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Interesting Information for Visitors in the Davao Region

How to get to Davao City? 

Davao International Airport/Francisco Bangoy International is your local window to the wider world. 

Because of its expat population many foreign nations have their own consulates also in Davao City to provide services to their overseas citizens in the region. The airport is located in a north eastern part of the city. 

Our local congregations current main office is about 5 kilometers to the southwest of it almost on a straight line down the road. 

Where to stay in Davao City?

 You can look up fitting local accomodation during your stay in our vicinity e.g. under https://www.booking.com/davao-city ("quarter"/barangay: Buhangin). 

Security

Davao is on the island of Mindanao which was facing overall severe security situations during the last decades. The government is very much interested in securing the area and providing therefore a lot of military and police presence. Davao therefore has also more checkpoints and military presence in daily life than e.g. Manila on the Luzon island. But in general Davao is considered a place very attractive to various foreign tourists and once got famous for its successful suppression of openly visible organized crime. It was once considered one of the safest places in the nation. The surrounding areas have very differing security assesments, depending on the current situation and varying from safe to situations formerly bordering on civil war. Please check your governments travel advice for security assement of the current situation and in relation to specific locations. This can vary from region to region. Davao City itself has a different status usually than the directly surrounding regions. 

US State Department Travel alerts: 

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Tourist attractions, beaches, sight seeing 

Davao has a very diverse ethnic mix to offer, hailing back to many immigrant groups. 

The wider region, for example Davao occidental on the other side of the gulf but also many other coastal spots in the region have a budding beach and snorkeling tourism to offer. Many unique beach resorts lately sprang up and exist next to the traditional resort locations. Whale tourism, snorleling, beach tourism etc. are impressive factors to offer for exiting experiences in the gulf of Davao. 

A famous Canadian travel blogger that got the seldom honor of Philippine naturalization by the Senate is "Kulas" from BecomingFilipino. He is fluent in many local dialects and became famous for his "immersive tourism/cultural anthropology" approach of traveling in the region. You can learn a lot from watching his YouTube videos and he operates a neat resort with some of his friends on the other side of the gulf and travelled extensively througout the whole island, actually the whole nation. He once was based out of a city on the northern part of the island - Cagayan d´Oro. His channel youtube.com/@BecomingFilipino can be considered one of the most educatinal immersive travel blogs 
- although he has his own views on certain topics. 

He has a huge local following and is regularly recognized on the street when traveling. 

Not all locations he visited are recommended for the usual tourist as there are security implications to be headed. 

Not far from Davao City is the largest mountain of the Philippines, Mount Apo. Some tour guides offer alpinist tours there which are quite demanding for the participants. There are hot springs at the foot of Mt. Apo which are even used for thermal energy production in a rural power plant. 

The whole island of Mindanao on which Davao is located at its southern flank is considered the bread basket of the nation, providing it not only with a lot of rice and fruits, but also coconut, fiber and many other produce. Islam is culturally dominant in the very eastern parts of the region, but in general locally present all over the island. Some regions are working towards a semi independence for many decades. Military has to not only keep Islamic rebel forces in check but also to control communist NPA militants in the rural regions of the island, but also partly in the other rural regions of the nation. 

Still tourism, including international backpackers etc. are a growing economic factor of the island and the whole nation. 

How to get around in Davao City and the wider region? 

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