Iligan City is known as the City of Majestic Waterfalls. The city boasts a total of 23 waterfalls in its vicinity, making it one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Mindanao, both for the backpackers and tourists.

How to Get Here

Iligan City is accessible from the capital – Manila by air and is most convenient through Laguindingan Airport. There are regular daily flights from Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, and Clark. Flight time from Manila to Laguindingan Airport is approximately one hour and 20 minutes.

Then, from Laguindingan Airport, you can get a taxi (to take you direct to Iligan), or get a taxi to drop you off at Laguindingan Bus Terminal. There are buses such as Rural Transit and Super 5 and other means of transportation are also regularly traveling back and forth from Cagayan de Oro passing through Laguindingan Bus Terminal. There you can find buses going to Iligan which is way cheaper than taxi ranging from Php85- Php130. Travel time from Laguindingan to Iligan is approximately one hour.

Where to Stay

There are a lot of accommodation options to consider when in Iligan. However, there are no big fancy hotels just like in the metro. Most are simple inns and lodging houses which are usually a night-stay for most foreign businessmen and development workers in the city. Most recommended are Go Hotels (just recently opened last January 2019), Homestay Ilihan, The Loft Hotel and Fortune Suites. Click on the pins to learn more.

Where to Eat

Iligan is not only known to its majestic waterfalls, but also to savory and authentic local foods and restaurant that everyone will surely love.
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Where to go

Iligan City is known as the City of Majestic Waterfalls. The city boasts a total of 23 waterfalls in its vicinity, making it one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Mindanao, both for the backpackers and tourist. The name Iligan is derived from the Higaonon word “Ilijan” meant as “fortress of defense”, being the site of frequent invasion attacks in bygone eras. Sea dwellers initially settled in the area before it was invaded by Visayan migrants from the island of Panglao in the 16th century, making Iligan one of the earliest Christian settlements in Mindanao.

To guide you get around the city, here’s an interactive map showing three (3) options to travel best–color blue (North tour), green (South Tour), and yellow (downtown tour).