First Westerner to the Philippines?

[LabanTayo]

Originally Posted by MABAGANI

Here's one more missed by the museum curatorial staff -
"1521 Magellan is the first Westerner to land in the Philippines"
I didn't know cowboys existed in the 16th century...lolz

As a matter of fact, Ferdinand Megellan was not the first European to explore the archipelago, but the first to circumnavigate the world, the Portuguese didn't complete his return voyage to Spain because he was killed by the sword on Mactan island in the battle against Lapu Lapu and his warriors.

wasnt there another european that visited the indo/philippine archapelego centuries before magellan?
did marco polo ever make it there?