Philippine Portal

The Philippines consists of 7,107 islands with Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao as the three main, large islands. It is considered the second largest archipelago in the world. The Philippines is regarded for having the third longest coastline in the world which is almost as twice as that of the USA. The coastline length of 36, 289 km includes powder-like white sand and coarse grey to black granite sand stretches. The islands and the islets offer various water sports and recreation activities including diving, snorkeling, windsurfing, water-skiing, fishing and even diving with the blue whale in Donsol, Sorsogon.