The Philippines is made up of 7,641 islands; of these, only around 2,000 are inhabited. Interestingly, it has the seventh-highest number of islands in the world, after Sweden, Finland, Norway, Canada, Indonesia, and Australia. The country has an area of approximately 300,000 square kilometres and a population of around 117.7 million people. It ranks as the 14th most populous country globally. Before my three-week trip to the Philippines earlier this year, I had no idea about these facts, and I couldn’t name a single island. In this post, I’m not going to share the exact itinerary that I followed; instead, I’m going to describe the one I would have followed…