Mint Island is the 10th largest island in the Philippines, the most beautiful of more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines, and also a paradise for world divers. There are fantastic chocolate hills, the world's smallest mini-macaques, 3,000-foot-drop undersea cliffs, lovely dolphins. Seventy kilometers from Cebu Mactan Island, it is a coral island. The crushed coral beaches washed by the sea are not as fine as flour, but they are still cool even in the hot sun. The beach is white and snow-white, reflecting the sea water in clear layers. Nearby, it is shallow green, and far away, it is deep blue.