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So far, this city in the Philippines is the first to recognize gay rights within their city and create a rights desk for the gays, transgender, lesbians, and bisexuals city within their Anti-Discrimination Ordinance compare to other cities in the Philippines that still promotes discrimination among their gays transgender,lesbians and bisexual constituents – Angeles City, Pampanga.

Angeles city Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan has ordered the creation of “Gay Rights Desk” that will link to Angeles City Multi-Sectoral Consultative Council (ACMCC) wherein the gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender will also have privileges to experience the services and promotions that promote their welfare and rights in the society like to those class of people that has been discriminated unjustly in the society. According to Mayor Pamintuan, he wants his city or he wants Angeles city to be a kind of city in the Philippines that is sensitive to equal rights and welfare of all types of people in the society and that values equality and human rights.

“I want Angeles City to be the most sensitive city and local government in the Philippines to gender equality and gay rights!…… Here in Angeles, one’s right is everyone’s right. Consider Angeles City as a hallowed ground insofar as respecting and advancing the rights and welfare of all citizens are concerned,” – he said.

Consequently, spokesperson of the Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (ProGay), Goya Candelario commend and praised Mayor Pamintuan for his sensitivity among the LGBT community within his city and for recognizing the LGBT community as part of a society that contributes to the progress of a community or society.

“…our way of recognizing the role and potentials of the gay sector in the development and progress of our city.” –Mayor Pamintuan.

What is cooking in the kitchen of Pampanga Philippines why it was dubbed as “The Culinary Center of the Philippines”? Pampanga foods is indeed one of the best well cooked food in the Philippines, thus Pampanga Philippines was crown with it. Moreover, not only it is the national chef of the Philippines but it is also called “the Christmas lantern capital of the Philippines” and “Christmas capital of the Philippines”. For beautiful large Christmas lanterns are being made on it and having a festival about it every Christmas season.

Pampanga Philippines is located at Northern part of the Philippines at the heart or center of Luzon region. Pampanga Philippines was once become the main capital of the Philippines during the British invasion of Manila Philippines for two years.

Aside from delicious dishes Pampanga Philippines is well known, it is also have tourist attractions that one should visit. For example, the famous Pampanga swam, the “Candaba Swam and Wild Duck Sanctuary” at Candaba Pampanga where you could witness a multitude of different species of birds. Which some birds migrated from the neighboring countries of the Philippines.

After a sight seeing at Pampanga’s famous swam lets take a scroll and have a dive in the freezing water of another famous tourist spot in Pampanga – the Ecological semi –resort Mt. Arayat Park located at Arayat, Pampanga. Within it there is the so- called 100 steps which leads into the upper side of the mountain wherein you could see the whole view of Pampanga, as well as if you like you could tread up on the very top of the mountain. Furthermore, though this resort park is on the foot of Arayat Mountain, its waters are really freezing cold. However some tourists who visit it still enjoy swimming in it. Another famous park in Pampanga is the Bayanihan Park or formerly known as the Astro Park where it is the entrance toward another famous historical location in Pampanga, the formerly united States Air Force Base – the Clarkfield Pampanga. Within the park, there are a lot of nightclubs and hotels where lot of foreign tourist flocks.

There are a lot of parks and historical landmarks we could go here in Pampanga Philippines but wait a minute let us dine in into the kitchen of this national chef. Lets taste the Pampanga’s famous meat foods such as the pork and chicken tocinos, the longaniza (which is said to be the Philippine-styled sausage), the beef tapa, the hot dogs, the relleno, the embutido, the lechon,the bulanglang, and the sisig baboy. Let’s also taste their sweet delicacies like turones de casoy, buro, pastillas and many others. For we heard that Pampanga’s foods not only the Filipinos enjoy, but also a growing number of foreign tourists enjoy the Pampanga’ cuisine. Philippines national chef really captures every one’s tastes.

Pampanga Philippines is one of the best places in the Philippines in terms of culinary side, if you are planning to have a food trip adventure in the Philippines. Do not forget to bookmark Pampanga Philippines in your food trip adventure plan when you are planning to pay a visit to the Philippines whenever you wanted to.