Near Mayon Volcano, the town of Manito sits on ground that never cools. We visited its two boiling lakes, walked to a Japanese tunnel no one dares enter, and waded…
DIDICAS ISLAND, BABUYAN ISLANDS β The first thing I felt was the heat. Not the heat of the sun, but heat rising from below, coming up through the sand and…
Somewhere on the slopes of Mount Masaraga in Albay, a self-taught inventor has quietly achieved what millions of Filipinos only dream of: free, unlimited electricity β twenty-four hours a day,…
In our area, sometimes you see not just one. Three to four can be spotted every time you go."
That's how a resident of Balabac describes the crocodiles in his…
There is a town in the far south of the Philippines that sits right in the middle of two great seas. On one side is the Sulu Sea. On the…
A ten-hour night ferry, a beach ranked among the best in the world, a fort built in the 1600s, and the risky work behind every shiny slab of stone. Here…
A rough, winding road leads to the dwarf forest of Dinagat Islands β a hidden paradise standing at the edge of the world's widest ocean.
LORETO, Dinagat Islands β The…
A first-person account from Bitaugan, an island under Surigao City, where the sea spins hard enough to pull in a boat β and where, strangely, a "miraculous stone" sits on…
I had heard the story long before I ever set foot on Matukad. Somewhere in the middle of this small, rocky island in Caramoan, hidden behind a wall of sharp…