Attractions
Every day seems to be a holiday on Boracay - all you need to do is
relax and enjoy yourself. Just get up, make some coffee and decide whether
to go sailing, windsurfing or perhaps snorkeling and looking at corals.
Mount Luho is the highest elevation on
Boracay Island with 100 meters above sea level. For the uninitiated,
it can be an excruciating ascent going there, but definitely worth
the view. Once up there, a little kiosk serves cold water and soft
drinks and one can take a rest in one of the hammocks between the
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The Bat Caves are on the north East coast of Yapak. It’s the home
of cave bats and the giant fruit bats with a wingspan of up to four
feet. The fruit bats fly regularly at twilight to their nocturnal hunt
for food. Naturalists, photographers, spelunkers and brave souls willing
to bear the intense stench in the cave can hire local guides, usually
young children from the village, to lead them through the jungle-paths
to the caves. Environmentalists, however, rather leave the fruit bats
to their daytime sleep and wait for the sunset at the White Beach as
hundreds, sometimes thousands, of bats take their nocturnal flight right
over their heads.
The Dead Forest next to the fishponds in the south of the island there
are scores of dead trees. Their silhouettes jut eerily into the landscape
in a horribly fascinating way (especially at the witching hour on the
night of a full moon).
Museum The Kar-Tir Shell Museum in Iligan has a small collection of
sea shells display as well as arts & crafts works various woven
products to see. Admission
P20.