Island of fire — seven volcanoes, a sunken cemetery, waterfalls cascading to the sea, and the best lanzones in the world
Camiguin is a small teardrop-shaped island in the Bohol Sea with more volcanoes per square kilometre than any other island on Earth — seven volcanic cones rise from a land area of only 238km², and three are active. The island's most otherworldly landmark is the Sunken Cemetery, where a 19th-century eruption swallowed an entire town and burial ground into the sea — visible today as a large white cross standing in the shallows above the submerged gravestones. Camiguin's waterfalls — Katibawasan (76m), Tuasan Falls, White Island's opposing view of Hibok-Hibok volcano — make it one of the most na…
Camiguin's geology makes it one of the most volcanically active islands in the Philippines — the stratovolcano Hibok-Hibok (1,320m) erupted catastrophically in 1948–53, killing over 3,000 people in one of the country's deadliest volcanic events. The Sunken Cemetery disaster occurred in 1871, when the eruption of Vulcan (now called Old Camiguin Volcano) caused the coastline to subside, sinking the old town of Catarman into the sea. Spanish colonisation brought Jesuit missions in the 16th century; the ruins of Gui-ob Church, destroyed by the 1871 eruption, stand as a moss-covered skeleton on th…