A roughly 7-kilometre strip of white sand sitting out in North Bais Bay, within the Tañon Strait, that only appears above the waterline at low tide — nicknamed the ‘Maldives of the Philippines’ for the way the sand and shallow turquoise water read from a boat. Geographically it belongs to Manjuyod municipality, though Bais City is the usual jump-off point since that’s where the boats and dolphin-watching tours are based; the two towns have gone back and forth over who effectively runs it. A handful of native cottages sit out on the sandbar itself — no resort, no shade beyond what you bring. Most trips combine the sandbar with a dolphin and whale-watching run through Tañon Strait, since boats pass through the same stretch of water.