Monday, December 27, 2010

Boracay Island



Boracay is an island of the Philippines located approximately 315 km (200 miles) south of Manila and 2 km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Phillipines. In 1990, it was voted by the BMW Topical Beach Handbook as one of the bets tropical beach in the world and again in 1996 by Britsh publication TV Quick as the world’s number one tropical beach.

The island comprises the barangays of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak ( 3 of the 17 barangays which make up the municipality of Malay), and is under  the administrative control of the Philippines Tourism Authority in coordination with the Provincial Government of Aklan.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Hundred Island


The Hundred Island National Park (Pangasinan: Kapulo-pulo or Taytay-Bakes) is in the province of Pangasinan in northern Philippines. It is located in Alaminos City, Pangasinan. The islands (124 at low tide and 123 at high tide) are scattered along Lingayen Gulf and cover 18.44 square kilometers (4,557 acres). They believe to be about two million years old. Only three of them have been developed for tourists: Gobernor Island, Quezon Island, and Children’s Island. The islands are actually ancient corals that extend weel inland, in an area previously comprising the seabed “mushroom” –like shapes of some of the islands have been caused by the eroding action of sea waves.