Description
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Stop piecing your Philippines trip together from 40 open browser tabs.
The Philippines is seven thousand islands, and almost every itinerary online tries to sell you all of them. This guide does three places properly: Cebu for the history and the waterfalls, Coron for the hidden lakes and the shipwreck bay, and El Nido for the limestone islands everyone has seen a photo of. Ten days, one internal flight, one ferry.
I’ve spent years writing about these islands — the city guides, the restaurant lists, the boat tours, the one experience I researched and then chose not to do. This guide condenses all of it into one practical, plan-it-tonight PDF — written for traveling families, not for honeymooners and not for backpackers who can sleep on a ferry floor.
What’s inside
- A complete 10-day itinerary — Cebu City and old Spanish Cebu, the waterfalls and the sardine run in the south, Coron Island’s hidden lakes, then Bacuit Bay in El Nido. Day by day, with every travel day marked so you can see where the hard mornings fall.
- Four full destination chapters — Cebu City & Mactan, South Cebu (Moalboal, Kawasan & Oslob), Coron on Busuanga, and El Nido, Palawan. What to see and do, where to eat, where to stay, how to get there, and the best time to go for every stop.
- “With Kids” callouts in every chapter — which boat tour to book and why private is worth it, where the pre-cooked counter is when nobody can wait another twenty minutes, which climbs need a carrier instead of a stroller, and the honest reason I didn’t take my family to the whale sharks at Oslob — plus what we did instead.
- Island-hopping, decoded — El Nido runs four numbered boat tours, and this explains which one to book, what’s actually on it, and why the quiet one is the right call with children.
- Thirty named restaurants — pulled from years of eating my way around Cebu, Coron and El Nido, with the ones that make you wait flagged before you turn up hungry.
- Planning pages — a Filipino food cheat-sheet so nobody orders blind, a packing list built around boat days, and a before-you-go checklist that starts twelve weeks out.
The details
- 14-page designed PDF — read it on your phone or print it for the plane
- Instant digital download — nothing ships
- Personal use license
Maayong panaw, and safe travels! — Meghan
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