Baguio City Cathedral is a majestic church built on top of a hill, and is seen from many parts of the city. On the right side of the cathedral is Session Road. It is the main avenue of the city and is its commercial center. Along the main street and side streets are numerous shops, restaurants, and billiard and duckpin bowling alleys. Session Road is also the place visited by foreign tourists who wish to enjoy the city’s nightlife.

A Calesa Parked in front of Malate Church

Flowering Plants for Sale in Tagaytay

Samal Buenavista Island, originally uploaded by MeloVillareal.

Most renowned as a first class, private island resort, one can reach Buenavista Island (locally Ligid Island) by boat thru Ana Marina Resort’s pier from across Samal Island. In many cases, a speedboat brings the guests over where one can rent the whole island to oneself, and live a luxurious, exclusive stay of pampering away from civilization.

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This beautiful island is part of the locality of Santa Ana in Cagayan Valley. Palaui Island is surrounded by beautiful beaches and wide coral reefs. In this Island Paradise you can find the old Spanish-built Light House Cape Engaño. With the unspoiled white beach of Anguib, comparable to that of Boracay and El Nido Palawan, and the fine black sands all over the coast. Sta. Ana is the Game Fishing Mecca of the Philippines. It has hosted for two consecutive years the international decathlon, where athletes run through the rugged terrain of Punta Verde to Cape Engaño, then dipped in the crystal clear water of the Philippine Sea.

Agawan Festival is a yearly thanksgiving celebration in honor of “ San Isidro De Labrador “, the Spanish patron saint of farmers, one so old that not one alive today knows when and how it started, is the primary tourist attraction in Sariaya, which is being promoted by the Department of Tourism .

The ‘” Bagakays “, an identifiably “ Sariayahin “ feature of the festival, are young bamboo trees cut and bedecked with a variety of goodies that form a gently swaying beautiful and bountiful canopy along the well decorated route of the saint’s afternoon procession.

The May 15 celebration in Sariaya mirrors the townfolks generosity in spirit, their faith in the Divine Providence and their ingenuity in craft production and culinary traditions. The celebration of the Sariaya folks during feast of San Isidro Labrador makes it unique from other May 15 celebrations in the Province.

You can find this beautiful old Luneta Hotel in T. M. Kalaw Street, Manila. This old building is one of the few remaining structures that survived World War II, has been undergoing “structural rehabilitation and retrofit” since it was bought by Beaumont last August 2007.

Completed in 1918, the Luneta Hotel was designed by Spanish architect-engineer Salvador Farre, according to a study by Dean John Joseph Fernandez of the University Of Santo Tomas College Of Architecture.

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If you are planning to visit Vigan make sure to visit Calle Crisologo, one of the few remaining cobblestone made streets in the Philippines. The City of Vigan was incribed by the UNESCO World Heritage List last November 1999, this City is world-renowned for its unique and outstanding development in urban planning, landscape design and architecture.

Vigan is a relatively small city with two hearts: the recreational and shopping area around the adjacent Plaza Salcedo and Plaza Burgos in the north, and the commercial centre around the public market in the south. The mestizo district is focused along Plaridel and Mena Crisologo Streets, running south from Plaza Burgos towards the cemetery.

Manila Bay, famous for its beautiful sunset, is the best natural harbor in Eastern Asia and one of the finest in the world. The city of Manila is on the eastern shore of the bay, and on the southeast is the city of Cavite. The entrance to Manila Bay is divided by the island of Corregidor into two channels.

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Lapu-Lapu Monument in Luneta Park facing the Philippine Department of Tourism was donated by the Korean Government. Lapu-Lapu or Kaliph Pulaka was the earliest known indigenous Visayan chieftain, and he was the Datu (King) of Mactan in the Philippines. He resisted the Spanish colonization and battled with Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan where Magellan and his soldiers were killed. This larger than life bronze like statue of 16th century Lapu-Lapu at Agrifina Circle became controversial, some remarks ranging from being out of place to obscene.