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Laguna Philippines

What has this province in the Philippines stand out among the provinces of the Philippines? Of course, most Filipinos who have known Laguna Philippines already knew why. Of course it is not only Dr.Rizal’s home province located, but of course Laguna Philippines is well known for its Hot Springs and beautiful resorts which has been due to it is within Laguna De Bay- the largest lake at the Philippines at the borders of two dormant mysteriously labeled mountains/volcanoes – the Mt.Makiling and Mt. Banahaw.

Mt. Makiling is known for its hot springs resorts which are all located at its slopes and also labeled as mysterious mountain like Mt. Banahaw. Mt.Makiling is located between Calamba Laguna and Los Banos Laguna. Mt.Makiling is known for the godess residing in the mountain which of course the godess Maria Makiling.It can be accessed through South Luzon Expressway via Maharlika Highway. The famous Pagsanjan Falls can also be found at the hillsides. Pagsanjan Falls is formerly known as the Magdapio Falls. However, aside from Pagsanjan Falls, there is another Falls at Laguna Philippines, that is the Buriwisan Falls at Siniloan Laguna Philippines, however it not accessible via Maharlika highway.

And because it is Lake Province, it boasts of some lakes surrounding it, one of this Lake is the Crocodile Lake at Los Banos Laguna where of course crocodiles could be seen. There are other lakes which are collectively called “Seven Lakes”, namely Sampaloc Lake, Lake Bunot, Lake Calibato, Lake Pandin, Lake Yambo, Lake Palakpakin, and lake Muhikap. These lakes could also be accessed through South Luzon Expressway via Maharlika highway.

Three of Laguna Philippines famous resorts are Villa Escudero Resort which is located at San Pablo City Laguna Philippines, Hidden Valley Springs which is located at Alamino Calaun Laguna Philippines, and Lagos de Sol Resort which is located at Lake Caliraya, Cavinti Laguna Philippines. However, Hidden Valley Springs is the most famous of its resorts due to Hidden Valley Springs truly hot spring because it is naturally-made.

Aside from beautiful and bountiful resorts and hot springs, Laguna Province is rich of bamboos, soft hardwoods and rattan on its forest, which is of course an evidence of Laguna Philippines’“lake” character and nature. Thus, a bamboo industry could be aspiring for it, however, bamboo is not its main industry rather it is wood carvings and paper Mache.

Futhermore, in terms of historical interest, not only the Rizal Shrine at Calamba Laguna is amazingly interesting, but also the Underground Cemetary at Nagcarlan Laguna, the Homma-Yamashita Shrine at Los Banos Laguna, the Japanese Garden at Cavinti Laguna, the Baker Hall at Los Banos Laguna, the Ancestral houses and town plaza at Binan and Pila Laguna, and other historical interest.

Moreover, did you know that the oldest crematorium in the Philippines is located at Laguna Philippines? This oldest crematorium is located at Pila Laguna Philippines.

There are also numerous churches you could see at Laguna, of course one of these is the St. John The Baptist Church where Dr. Jose P. Rizal was said to be baptized.

The Island Garden City of Samal Island Philippines

The Samal Island Philippines is also another white sand island resort beach in the Philippines, it seems the Philippine archipelago have a lot of white sand beach to offer its tourists both local and foreigners. But what is the difference of this another island beach resort from another similar beaches in the Philippines?

The Samal Island Philippines is located at the province of Davao Del Norte Philippines. It is so called Island Garden City of Samal which makes it so interesting why it was called this way. In our trip to Samal Island Philippines we will discover this interesting titled it was crown of. Come on lets discover Samal Island Philippines what it offer us to us. Samal Island Philippines has a semi-acronym calling for it which is “IGaCoS”. Look a weird calling, but IGaCoS stands for Island Garden City of Samal. What an interesting calling, is not it?

It was so called to be the Island Garden City of Samal because of its Paradise like settings and ambience as well as its white sand beach, crystal clear waters and caves.

By the way, how do we could get into Samal island Philippines? Of course like any island travels us could either go by air or by water? So if you are from Manila Philippines, get an airline ticket to Davao city Philippines, and from Davao city Philippines take a boat ride into the Samal Island.

Upon arriving at this island, let’s go first to its eco-tourism parks where we could see why it was called Island Garden City. Our first stop is at Samal Island Mariculture Park. This park in Samal Island is the first industrial park on sea at the Philippines. It is located at sitio Leydao Samal.It has a large fish cage where you could see of fish swimming within this large cage. Similarly to this is the Audanao Fish Sanctuary located at Barangay Aundanao Samal. So much of a fishy adventure on this island lets now go the major tourist attractions this Island Garden City boast of, as well as to its Garden side why it was called Island garden.

After spending our time watching fish swims at Mariculture Park lets go the caves of the Talikud Island where we could see many bats hangings upon it. Samal Island Philippine have a large population of bats, actually Samal Island have annual Bat festival. Before we pass by at the Talikud Island, we saw a mangroves being planted and cultured on soil, this they call Mangrovetum mangrove forest site. Beside this mangrove forest site is the Mamacao Springs where there is a small falls in it wherein we could take a refreshing bath.

After an island hopping to this island, we could enjoy and relax to its peaceful and relaxing number of beach resorts. One of the famous peaceful beach resort in this Island Garden City is the Aguinaldo Pearl Farm Beach Resort where it is said to be the most private and peaceful resorts at Samal Island Philippines.