{"id":30948,"date":"2018-07-13T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=30948"},"modified":"2022-08-16T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:19:01","slug":"palawan-cebu-among-worlds-best-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/palawan-cebu-among-worlds-best-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Palawan, Cebu Among World&#8217;s Best Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Philippines, we have 7,641 islands blessed with the gleaming beauty of the seas, and fascinating mountain peaks ready to captivate anyone&#8217;s heart any time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Cebu and Palawan in the Visayas are equally enchanting places that recently made it to\u00a0<em>Travel + Leisure<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0World\u2019s Best Islands in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Cebu is in rank 8, while Palawan is in rank 6, topping Waiheke in New Zealand, Maldives, Lombok, Bali, and Java in Indonesia respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Cebu is known for having various resorts that offer the best diving experience in the Philippines,\u00a0Cebu prides itself on having <em>butandings<\/em> or whale sharks roaming in the seas of Oslob. (READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2017\/05\/18\/swim-with-the-whale-sharks-in-oslob-cebu\/\">Swim with the whale sharks in Oslob, Cebu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To see more of Philippine Primer&#8217;s write-up on Cebu, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/category\/location\/cebu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Palawan, the largest province in the country, is known for caves and wreck diving. <em>El Nido, Coron<\/em>, and <em>Puerto Princesa <\/em>are few of the tourists&#8217; favorite spot. (READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/feature\/2016\/12\/11\/an-enchanting-paradise-coron-palawan\/\">An enchanting paradise: Coron, Palawan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To see more of Philippine Primer&#8217;s write-up on Palawan, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/category\/location\/palawan\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30965\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/kayangan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Annually, Travel + Leisure magazine in partnership with Marketing and Research Resources, Inc., gather tourists&#8217; review on the sites they have seen around the world to weigh in the islands that should be included in their list.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/worlds-best\/islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travelandleisure.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cebu and Palawan are in Travel + Leisure magazine&#8217;s &#8217;15 Best Islands in The World&#8217; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,1072,85,88],"class_list":["post-30948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-adventure","tag-cebu","tag-palawan","tag-travel"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/kayangan-e1531447865942.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30948"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66102,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30948\/revisions\/66102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}