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I would like to spend some time in the Philippines. I have some Filipino friends here and we have been invited to travel with them when they are back home - I think it would be really interesting to travel with locals.

Always a good move, there's so much here to see and the tourist trail tends to ignore much of it. Leyte the feature of my post for instance is one of the nicest under visited places I have been to, it is slowly coming onto the radar but hopefully it won't loose its feel.

Truth is tourism is dying here, much is built and funded by foreigners and many have thrown in the towel, we just hope things can recover to a reasonable level once this shit show is over.