Bohol Destinations: Beach Islands, Interior Highlands, and the East Coast

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54 places across Bohol Province

Alicia: Bohol's City of Cloudsmunicipality

Alicia: Bohol's City of Clouds

Alicia 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

Anda: Bohol's Quiet Beach Peninsulamunicipality

Anda: Bohol's Quiet Beach Peninsula

Anda 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

Antequera: Bohol's Sunday Basket Market Townmunicipality

Antequera: Bohol's Sunday Basket Market Town

Antequera 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

Baclayon: Bohol's Oldest Stone Church Townmunicipality

Baclayon: Bohol's Oldest Stone Church Town

Baclayon, 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

Balicasag Island: Bohol's Premier Wall Dive SiteIsland

Balicasag Island: Bohol's Premier Wall Dive Site

Balicasag 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

Balilihan: Farmland at the Edge of Rajah Sikatunamunicipality

Balilihan: Farmland at the Edge of Rajah Sikatuna

Balilihan 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

Bien Unido: Access Point to the Danajon Bankmunicipality

Bien Unido: Access Point to the Danajon Bank

Bien 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

Cabilao Island: Bohol's Hammerhead Shark SeasonIsland

Cabilao Island: Bohol's Hammerhead Shark Season

Cabilao 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

Calape: A Small Port Facing Cebumunicipality

Calape: A Small Port Facing Cebu

Calape 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

Carmen: Gateway to the Chocolate Hillsmunicipality

Carmen: Gateway to the Chocolate Hills

Carmen 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

Catigbianmunicipality

Catigbian

Catigbian 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

Corella: Home of the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuarymunicipality

Corella: Home of the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary

Corella 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

Cortesmunicipality

Cortes

Cortes 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

Dagohoymunicipality

Dagohoy

Dagohoy 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

Danao: Bohol's Highland Adventure Countrymunicipality

Danao: Bohol's Highland Adventure Country

Danao 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

Dauis: The Miraculous Well and Panglao's Gatewaymunicipality

Dauis: The Miraculous Well and Panglao's Gateway

Dauis 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

Dimiaomunicipality

Dimiao

Dimiao 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

Inabanga: River Mouth and Northern Transit Pointmunicipality

Inabanga: River Mouth and Northern Transit Point

Inabanga 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

Jagna: Bohol's Southern Ferry Gatewaymunicipality

Jagna: Bohol's Southern Ferry Gateway

Jagna 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

Lapinig IslandIsland

Lapinig Island

Lapinig 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

Lilamunicipality

Lila

Lila 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

Loay: River Mouth Below the Loboc Cruisemunicipality

Loay: River Mouth Below the Loboc Cruise

Loay 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

Loon: Home to Bohol's Grandest Colonial Churchmunicipality

Loon: Home to Bohol's Grandest Colonial Church

Loon 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

Mabini: Bohol's Uncrowded Eastern Reef Coastmunicipality

Mabini: Bohol's Uncrowded Eastern Reef Coast

Mabini 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

Maribojoc: Punta Cruz Watchtower on the Cebu Straitmunicipality

Maribojoc: Punta Cruz Watchtower on the Cebu Strait

Maribojoc 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

Panglao Island: Bohol's Beach and Dive CoastIsland

Panglao Island: Bohol's Beach and Dive Coast

Panglao 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

Panglao: Bohol's Busiest Beach and Dive Municipalitymunicipality

Panglao: Bohol's Busiest Beach and Dive Municipality

Panglao 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

Pilarmunicipality

Pilar

Pilar 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

Tubigon: Bohol's Short Ferry Crossing to Cebumunicipality

Tubigon: Bohol's Short Ferry Crossing to Cebu

Tubigon 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

Valencia: Tagbilaran's Quiet Hill-Country Backyardmunicipality

Valencia: Tagbilaran's Quiet Hill-Country Backyard

Valencia 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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where should I base myself in Bohol?
Panglao (Alona Beach area) for diving, beaches, and quick access to Balicasag; Tagbilaran City for the ferry port, the airport, and a more local feel. Many visitors split: a Tagbilaran night on arrival, then move to Panglao. If you plan to do the east coast at Anda, it is easier as a base in itself rather than a day trip from Panglao.
Which destinations are worth the travel time?
Balicasag is worth it for divers and snorkellers — one of the best sites in the Philippines. Anda is worth it for those who find Alona too busy — quiet beaches, good snorkelling, no crowds. The Chocolate Hills are worth the half-day drive; the view does not look like photographs until you understand the scale.
Can I cover Panglao and the interior in one day?
You can do the countryside circuit — Chocolate Hills, tarsier sanctuary, Loboc River, Blood Compact site — in one long day from Panglao. It's rushed. Two days is better: one for the interior, one for Balicasag. The firefly watching on the Abatan runs from dusk and pairs naturally with the Loboc day.