Guimaras Island - Philippines

Guimaras Island is famous for its mangoes. It is said to grow the sweetest mangoes in the world! Guimaras is so famous proud of its famous sweet mangoes that it explicitly prohibits the import of any other mango product from outside of the island, to protect its own mango crop from disease and genetic degradation. The local people are also blessed with among the most beautiful beaches in Visayas. Laregely undiscovered, many of the beaches are not heavily populated, especially by foreigners, and thus are still very affordable and pleasant places to relax or to go snorkelling and fish spotting.