Catanduanes has earned its reputation as the Abaca Capital of the Philippines (an official declaration by law, the Republic Act No. 11700), and it’s easy to see why.

You can’t discuss Catanduanes’s landscapes without eventually bringing up Binurong Point. This astonishing piece of natural architecture had put the province on the traveler’s map, and it ...

ONE after the other, the rumbling sound of the waves remained on a continuous loop. Each time, a blast of sea water splashes violently toward the natural pool where our group was dipped soothingly.

A glossy EZ MAP-travel brochure of Catanduanes represents a P300,000 investment of the provincial government. Here you have a detailed map of the capital of Virac, ...