Bohol, just across from Cebu, is best-known for its curiously bumpy Chocolate Hills landscape. It is becoming more popular as the region’s best beach destination, with superb white sand and some world class diving sites, tho’ mostly on the adjacent little island of Panglao. The 800m long, picturesque Alona Beach, with plenty of accommodation, restaurants and dive centres, is for action men [and women], though it has sea grass that conceals sea urchins, so sand shoes are useful.
The 2km of unspoiled Doljo Beach is a more secluded, less developed, shallow water option, while Cabilao Island on the west coast of Bohol has some splendid diving sites and exceptionally clear water. And don’t forget a trip to see the 1,000 30m high chocolate hills in Bohol’s centre! The best time is indefinable; it may rain briefly every day, it may not… A typhoon may happen along…but March-May is likely to be driest if you must have a guesstimate. ~Best Beaches in the Philippines

BEACHES IN THE PHILIPPINES – Alona Beach, Panglao, Bohol