Samar Island Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island in the Philippines
About Samar Island
With an area of approximately13,400km(5,200sqmi), Samar is the third largest island of the Philippines, afterMindanaoandLuzon. Most of Samar Island is rainforest and about a third of the island is protected by the Philippine government, as part of the Samar Island National Park. There are a lots of caves in the mountains forming the island's interior, and the province ofEastern Samarhas many beaches Samar was the first island of the Philippines to be sighted by Europeans. Ferdinand Magellan, on thefirst circumnavigation of the world, realized that he had arrived on another archipelago since his expedition left theMariana Islands, and sighted an island he named first as SanLázaro. Magellan did not land anywhere on the island, but on Homonhon off what is now the town ofGuiuan. The present na
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