Limasawa Island
Location: Southern tip of Southern Leyte; a 45-minute pumpboat ride from Padre Burgos to the island.
Attraction: Site of the celebration of the First Christian Mass in the Orient when Ferdinand Magellan came in 1521; historical and cultural viewing of the Magellan Shrine / Marker.
It is also a diver's paradise. It boasts of magnificent walls and sheer drop-offs decorated with a variety of lovely fan corals which never fails to awe even the most traveled and experienced diver. The island also has sites for novice divers and beginners, as well as excellent reef communities on a gradual slope. It is ideal for open water diving and underwater photography. For the more daring and adventurous, there are numerous holes and cavelets where one may encounter a passing sea snake or a couple of squids.
Travel Tip: Best time to visit the island: March to early June/October to December. Trips can be arranged by the Southern Leyte Governor's Office or passenger pumpboats are available at Padre Burgos wharf.
Bitu-on Beach
Location: Barangay San Roque, Liloan, Southern Leyte; can be reached only by banca with outriggers; a 30-minute boat ride from the townproper.
Attraction: White sandy beach; shells of various kinds and colors; good for picnicking, swimming; fishing and shell hunting.
Kuting Beach Resort
Location: Macrohon, Southern Leyte.
Attractions: Wide stretches of sandy beach favorite for swimming and picnics
Magsuhot Park
Location: Sogod, Southern Leyte; only 3-kilometer from Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway.
Attractions: Has a forested area of 500 hectares. It has 4 waterfalls falling into a common basin and is 20 meters high. Other sights 12 kilometers away are Lum-an and Mahayhay Falls with a 60-meter fall.
Wawa Strait
Location: Macrohon, Southern Leyte.
Attractions: The often invisible strait is a sight to behold from this town; one could simply while away his time and get a relaxing feeling by going to this point to get a glimpse of its beauty.
Tancaan Point (Sta. Sofia Beach)
Location: Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte.
Facilities: Concrete stairway to a watchower overlooking the deep sea and historic Limasawa Island; natural shades and picnic tables.
Tancaan Point/Buenavista Fish Sanctuary
Location: Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte ; about forty five minutes from Maasin by land.
Description: A real stand-out when it comes to diving, snorkeling or just plain beachcombing or swimming; offers total exhilarating underwater tour - excelent corals, drop-offs, holes and cavelets, canyons, mini-trenches; rich variety of fishes like napoleon wrasses, groupers, sweetlips, snappers, parrotfishes, butterflyfishes eagle rays, sea trurtle, barracudas, sea turtle and pelagic fishes.
Travel Tips: Best time to dive: October to May, private boat can be hired from Maasin or Padre Burgos. Divers should bring their diving equipment and food.
Guinsohotan and Busay Falls
Location: Maasin, Southern Leyte.
Attractions: Clear waters good for swimming and picnicking.
Sulphur Spring
Location: Anahawan, Southern Leyte.
Attractions: Sulphur spring water with curative power.
Maamo Beach
Location: Barangay San Roque, Liloan, Southern Leyte; can be reached only by banca with outriggers.
Attractions: White sandy beach; good for swimming and fishing.
San Pedro and San Pablo Beaches
Location: Hinunangan, Southern Leyte.
Attractions: White coral beaches ideal for swimming, surfing and skiing; can very well accommodate a variety of activities related to diving and other water sports/recreation.
Panaon Island
Location: Liloan, Southern Leyte.
Attractions: A part of Mindanao Deep, the second deepest body of water in the world; one of the most mystifying dive destinations in Southern Leyte. It is where one may encounter a school whales or dolphins.
SUN-OK FISH SANCTUARY
Location: Pintuyan, Southern Leyte; situated below an imposing rock edifice, this sanctuary can be reached by motorized banca in about two hours from Maasin upon prior arrangement with private operators.
Description: Hosts a variety of marine life; the underwater contour is actually a terrace full of distinct coral formations inhabited by large species of fish. Fully rehabilitated soft and hard corals along cracks and crevices provide an appropriate backdrop that sums up a totally interesting dive experience; the rock edifice is ideal for rock climbing.
Travel Tips: Best time to dive: October to May; fishing and collection of shells and others is strictly prohibited.
TABUGON FISH SANCTUARY
Location: Liloan, Southern Leyte.
Description: The coastal town of Liloan, with its protective bay, has also one of the biggest reef areas recommended by the Silliman University Marine Laboratory as proposed marine reserves; regularly visited by the biggest fish in the world, the whale shark.
ILIJAN POINT / NAPANTAW FISH SANCTUARY
Location: San Francisco, Southern Leyte; can be reached by motorized banca in about two hours from Maasin upon prior arrangement with private boat operators.
Description: Healthy corals, clear water, rich marine life; the highly diversed underwater terrain in the area promises to be a challenging and exciting dive that a resident school fully grown surgeon fishes welcomes the "intruder" to a celebration of marine bliss and tranquility; hideout full of huge sea fans and soft corals; the place is virtually intact.
Travel Tips: Visitors should bring their own equipment and provisions (water, foods, etc.); bathing/swimming/snorkeling is allowed in nearby beaches and adjacent reef areas; best time to dive: October to May.
SOGOD BAY
Location: 124 kilometers from Tacloban City via the Maharlika Highway.
Description: Have already established big fish sanctuaries which will someday become excellent dive sties. The whole of Sogod Bay and parts of the Pacific area, including the islands of San Pablo and San Pedro can very well accommodate a variety of activities related to diving and other water sports and recreation.
PATAG DAKU
Location: Libagon, Southern Leyte; to reach Patag Daku, one has to ride a bus or private vehicle from Maasin to Libagon. The trip may take about 2-3 hours. While in Libagon, arrangements can be made with the municipal government for guides/porters, especially for first time climbers.
Description: Patag Daku, in English, means big plain. It is certainly big but is never quite plain. It is actually a valley so dense in vegetations that novice campers and mountaineers will never come in or out without an experienced guide leading the way. But the trek to the valley comes big in every way. In mountaineering parlance, it is a major climb. Not the leisurely stroll that one might expect, the climb is an arduopus six hour journey through a maze of trees, ferns, moss, grass and big trees.
Travel Tips: Start the tour at about 7:00 to 8:00 in the morning; bring potable water; climbing / camping equipment is a must especially if the group wishes to stay overnight.
Maasin Cathedral
Location: Maasin, Southern Leyte.
Facilities: Catholic Church situated inside a beautiful park, with recreational facilities such as swings, slides, tennis court.
Attractions: Image and “santos” whose art and architecture dates back to the Spanish era are still found in its altar and ceilings.
MALITBOG, SOUTHERN LEYTE
Location: 253 kilometers from Tacloban City by land transport.
Attraction: One of the oldest towns in the province of Leyte which was once the center of trade and commerce; old big Spanish houses and church; canopy of century-old acacia trees at the town plaza; the prominent Escaño family mausoleum built in 1928 with its dome towering over a catacomb; fine beaches and unexplored caves.
ZIP SOUTHERN LEYTE
The soft opening of ZIP SOUTHERN LEYTE, the first tandem zipline facility in Eastern Visayas was held on April 15, 2011 in Agas-agas Bridge, Brgy. Kahupian, Sogod Southern, Leyte. �Agas� is a local term for flow.
By land, Agas-agas is approximately 2 hours from Tacloban City, the regional capital and 3 hours away from the the port city of Ormoc via Baybay-Mahaplag.
Zip Southern Leyte is dubbed as the highest and longest zipline ever constructed in the country at present. It is one kilometer in length and has a height of more 1000 meters.
Zipline have mushroomed in the Philippines. The Agas-agas zip experience affords a picturesque view of surrounding thick forest. With a helmet, harness and carabiner, the flyer poised like a �superman�, takes off from a hill and gets across the T-shaped bridge in only 30 seconds on the average depending on one�s weight. It is a gradual descent and slightly winding towards the finish line. The wind against one�s face is refreshing which seems like a reward for a personal triumph.
ZIPLINE RATES: P280.00 regular rate per person / P250 special rate per person for a group of 10 or more
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