The Philippines has become a tourist destination for the new rich class of Chinese as well as a shopping destination . You see a lot of them in tour groups on both Cebu and Bohol , Philippines on the nice resorts there .Cebu has had a International Airport for a while and Bohol just opened one this last year. While there last in 2017 ,we normally spend most of our time at my wife's family home that we had remodeled . This trip we spent a couple of days at one of the nice resorts for a family function , perfect oppertunity to hit a non trashed beach. Most public beaches are so trashy it is really hard to detect. While detecting the hotel beach area I had lots of the Chinese onlookers trying to figure out what I was doing. Every so often I would hold up some coins , bottle caps what ever I found for them to see . I am sure they have never seen a detector before , and probably found it amusing that a American would be looking for dirty coins. While they probably found it funny I was really hoping to find some of that fancy gold jewelry they love to show off over there.David, I also get many Chinese tourists want to check it out.
