
From €2,400per person ·
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21 days · Essential / Boutique / Premium / Signature
Manila • Banaue • Sagada • El Nido • Bohol • Siargao
Three weeks from Manila's old city to the rice terraces of the Cordillera, then Palawan, Bohol and Siargao. The whole country in one trip, without pretending it is a small one.
From €3,300per person ·
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10 days · Essential / Boutique / Premium
Manila • Banaue • Sagada • Vigan
Manila's old town and food, the rice terraces of Banaue and Batad, Sagada's caves, then the Spanish colonial streets of Vigan. The Philippines' history and mountains in ten days.
From €1,700per person ·
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12 days · Essential / Boutique / Premium
Cebu • Malapascua • Moalboal • Bohol
All by road and sea, with no domestic flights: Cebu city's history and food, Malapascua's sharks, Moalboal's sardine run and canyons, then Bohol.
From €1,700per person ·
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