Ian Sermonia and Mike Medina, high school friends from Manila, set out in 2013 to open a surf resort ... up in Siargao, Bonono spent his days on a stretch of white sand called Big Wish Beach ...
On an early June morning off the southeastern shore of Siargao, pro surfer Ikit Agudo ... s team devoted more than a year to restoring the resort. “If we had given up,” says Hervé Lampert ...
Siargao’s global ... For example, the resort hires locals, pays fair wages, gives discounts to guests who volunteer on the island, champions environmental protection and partners with local charities ...