Another best tourist attraction in Camiguin Island is the Sunken Cemetery. Camiguin Island is located in the Bohol Sea. It is 90 kilometers away from the north coast of Mindanao. Camiguin is defined as the island born of fire in the Philippines because of the past volcanic eruption on the said island that causes series of violent and earthquakes.
At that time, the island’s cemetery was sunk during that violent earthquake and today’s popular and historical site called “The Sunken Cemetery” where a huge cross was built as a memorial last 1982.
A volcano erupted before called Mt. Hibok-Hibok which took many people’s lives. But today Mt. Hibok-Hibok is inactive and an easy day climb for mountaineers.
The best time to visit Camiguin Island is on 3rd week of October as they will celebrate The Camiguin Island Lanzones Festival. It’s a long week celebration where you can witness a beauty contest to crown Miss Camiguin Island. We visited Camiguin Island on holy week this year 2018 and a lot of tourists flocked at the Sunken Cemetery.
How To Get To Camiguin Island
We booked for Camiguin Tour via Travel Hugger, It’s a Davao based travel agency. From Manila or Cebu, there is a direct flight to Cagayan de Oro City and you take a short ferry ride from there. Below is the Ferry Schedule to Camiguin Island.
– From Bohol to Camiguin on Paras Sea Cat
– From Bohol (Jagna) a ferry leaves for Camiguin at 1.30pm
– From Camiguin a ferry leaves for Bohol at 11 am
From Cagayan De Oro you have two ferry choices.
– Paras Sea Cat departs daily to Camiguin Island at 8.30 am
– Paras Sea Cat leaves Camiguin at 4 pm
– Ferries leave Balingoan from as early as 6 am.
– Paras Sea Kat takes about 45 mins, ferries at Balingoan take just over an hour.
To make your travel very easy, you can contact the Philippine tourism board for tourist information. The official Camiguin Island website is http://www.camiguin.gov.ph.
You can contact them by visiting this link – http://www.camiguin.gov.ph/contact_us.html.
