FREE PLANNING RESOURCES · ENGLISH EDITIONS
Turn a Philippines travel idea into a plan you can use. Start with our new Leyte and Samar trip starter, choose a few experiences that matter to you, and download the worksheets to make the trip your own.
Read the Leyte and Samar guide
NEW · FREE 22-PAGE EBOOK · OCTOBER 2026
Get Eastern Visayas Uncovered
Plan Leyte, Samar and Biliran with a revised regional guide, local research prompts, flexible trip ideas and printable budget, route and offline worksheets. This edition credits Maryjane Gadin’s partial 2016 draft and adds new planning content checked against current official sources.
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Philippines Planning Pack
Choose your trip focus, sketch three flexible days, build a budget, record details to verify, and prepare a food and culture question list.
English printable PDF for handwriting. It has blank worksheets; it is not an interactive form or a fixed itinerary.
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Leyte and Samar Trip Checklist
A lightweight checklist for choosing a base, checking your transport, noting a budget and keeping practical questions together before you travel.
English text file. Open it with a text app, add your own notes and save a copy for offline reading.
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Begin with Leyte and Samar
The Eastern Visayas trip starter offers a simple way to organize a visit around food, culture, city stories or the coast. Choose one main area, leave time for transfers and keep something optional. The worksheets help you compare your own choices instead of packing every possible stop into one day.
Use current local sources to confirm the details that will shape your trip. The official Eastern Visayas tourism directory and Samar provincial website are useful starting points for local information. Check schedules, access and prices with the actual operator or host before booking.
Explore stories from our archive
Use these older features for background and inspiration. Their travel details describe earlier visits and may have changed.
Tacloban: a historical city story
John’s account of a December 2013 visit after Typhoon Haiyan records people, relief efforts and the city’s early rebuilding. Read it as a historical account, then use current local information to plan today’s visit.
Read the Tacloban archive storySouthern Leyte and Panaon Island
Explore a feature from the archive about Panaon Island and Southern Leyte. Collect the places and questions that interest you, then verify current access and services.
Explore the Panaon Island featureBrowse all Philippines stories and videos
Planning another part of Asia?
Our free Penang trip planner creates editable notes you can download. The free Penang workbook is a separate, 12-page English printable PDF, with day plans, food cards and budget worksheets. You can also watch the Penang stories before choosing an experience.
About the new resources: planning prompts and worksheets by ExploreTraveler, inspired by Maryjane Gadin’s partial Eastern Visayas Uncovered draft supplied in 2016. The new 22-page planning edition is available above. It builds on a recovered partial draft rather than presenting a restored original manuscript. Downloaded files can be read offline; linked websites and videos need internet.