Britania Islands

San Agustin, Surigao del Sur, CARAGA

Twenty-four small islands and islets scattered across a lagoon in San Agustin — the collective effect of limestone outcrops, sandbars, and reef channels looks more like Palawan than Mindanao. Island-hopping by banka threads between them in a half-day, with stops for snorkelling, sandbar walking, and watching the light change on the limestone faces. Infrastructure is deliberately minimal; most visitors camp on the beach under a tarp, which is entirely the point.

📸 Raissa QD (CC BY 2.0), Wolfgang Hägele (CC BY-SA 4.0), Patrick Poculan (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

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