Bonifacio is a small limestone clifftop citadel town at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not the skyscraper business district in Manila that shares the name. Get that wrong and you’ll plan the wrong trip entirely. The real one is compact enough that the old town takes a day, tops, so two days here means the town plus exactly one real add-on: the boat trip out to the Lavezzi Islands, or a beach if the sea won’t cooperate.

Three days in Bonifacio is not three days circling the same clifftop lanes. The old town, the actual limestone citadel at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not the office district that shares the name in Manila, takes a day at most on foot. The other two days are what make this itinerary worth following: a full day on the water out to the Lavezzi Islands, and a third day that pushes past the ramparts entirely, to a beach, to Porto-Vecchio, or across the strait to Sardinia.

Bonifacio is a small limestone clifftop citadel town at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not the business district in Manila that happens to share the name. Four days is enough to do the old town properly and still push outward twice: a boat trip, a beach, and a fourth day that either goes deeper into southern Corsica or crosses the strait to Sardinia. Keep the honest scale in mind, the town itself is still only 1-2 days; days 3 and 4 are genuine add-ons, not padding to justify the itinerary length.

Bonifacio is a small limestone clifftop citadel town at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not the business district of the same name in Manila. Five days is more time than the old town itself needs, so this plan spends it honestly: one day in the Haute Ville, one on the water, one on a beach, then two genuine add-on days, a drive into southern Corsica and a ferry across to Sardinia.

Bonifacio is a small limestone clifftop citadel town at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not Bonifacio Global City, the Manila business district that shares nothing but the name. Six days is more than the old town itself needs, it’s honestly still a 1-2 day stop, so this itinerary spends the other four days on the actual reasons to stay this long: the Lavezzi boat trip, a beach day, a full day into southern Corsica by car, and a Sardinia ferry crossing that shorter trips usually have to skip.

Bonifacio is a small limestone clifftop citadel town at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not Bonifacio Global City, the Manila business district that shares nothing but the name. Seven days is a genuine week-long southern-Corsica loop built around this town, not seven days spent inside one small old town; the Haute Ville itself is still an honest 1-2 day stop. Everything past day 2 is a car-and-ferry tour of the wider region, beaches, southern Corsica by road, a Sardinia crossing, and a wine-and-prehistory day inland, with a final day left open to repeat whichever piece of it you liked best.

Bonifacio is a small, dramatic limestone-clifftop citadel town at the southern tip of Corsica, France, not Bonifacio Global City, the Manila financial district that shares the name and nothing else. The old town is a half-day-to-a-day walk, so treat this Bonifacio as a 1-2 day stop inside a longer Corsica trip, built around one boat trip to the sea caves or the Lavezzi Islands, a beach, and maybe a Sardinia day trip.