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A Philippine travel guide to Dumaguete, Siquijor & Batad

Skip the usual beach-hopping circuit — these two joiner tours pair a laid-back university city and a "mystical" island in the south with a completely different world: the centuries-old rice terraces of the Cordillera highlands up north.

Dumaguete × Siquijor Escapade

Dumaguete is known as the "City of Gentle People" — a relaxed university town on Negros Oriental's coast, and the usual jump-off point for Siquijor, the island long associated with local healers and folklore, now better known for turquoise water and waterfalls.

Highlights

• Siquijor's Cambugahay Falls — multi-tiered turquoise pools with a rope swing.
• Island-hopping around Siquijor's coastline and sandbars.
• Dumaguete's laid-back boulevard, seafront dining, and easy pace.

Batad, Ifugao

Batad is home to one of the most photographed sections of the Ifugao Rice Terraces — a natural amphitheater of terraces carved into the mountainside, reachable only on foot from the nearest road. It's a short but immersive trip that trades beaches for cool mountain air and centuries of Ifugao heritage.

Highlights

• The amphitheater view of the Batad terraces — a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• A trek down to Tappiya Falls through the terraces.
• Immersion in Ifugao village life, well off the more crowded Banaue viewpoints.

Which one should you join first?

If you want turquoise water, waterfalls, and a relaxed beach-town pace, start with Dumaguete × Siquijor. If you'd rather trade sand for mountain air and centuries-old terraces, Batad's shorter 2D1N format makes it an easy long-weekend trip. Either way, both are land-only joiner tours — you book your own flight, and we handle the rest from the moment you land.