Dinagat Islands

Dinagat Islands sits at the northern tip of Mindanao, a province of forested limestone islets, freshwater lakes and quiet coastal villages facing the Pacific. It has the lagoons and white sand of better-known destinations without the crowds, and a mountain interior almost nobody outside the province has seen. Most visitors reach it from Surigao City and stay two or three days — long enough for a sea day, an inland day, and a sunset worth staying up for.

What people come for

• Island hopping across two distinct groups — Libjo in the north, Basilisa in the south
• Bababu Lake, a hidden freshwater lake reached by a forty-five minute forest hike
• An inland heritage circuit that no other operator on the island currently sells
• Limestone rock formations and shallow reef within a short boat ride of the jump-off
• Ridge-top dwarf forest with views to the Pacific on one side and the Surigao Strait on the other
• Sunsets from the mountain above Basilisa, over the whole archipelago