Boracay is a small island, but it offers a surprising variety of scenery which can be explored easily by bicycle, motorbike, trekking or renting tricycles. The northern end of the island is quite mountainous with some steep roads, plateaus and forest. Central Boracay, where most of the resorts are located and all other activities take place, is narrow and flat. The southern end of Boracay is hilly and ideal for hiking expeditions or mountain-bike tours. A small choice of Boracay’s attractions:

Mount Luho is the highest elevation on Boracay Island with 100 meters above sea level. For the uninitiated, it can be an excruciating ascent going there, but definitely worth the view. Mount Luho can also be reached by motorbike or bicycle. Once up there, a little kiosk serves cold water and soft drinks and one can take a rest in one of the hammocks between the trees, overlooking the central and southern part of Boracay.

The Bat Caves are on the north East coast of Yapak. The cave is the home of cave bats and the surrounding trees is the home of the giant fruit bats with a wingspan of up to four feet. The fruit bats fly regularly at twilight to their nocturnal hunt for food. Naturalists, photographers, spelunkers and brave souls willing to bear the intense stench in the cave can hire local guides, usually young children from the village, to lead them through the jungle-paths to the caves. Environmentalists, however, rather leave the fruit bats to their daytime sleep and wait for the sunset at the White Beach as hundreds, sometimes thousands, of bats take their nocturnal flight right over their heads.

Balinghai Beach is a small cove north of the White Beach. It’s scenery and beauty makes it an ideal place for a half day beach and snorkelling excursion. The resort looking over Balinghai Beach has created a little coral garden.