The stepped rice landscape around Banaue

Country guide

Philippines

4 places across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.

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Find your way through Philippines.

The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.

Country orientation

Find the shape of your journey.

See how the 4 entries are distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.

Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.

  1. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

    Honourable Mentions · Mountains reshaped by generations of farming knowledge.

  2. Palawan

    Honourable Mentions · Limestone islands, clear-water bays and a much larger island world.

  3. Chocolate Hills

    Honourable Mentions · A repeated landscape of rounded limestone hills.

  4. Batanes

    Further Horizons · Wind-shaped islands and distinctive Ivatan buildings reveal how architecture and everyday life respond to exposure and isolation.

Honourable Mentions

101–200 · 3 places in this country

Kayangan Lake on Coron in Palawan

129 · Philippines

Palawan

Limestone islands, clear-water bays and a much larger island world.

Further Horizons

301–400 · 1 place in this country

The island of Sabtang in Batanes

387 · Philippines

Batanes

Wind-shaped islands and distinctive Ivatan buildings reveal how architecture and everyday life respond to exposure and isolation.

Turn the collection into a journey.

Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.

Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.

For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.