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Skinny dipping and bird-watching in Aroroy
If you are looking for a secluded, seemingly undiscovered beach where you can comfortably skinny dip, try Aroroy Beach in Masbate. The beach does not have any resort or electricity as it was not yet developed...Read full tip...
Climbing a meteorite in Masbate City
If you are looking for a unique adventure, try climbing a large meteorite in Masbate City. I’m not sure if it’s a real meteorite, but locals swear that it is. Likewise, upon looking at its...Read full tip...
Rodeo Masbateño
The best time to go to Masbate is early April, just in time for the city’s most famous festival, the Rodeo Masbateño. The Rodeo is a nationwide contest in which horseback riders plunge into...Read full tip...
Masbate’s only spa
The only spa in the island of Masbate is in Masbate City. You can take a tricycle from the city proper going there. The fare ranges from P20 to P30. The spa has segregated rooms and offers the usual spa...Read full tip...
Lighthouse, caves, waterfalls, etc.
If you’ll be renting a van going to Aroroy Beach, make sure to pass by the mystical caves, waterfalls, a couple of “miraculous” chapels, and a Spanish colonial era lighthouse found one...Read full tip...
Birding Paradise Island (near Aroroy Beach)
Approximately a half hour boat ride away from Aroroy Beach is the Bird Island, a paradise for bird-watchers for its thousands of bird species all-day-long and all-year round. The island is so full of...Read full tip...
Try your luck in gold panning
Masbate is among the country’s very few places where gold mining is still in full swing. The island’s local tourism office offers tour packages to explore their big and small scale gold mines...Read full tip...
Wonderful rock formations and sunset
Cruising the sea from Masbate to Sorsogon (or vice versa) through a paddle boat, a motorized boat or a speedboat is the best way to see the rock formations in between the two islands. These rock formations...Read full tip...
Egret Sanctuary
If you happen to be in Sorsogon, try visiting Pilar’s Egret Sanctuary. It’s a garden of around 300 mangrove trees that serve as the home of about a thousand egrets. The best time to be there...Read full tip...
Where to see a million “UFOs”
Take a boat by Sorsogon’s main port during dusk (around six o’clock p.m.) and see the murky waters be filled with countless little jellyfish that seem like UFOs invading Sorsogon. The jellyfish...Read full tip...
The pinks sands of Flamingo Beach
There is a pristine, underdeveloped beach in Sorsogon the local tourism office has just recently “discovered” and named “Pink Beach” or “Flamingo Beach” because it...Read full tip...
Exploring old houses
If you are on a walking tour of Masbate City, it is nice to try visiting a number of traditional ancestral houses around the town. Such houses date back to the Spanish times (1800s) and were homes to...Read full tip...