56 places across Bohol Province
municipalityAlburquerque is a small agricultural municipality east of Tagbilaran, a quiet stop along the road corridor to Baclayon with a Spanish-era church and a Saturday barangay market.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityAlicia is a highland municipality in northeastern Bohol, home to the Alicia Panoramic Park — the "City of Clouds" — a 600-metre ridge viewpoint where dry-season mornings bring a temperature-inversion sea of cloud over the lowlands.
Best: Nov–Mar
municipalityAnda occupies Bohol's easternmost peninsula, a low-key alternative to Panglao with white-sand beaches, cave pools, and a Spanish-era watchtower, roughly 110km from Tagbilaran by road.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityAntequera is an inland municipality north of Tagbilaran known for its Sunday handicraft market, where household weavers sell rattan, bamboo, and pandan baskets produced across the town's barangays.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityBaclayon, 6km east of Tagbilaran, holds one of the oldest stone churches in the Philippines — the Jesuit-founded Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, begun in 1595 — and is a standard stop on the Tagbilaran-Loboc heritage circuit.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandBalicasag Island, a protected marine sanctuary 8km southwest of Panglao, ranks among the Philippines' top dive destinations for wall diving, resident sea turtles, and pelagic fish encounters.
Best: Nov–Apr
municipalityBalilihan is a landlocked farming municipality in west-central Bohol bordering the Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape, with no developed tourist infrastructure of its own.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityBatuan is a central Bohol municipality within the Chocolate Hills zone, home to a secondary viewpoint into the karst formation and one of the province's most ornate Baroque stone church facades.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityBien Unido, on Bohol's remote northeastern tip, is the practical access point for the Danajon Bank double barrier reef — one of the most biodiverse reef systems in the Philippines.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityBilar is a central Bohol highland municipality known for its two-kilometre man-made mahogany forest corridor and as the main gateway to Rajah Sikatuna National Park.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandBohol Island is the 10th-largest Philippine island — 4,117 km² of uplifted Miocene limestone, a karst cockpit interior with the Chocolate Hills, and the Loboc and Abatan river systems draining south to the Bohol Sea.
Best: Nov–Apr
provinceBohol Province is a Central Visayas island province of 49 LGUs — Tagbilaran City is the capital and air-sea gateway; the Chocolate Hills, tarsier, and Panglao coast are its signature draws.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityBuenavista is a farming and fishing municipality on Bohol's northern coast, a transit point along the highway between Inabanga and Talibon with a modest Spanish-era church.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandCabilao Island, off Bohol's northwest coast, draws divers for seasonal scalloped hammerhead shark aggregations between January and April and reef walls in good condition relative to other Central Visayas sites.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityCalape is a northwestern Bohol coastal municipality with a well-preserved 17th-century Spanish church and a small port used for irregular crossings to southern Cebu.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityCandijay is an eastern Bohol municipality known as the access point for Can-umantad Falls, one of the province's largest waterfalls, and the Cadapdapan Rice Terraces in its upland interior.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityCarmen is the central Bohol municipality that hosts the Chocolate Hills Complex — over 1,200 uniformly conical limestone hills and a declared National Geological Monument, Bohol's most recognized landmark.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityCatigbian is a landlocked farming municipality in west-central Bohol, on the secondary road between Tagbilaran and Sagbayan, with minimal tourist infrastructure of its own.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityClarin is a small coastal municipality on Bohol's northwestern shore, known for its Spanish colonial-era coral-stone church and as a quiet stop on the highway between Tubigon and Inabanga.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityCorella is a small central Bohol municipality best known for the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary, a protected habitat for the world's smallest primate, roughly 8 kilometres north of Tagbilaran.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityCortes is a small agricultural municipality in northwest Bohol between Tagbilaran City and Tubigon — a farming and fishing community functioning mainly as a transit point rather than a destination.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityDagohoy is an inland Bohol municipality named after Boholano revolutionary Francisco Dagohoy, though the rebellion's own historic sites lie in neighbouring Danao. Formed in 1956 from four Bohol towns.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityDanao is a rugged municipality in Bohol's northern highlands, known for the Bohol Sea of Clouds viewpoint, the Francisco Dagohoy Cave where the 1744 rebellion began, and an adventure park built into the terrain.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityDauis is a coastal municipality on the peninsula south of Tagbilaran, connected to Panglao Island by causeway, home to Dauis Church and its well reputed for curative water.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityDimiao is an inland municipality in central-eastern Bohol among rolling hills and farmland south of the Chocolate Hills corridor, a farming community with no established tourist infrastructure.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityDuero is a coastal municipality on Bohol's southeastern shore facing the Mindanao Sea, a fishing and farming community with limited tourist infrastructure.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityGarcia Hernandez is a coastal municipality on Bohol's southern shore between Loay and Jagna, an agricultural and fishing community named after a Spanish colonial governor.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityGetafe is a coastal municipality in northern Bohol facing the Camotes Sea, near the Danajon Double Barrier Reef, with a small port and fishing-based economy.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityGuindulman is a coastal municipality on Bohol's southeastern shore between Jagna and Duero, known for its Spanish colonial church and fishing economy.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandHingotanan Island is a small island off Bohol's northeastern coast in Bien Unido municipality, notable for its mangroves and proximity to the Danajon Double Barrier Reef.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityInabanga sits at the mouth of Bohol's longest river in the island's agricultural north, a minor transit point between Tagbilaran and the Tubigon ferry corridor rather than a destination in its own right.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityJagna is a port municipality on Bohol's southeastern coast, the island's main ferry gateway to Mindanao, with a cliff-edged coastline, a 1697 coral-stone church, and access to Can-umantad and Mag-aso Falls inland.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandLapinig Island is a small, sparsely inhabited island off Bohol's northeastern coast in the Camotes Sea, administratively part of Pres. Carlos P. Garcia municipality — not Inabanga, as some sources incorrectly list it.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityLila is a small inland-to-coastal municipality in south-central Bohol between Loay and Jagna, primarily agricultural with a modest 18th-century church and little tourist infrastructure.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityLoay sits at the confluence of the Loay and Loboc rivers in southern Bohol, the seaward exit of the Loboc River cruise route, with a colonial-era bridge and a working riverside community.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityLoboc is one of Bohol's most-visited towns, home to the floating-restaurant river cruise, a 1602 National Cultural Treasure church, and the western approach to the Bilar Man-made Forest.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityLoon is a coastal municipality on Bohol's western shore built around the Immaculate Conception Church, one of the largest Spanish colonial churches in the Visayas and a declared National Cultural Treasure.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityMabini is a quiet fishing and farming municipality on Bohol's northeastern coast facing the Camiguin Channel, known among divers for fringing reefs that see far less traffic than Panglao.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityMaribojoc is a small coastal municipality on Bohol's southwestern shore, home to Punta Cruz Watchtower, a National Historical Landmark and one of the most accessible heritage side-trips from Tagbilaran.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandPamilacan Island is a small coral island off Baclayon, Bohol, where a community that once hunted whale sharks and manta rays now guides visitors to the same waters for dolphin and whale watching.
Best: Dec–Apr
IslandPanglao Island is Bohol's primary beach and dive destination, joined to the mainland by two bridges, home to Alona and Dumaluan beaches and some of the most species-rich reef diving in the Central Visayas.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityPanglao is the island municipality behind Alona Beach and Bohol's reef diving, joined to the mainland by two bridges and drawing the largest share of the province's foreign tourist arrivals.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityPilar is a small agricultural and fishing municipality on Bohol's northeastern coast facing the Camotes Sea, with no dedicated tourist infrastructure of its own.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityPres. Carlos P. Garcia is a fifth-class coastal municipality on Bohol's southeastern shore, renamed for the Boholano-born president, with an economy of coconut, corn, and small-scale fishing.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalitySagbayan is an inland central Bohol municipality known for Sagbayan Peak, a less-crowded vantage point over the Chocolate Hills formation, set among the province's most classically karst terrain.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalitySan Isidro is a small inland municipality in northeastern Bohol with a coconut and corn farming economy, positioned between Talibon and Bien Unido with no organized tourist circuit.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalitySan Miguel is a northern Bohol municipality on the Bohol Strait, its economy built on fishing and coconut farming, with travellers mostly passing through on the northern coastal road.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalitySevilla is a small inland municipality in central Bohol beside the Chocolate Hills zone, running on rice and coconut farming with occasional visitor crossover from the Carmen tourist circuit.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalitySierra Bullones occupies some of Bohol's highest terrain in the east-central interior, known locally for its cool climate, upland agriculture, and forested ridgelines above 500 metres.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalitySikatuna is a small inland municipality in central Bohol named for Datu Sikatuna, who conducted the 1565 blood compact with Miguel López de Legazpi; it is primarily agricultural with limited tourist infrastructure.
Best: Dec–Apr
CityTagbilaran City is the capital and only chartered city of Bohol Province, the primary air and sea entry point for the island, and the province's commercial, administrative, and transport hub.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityTalibon is a coastal municipality and one of the largest towns in northern Bohol, fronting the Danajon Bank double barrier reef and serving as a secondary commercial and transport hub.
Best: Nov–May
municipalityTrinidad is a small inland municipality in northeastern Bohol, primarily agricultural, notable for firefly watching along Abatan River tributaries and proximity to northern Bohol's cave systems.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityTubigon is a northwestern Bohol municipality and the site of one of the province's main ferry ports, linking Bohol directly to Cebu City, surrounded by mangrove coastline and small island communities.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityUbay is a first-class municipality on Bohol's eastern coast and the largest town in the island's eastern seaboard, a commercial hub with a port for inter-island routes to Leyte and Cebu.
Best: Dec–Apr
municipalityValencia is a small inland municipality in southern Bohol, in hill country southeast of Tagbilaran, primarily agricultural with no developed tourist facilities but within day-trip range of the capital.
Best: Dec–Apr