The AswangLegend The most feared figure in Filipino folklore, and one of the most varied: the aswang can be a shapeshifter, a self-segmenting manananggal that flies as a torso hunting the pregnant, or a ghoul that steals the dead. Belief is... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Chocolate HillsLegend Somewhere between 1,260 and 1,776 near-identical grassy cones spread over 50 square kilometres of Bohol, most of them 30 to 50 metres tall and the largest 120. They are conical karst: limestone dissolved by rain, surface water... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Puerto Princesa underground riverLegend The second longest underground river in the world runs 8.2 km through a cave system of at least 32, and you can take a boat 4.3 km in from the sea. Because the mouth is tidal, salt water pushes up to about 6 km inside and sits... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Yamashita treasureLegend The great treasure legend of Asia. As Japan lost the Pacific war, gold and loot plundered across Asia was, the story goes, hidden by General Tomoyuki Yamashita in caves and tunnels across the Philippines. Treasure hunters have... Open it on the map · Read the story
Yamashita’s goldLegend The claim is that loot plundered across occupied Asia was hidden in caves and tunnels here as the Japanese position collapsed in 1945. Historians are largely unconvinced there was ever one organised hoard, and decades of... Open it on the map · Read the story
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