Philippines Travel Podcast with Miguel Santos

The show treats the Philippines as somewhere to live in, not simply to fly over. Travelling there means moving between islands that number 7,641 according to the national mapping authority, through mountains and narrow coastal lowlands, and across a tropical marine climate shaped by two monsoons. The host settles in one place and learns it before moving somewhere connected to it. The range includes Manila, Cebu City, Davao, and the less obvious city of Antipolo, along with the farmland concentrations of Luzon and the Visayan islands. He also spends time in Zamboanga and Cagayan de Oro, where the population pattern follows good farmland rather than the tourist map. The show unfolds with the Philippine calendar: the northeast monsoon runs from November to April and the southwest monsoon from May to October, so the host returns to places he has already visited to see how daily life changes with the season. A place is not covered once and finished; it is revisited until kn