Cebu Ocean Park

This guide to Cebu Ocean Park opens with its signature dare, a cage dive alongside a saltwater crocodile, then turns to what lies beneath the whole district: South Road Properties, land that engineers built out of the Mactan Channel over more than a decade of dredging starting in the late 1980s. It follows the park from groundbreaking through delayed construction to its August 2019 opening, tracking a national record it claimed for its lagoon. Walk the curved underwater tunnel and sharks and rays glide directly overhead, held back by nothing thicker than acrylic.