PHILIPPINES | 7,000 Islands of Untouched Wilderness Nobody Talks About | 4K Travel Documentary

Philippines travel documentary: underground rivers, Taal volcano, Bajau sea nomads, Ifugao rice terraces, Tubbataha Reef & the world's richest marine biodiversity. 4K. The Philippines isn't a beach destination. It's 7,641 islands sitting at the apex of the Coral Triangle — the most biodiverse marine region on earth. A country where farmers plant crops in the shadow of active volcanoes, where an indigenous people have evolved larger spleens from centuries of free-diving, and where rice terraces older than the Roman Empire are still harvested by hand every year. In this documentary, we go inside the Puerto Princesa Underground River — 8.5 kilometers of navigable cavern beneath a mountain in Palawan. We stand at the edge of Taal Lake and look at a volcano, inside an island, inside a lake. We dive Balicasag and Tubbataha Reef, two of the last intact reef systems on the planet. And we trace the story of the Bajau people — the Sea Nomads whose biology has been rewritten by the ocean. This is the Philippines almost nobody talks about. If this kind of content helps you understand the world better, consider subscribing. Every subscriber helps us keep exploring and producing better documentaries. Tell us in the comments which moment in this video stayed with you longest? Watch this video next:    • CANADA | Living Off the Grid Where Winter ...