El Nido in 3 days

A narrow entrance between limestone walls opens onto a turquoise lagoon about 600 metres long, so shallow in places it glows.

An enclosed pool entered through a narrow gap by kayak or swimming, with emerald water, sheer walls and a cave on one side.

A white-sand beach hidden from the sea by a wall of rock; you slip through a narrow passage to a shallow bay under fig-covered cliffs.

A small cove ringed by cliffs and invisible from the sea, reached by swimming through a gap about a metre wide under the rock.

A 35-metre underwater tunnel on the north side of Dilumacad, a dive between 12 and 6 metres deep with shrimps and squirrelfish.

A west-facing beach south of the town with loungers for the sunset, and a 750-metre zip line across to Depeldet islet.

An hour up the sharp limestone above town on cables, rungs and bridges, harness provided, to a platform over Bacuit Bay.

Four kilometres of golden sand and coconut palms north of the town, on the open sea, with real waves and currents in places.